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Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year

...of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. The Chinese New Year of 2020 falls on January 25th (Saturday), and the festival will last to February 8th, about 15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
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100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson. Check out their incredible story below then dig deeper into our resources on suffragettes, women's history and feminism. Endell Street: A Suffragette Story Transcript...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...Open without dropping a set. Shortly after that win, Dr Jessica Pinchbeck looked at the important role her parents played in her career and life up to that point...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their...
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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...Open University. He explains why it’s important other current players start planning for the future, plus how the support of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) helped...Dominic recalls his upbringing and how his parents influenced him: "Mum and dad trained as teachers, so I was always pushed in school. Even when football opportunities came, I was always...
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Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students
Education & Development

Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students

...Open University's Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Wales Transcript Utilising technology in new and innovative ways can develop new pedagogies and new approaches to developing learning. Moving beyond the desktop screen and keyboard with the widespread use of mobile technology allows the integration of the environment with technology in creative ways. In this...
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Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...Open University course E233 Sport and exercise psychology: a case study approach...Exercise and mental health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the links between physical activity and mental health understand some of the proposed theories of why exercise benefits mental health...Exercise and mental health:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...educated members of an elite, millionaire set. David Cameron’s Cabinet was notably composed of members of the ‘Bullingdon club’– the infamous Oxford University dining club. Even in Theresa May’s Cabinet, which has the lowest number of private-school educated ministers since 1945, 33% of the total positions are held by an Oxbridge educated group, whilst most of...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the ‘disciplines’ which...
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