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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Write your response in the box below. In the next section, you will check your privilege...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 2 Thinking point: check your privilege - The phrase ‘check your privilege’ is often used on social media to remind others that the life they were born into came with specific privileges. It is also used to remind others that every...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Write it down and what it means in English and ask yourself why it is significant. Record your thoughts as they may be useful when you complete the quiz at the end of this session. Discussion The article mentions the Children and Young Persons Act 1963, the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, the Children Act 1989 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Each of these has...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...write down two or three sentences that describe your own understanding of it. The way in which our environment is perceived is central to the way in which we approach environmental decision making, so the concept of environment will be explored iteratively in this course. At this stage, I simply want to introduce the concept, to encourage you to be critical of how the...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...writing in a notebook or on your computer or tablet. There are free response box options inside some of the activities. Please note: anything you add into these boxes will be saved for you to return to, provided you are signed into OpenLearn and enrolled on the course. But the information saved is only accessible to you and cannot be viewed by anyone else. You can collate...
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...write about projects, we have to define what they are and describe how they arise. This course will concentrate on describing what a project is, and how it can arise as a part of a planning process, as a response to a changing environment, as a business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often appear to be mysterious: it can be...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...writes and/or spells. Neurodiversity This term describes differences in neurological development which we see across a whole population of people, often viewed as natural variation. Neurodivergent This term describes an individual whose neurodevelopment is not considered typical. This is often accompanied by a diagnosed condition. Neurotypical This term describes an...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...write down your thoughts on the following questions. REPORTER Police in Northern Ireland have used water cannon tonight as more petrol bombs and fireworks were thrown on the seventh night of violence on the streets of Belfast. The renewed unrest comes despite a plea for calm from the British and Irish prime ministers, who issued a joint statement this evening. Police say...
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...writing a comment underneath them people that have used them have sent me a private message over TES. We’ve often exchanged email addresses and they then have come back to me and said I’ve adapted it, here’s what I did, you might be able to use this. So it’s really broadened the teacher community I feel part of. I believe there something for everybody on there no...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs