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Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...careful consideration. The mentor must avoid patronising the student teacher and should be sensitive to their adult status. Conversations between two adults, where one is the teacher and the other the student teacher, can be uncomfortable and non-productive unless both participants feel that their contributions are valued. This can particularly be the case if the student...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...adults in the living room, for instance. And then things started changing in the way that, the history of television, you then had multi channels, so you had Sky and equivalent, so everyone was then fighting for all the viewers. I think what’s also interesting is that people used to sit through the adverts and some people still sit through the adverts, so you’re...
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Video 30 mins
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...care, allowing yourself time to get the feel of what you are looking at. Don't assume you already know what you are looking at...Reading evidence: 1.2.4 Stage 2: Find a way in - It's easy to be distracted by the surface appearance of a diagram, but we are really interested in the underlying message. This is rather like the distinction made between the content and context...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...caring is so habitual, that we often fail to recognize it, even when it’s right in front of our eyes. Our love for some animals even seems to excuse us from complicity in industrialized killing: In a current KFC TV advertising campaign, pairs of friends undertake the ‘KFC Friendship Bucket Test’: one has to answer a question about their friend, and match their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...care sector identify pertinent health issues in the field of women’s health...Exploring issues in women's health: 1 Thinking about women’s health today - Before you start, you’ll watch a video featuring OU academics, Dr Sara MacKian and Dr Sharon Mallon, as well as OU employees discussing issues in relation to women’s health. Activity 1 Issues in women’s health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...adults take quite dominant positions in the picture. This is a result of the photographer taking his picture from a position at the side of the television. (Of course we cannot see the television, and indeed we only know that it exists via the information supplied by the photographer.) The young people in the picture are arranged in a mainly subordinate position to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...care assistant from Copenhagen who has battled with depression since his early teens. Like Angelina and many others with depression, his first episode followed a period of intense stress and upheaval. His sister, who more or less brought him up, left home when he was 13, leaving him with an uninterested mother and a father who also suffered from severe depression. Soon...
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Article 15 mins
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...care and compassion to strangers, both human and non-human – not just in the present, but also those distant in space and time (Dobson, 2000). These virtues of care and compassion are experienced, nurtured and taught not in public spaces – the established domain of citizenship – but in the private sphere (in other words, the family and the home). Do these features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs