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Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...social skills and behaviours (e.g. Bowes and Jones, 2006). However, here in this course, it is broken down into parts – thereby making it easier to study – and you will revisit this video in Session 2 to make further sense of it. Right now, at the beginning of this course, you should consider to what extent you use small talk when you catch up with someone. Is small...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...social construction of difference and power. The materials are primarily an audio file, originally 28 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Children’s rights: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the broad issue of children as citizens...Children’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...social constructivism, and with it an attendant focus on how issues of culture and identity affect relations between states. For my own work, however, I wanted to delve deeper. I was not, and am still not really guided by the International Relations scholar’s desire for systemic explanations of how the world is ordered. Rather, I want to see why and how certain themes...
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Article 5 mins
Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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Video 5 mins
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...social existence. However, there remains serious controversy over whether one should form relationships at work – the subject of this week’s episode. Considering how much time we spend at work, it is not surprising that many people make strong bonds with their co-workers. What can start as being simple colleagues can blossom into close friendships. Similarly, being...
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Article 5 mins
How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...social and structural changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman...[Shoppers queue in 1950s Bristol] Shoppers wait patiently in Bristol, during the 1950s. This year’s Family Spending report, which covers the financial year ending March 2017, marks the sixtieth year of results from a household expenditure survey – in its current form, the Living Costs and...
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Article 5 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...social interaction with other students and teachers. More explicitly than in ‘traditional’ distance teaching, the learner is addressed not as a passive recipient, but as an active constructor. [Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU_teacher_image] To apply the ‘Flipped Classroom’ concept into the distance learning module Rundblick:...
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Article 10 mins
What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...social relationships. Being creative is about exploring, not being afraid to make mistakes and using ideas and resources in new ways. This not only supports sharing experiences with others but widens children’s ability to feel able to participate because there are no right or wrong answers and there is no pressure to conform or respond in a certain way. Being creative,...
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Article 10 mins