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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...learn. Arguably, these aspirations simply reflect the requirements of statutory documents. [1] My participants felt their reasonable assumptions were not met by educators they had entrusted with their children’s wellbeing. Disappointed expectations led to a loss of trust in schools. Teacher relationships Parents described deteriorating relationships with teachers and...
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Article 5 mins
From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...learned to trust my abilities. Throughout my life, I have been fortunate to meet individuals who modelled inclusive leadership, people who treated me according to my strengths rather than assumptions. Their belief in me laid the foundations for my personal and professional ambitions. Over the last two decades, I have become a consultant, academic and disability rights...
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Article 5 mins
The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...learning new things: games, recipes, driving routes, a musical instrument, a foreign language. Take a course in an unfamiliar subject that interests you. The more interested and engaged your brain, the more likely you’ll be to continue learning, and the greater the benefits you’ll experience. Take on a project that involves design and planning. Learn a new dance....
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Article 10 mins
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what the evidence says about whether child mental health is in crisis in the UK apply the ethical concepts of autonomy and paternalism to the example of school refusal describe how professionals and others assess children and young people with commonly occurring mental health problems...Child...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...fiction’ from our personal lives. As is often the case, Stuart Hall put his finger on it when he reflected on how Marxism morphed into cultural studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to attend, not only to what people said about race but… to what people could not say about race, it was the...
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Video 30 mins
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This free course, Introducing the Classical world, will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this fascinating period of history...How do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Blaenau Gwent REACH
History & The Arts

Blaenau Gwent REACH

...learn more about what the history of the Gwent Valleys means to the people who live in them. @@PLUGINFILE@@/image-hotspots-1027%20%282%29.h5p Blaenau Gwent REACH is a collaboration between Aberbeeg Community Group, Linc Cymru Housing Association and The Open University in Wales, and funded by UKRI. [Logos from BG Reach partners – The UK Research and Innovation Fund,...
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Article 5 mins
Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?
Money & Business

Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?

...learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned...
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Article 5 mins