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When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...adults. It turns out that for young children, initial concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt gender-stereotyped behaviors (e.g., preferring colors like pink or blue) until the age of two or three. A few years later, their concept of gender becomes quite rigid, and although it becomes more...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...adults were the ones controlling the reading on offer to children. In particular, talk about texts was confined to the official literacy curriculum, to guided and shared reading where children’s responses were commented upon and evaluated according to the daily learning objectives. There were few real spaces for non-assessed relaxed reading conversations (in pairs or...
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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...adults – lived at home. It provided great flexibility, dividing degree programs into smaller modules, which students could complete sequentially or simultaneously, and by stopping and starting according to their needs. It made heavy use of computers, not initially for teaching but to grade multiple-choice tests and schedule course mailings. Instructors lacked the...
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Article 15 mins
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...Adults London, Learning Matters, Sage Ruck Keene, A., Edwards, K., Eldergill, A. and Miles, S. (2014) Court of Protection Handbook: A User’s Guide, London, Legal Action Group. Ruck-Keene, A.,, Butler-Cole, V., Allen, N., Lee, A., Bicarregui, A., Edwards, S. (2016) A brief guide to carrying out Best Interests assessments, London, 39, Essex Chambers, Sinson, J. (2017)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...adults, and often boys rather than girls. They may think that these children are badly behaved and often will note that they struggle with attention. Some people do not think ADHD is a real condition but rather a label given to badly behaved children, whose bad behaviour is caused by poor parenting. As you work through this topic keep your own beliefs, and those we have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...adult corruption. Ideas of children's innocence, gentleness and kindness can be traced back to the Romantic period in European history, characterized by philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and poets such as William Wordsworth. For the Romantics, children had a visionary quality and represented humanity in its uncorrupted state. They were born good and lacking in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...adults being overweight or obese (predominantly focusing on obesity), including a person’s lifestyle. When Level/Year 2 Open University students from the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care were asked to consider this question, more than two-thirds selected ‘Yes – a little (being overweight is somewhat to do with a person’s lifestyle)’. The results were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age
Education & Development

Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age

...adults watch television – which isn’t subject to regulation. And advertising in digital media in the UK is guided by rules that are unlikely to capture most of the exposure to unhealthy marketing that young people view in social media. Elsewhere in the world, regulation of unhealthy food promotion in digital media is almost completely absent. In a world of overweight...
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Article 10 mins