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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...Open University course KE206 Making a difference: working with children and young people...Supporting children and young people's wellbeing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the principles, purposes and responsibilities affecting those working with children and young people critically engage with some of the social...
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...resource exploitation, and as the main importers of tropical timber. The G77 note that their right to use forest resources for their economic development is enshrined in international law (Humphreys, 2019, p. 279), and any action from the North preventing them exercising this right could be considered as neo-colonialism. These rooted disagreements are difficult to...
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...educational performance across the board. But is there really any proof?...Music is one of the most beautiful and powerful creations of humankind, and its powers are well known – making us happy and sad or relaxed and excited. And more generally, music can induce powerful feelings – as Bono the lead singer of the band U2 put it, “music can change the world because...
Earth In Vision: A Collection
Nature & Environment

Earth In Vision: A Collection

The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...Tristyan Lebrun in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...educators). Batalden and Davidoff (2007) propose that quality improvement is: …the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional...
Recycling and Waste
Nature & Environment

Recycling and Waste

How much do you think about what you throw away? Do you know what happens to the things you chuck out? Find out more about waste and recycling with our FREE resources:
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....