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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...writing notes studying] What has strongly come across so far is the positive way in which participants have coped with issues such as the monotony of everyday life under lockdown, and have used the time to their advantage. For example, a number of children and young people have developed hobbies and interests over the past year and hope to use these and develop them...
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Article 10 mins
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...write anonymously due to previous experiences of stigma in the workplace in relation to their ADHD. Random bruises – from accidentally knocking into door handles to more regularly having minor accidents, ADHD can impact how people move about in the world and the risks they take. It is not uncommon for me to find that I have bruises of ‘unknown origin’ as I can’t...
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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...writing in 2024, there are nearly 35,000 nursing vacancies in the UK (NHS Digital, 2024). The future of the nursing profession and healthcare workforce depends on attracting enough people to train to become nurses. However, to achieve this, nursing needs to be accurately represented by the media to demonstrate the complex, highly skilled profession that it is,...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...writing in Foreign Affairs, suggested that the knowledge that secrecy might be a thing of the past should lead to a remaking of state behaviour: Manning's and [Edward] Snowden's leaks mark the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. government can no longer count on keeping its secret behavior secret. Hundreds of thousands of Americans today have access to classified...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...writings I advocated, what to me was the only truth, that it was necessary to live in such a way as to derive the greatest comfort for oneself and one’s family. Thus I proceeded to live, but five years ago something very strange began to happen to me: I was overcome by minutes at first of perplexity and then of an arrest of life, as though I did not know how to live or...
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The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...writing about, what was in this book and who was it addressed to? Margaret Willes: Wel he was writing to his country cousins, about how they should run their farm, how they should farm, how they should till their fields - but also how they should look after their gardens. And husbandry and gardening are absolutely intertwined at this period. Laurie Taylor: And you say in...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...writing or painting about issues of race and ethnicity, and not just in Black History Month or South Asian Heritage Month. Critics of multiculturalism have called it the 3 Ss: saris, steel drums and samosas. It’s argued that it gives us a false idea of culture as simply about colourful artefacts. It doesn’t engage in a critique of the underlying discriminatory...
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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: burakkarademir; Getty Images Introduction images: first:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs