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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...social justice. High quality reading instruction (comprising teaching strategies to promote word recognition, comprehension and decoding skills) is crucial for children to learn to ‘crack’ the alphabetic code, but instruction alone is not enough – children need to be able to read, and they need to want to read. Thus, the pedagogies, classroom practices and educator...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...social and academic backgrounds). This means that the perspectives you will meet in this course are largely those of contemporary Western musicology. It is worth noting that ‘musicology’ can be a contentious term, because it carries the baggage of its narrow tradition. Some scholars who work on research in music do not wish to be known as musicologists. It also has...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...Social Care courses and qualifications....Session 1: Introduction: Introduction - We are all aware of improvements in the United Kingdom (UK) population’s life expectancy. Less well recognised is that the life expectancy of people with learning disabilities has also improved and over half are now aged over forty-five. The majority of those with learning disabilities...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...social isolation, and I just found it wonderfully therapeutic to escape into this world in this book with such colourful characters and exciting action. SARA HASLAM I’m Sara Haslam, one of the authors of this course. And I fell in love with books at a very young age. The Grey King, by Susan Cooper, is part of a fantasy sequence of five novels called The Dark Is Rising,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...social progress. If students at Camrbidge and Oxford had been getting FSM when they were younger, this could prove that those two universities were meeting targets to extend their student base to a wider range of backgrounds. That's the theory. But, for Cambridge, this was problematic. That University explained why in a statement for Newsnight: A spokesman for the...
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Article 5 mins
An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...social care and education practitioners to provide holistic support services Hope is unique in the support it provides to CYP living in the West of England experiencing a family health crisis from 11 – 18 years from the point of diagnosis. Support is provided through a number of different media, including youth sessions, online support and a youth advocacy programme....
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Article 15 mins
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...social status, ability or economic means is pivotal and challenging in a developing country where gender, ethnic and social discrimination are still a major issue. [Photo of outside] [Photo of entrance] [Photo of the sign] [Photo of some of the equipment] [Photo of sewing machine] When I met the team in 2022 and explored avenues for collaborations between FabLab...
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Article 5 mins
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Education & Development

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

...social responsibility At the bottom of the list you'll find a selection of badged courses. These courses take 24 hours to complete and provide a free digital badge on completion which you can download, display and share as a mark of your achievement. The badges are not accredited by the Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate and provide evidence of your...
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Article 5 mins