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How to read the news
Society, Politics & Law

How to read the news

...links helpful: Full Fact – an independent fact checking organisation for the UK. Snopes – a US-based fact checking organisation. Democracy Classroom - a set of resources from organisations supporting young people to engage in elections. [AC Collection] This resource is part of the Active Citizenship in Wales collection. Discover more on the collection homepage....
The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing

...resources to practice forest bathing on your own on The Parks Trust website. There is lots of research about gardening and working outdoors being good for health and wellbeing. Each week, a group of volunteers helps The Parks Trust with conservation management tasks, contributing to better habitats across the city. They keep active all day, chat together, share lunch,...
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...resources that we offer, to give anybody the tools to achieve success. In 2015, the OU created badged courses, which give learners the option to earn a digital badge on completion, in order to demonstrate their learning journey. The Dangoor Education courses on OpenLearn include some of the first badged courses. As of January 2021, OpenLearn has seen almost 200,000...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste management habits...Waste management and environmentalism in China: 1 Waste in China - From their changing diet to owning more household objects, the Chinese are becoming great consumers. Production of consumer goods needs resources such as raw materials,...
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices within their particular social...
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...resources lack of comfort relationship issues exploitation. Think about an area of sport or fitness practice that you are familiar with and list any potential ethical dilemmas that may occur in each of these categories. Where possible, try and note down a possible solution or prevention. Comment The example you think of will be very specific to the area selected. However,...
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...human behaviour. The end result is that a team of social entrepreneurs building innovative healthcare systems and a criminal gang creating illicit trading networks may both find themselves referred to as acting ‘entrepreneurially’. In the first activity, we start to explore this territory by asking what it means to be an ‘entrepreneur’...Entrepreneurial...
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...human development but not something that has been considered a key topic in social psychology. However, when you recognise that it is through the body that we relate to other people and the world about us, then perhaps it does make sense. Our body is the vehicle for communicating with others and for carrying out our everyday lives. It is impossible to separate our bodies...