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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Adult Health in Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way...
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...adults. It’s tremendous! The programme they made about clearing plastic out of the ocean was as hard hitting as you could possibly get, and I simply have never understood why the broadcasters think it’s alright to tell children about these things but somehow adults can’t deal with it. What is good about programmes like The Octonauts and Hugh’s Fish Fight? Well,...
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...adults. In contrast, boys were encouraged to play more actively, with toy weapons and footballs, to support an adult, masculine role as protector of the family and provider. This underpinning of gender stereotyping continued into the education system, where girls were taught different subjects from boys, and reading books mostly featured male protagonists with women...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...careful control of tasks. Historically, this was referred to as ‘scientific management’ because it was felt that the manager's role was like that of a scientist, to control, or at least intervene in, processes in order to change them. For the ‘scientific’ manager, the desired change in these processes was an improvement in efficiency in the way in which they...
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...cared to stare into a shop window could examine and criticise his portrait extremely repulsive to him. I remember that this shyness of his was the only occasion of anything approaching a quarrel between us. I had an idle trick of drawing caricatures when I was a child, and one day when he was writing some letters I began to make a picture of him on the back of an...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to achieve an illusion of real people and their relationships in a real world. Through analysing narrative you will think about who the narrator is, and the importance of the narrative point of view in telling the story, as well as understanding how characterisation, the use of...
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...careful because this is specific to London but at the same time there are issues around migration that I can connect to bigger debates about migration on the global scene. I think my using ‘problem’ in this context is not the more prosaic use of ‘problem’, I think. I think it’s almost more a technical word and I think I also used the word ‘puzzle’ which is...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...adults in particular struggling to redefine their experiences of schooling. One major factor in this struggle towards redefinition has been the shift towards a social model of disability. In their seminal research, Rieser and Mason described a model as ‘not necessarily the truth as borne out by scientific fact, just an idea that helps us to make sense of information’...