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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...Education at The Open University explores whether children are given enough autonomy when it comes to writing...Over the last three months the Craft of Writing team, (Debra Myhill and I, Becky Swain, Becky Coles and Sara Venner) have been recruiting schools to this new project. Funded by EEF and the RSA, it’s a partnership study between the OU, the University of Exeter...
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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...education. Aids to implementing policy David Stewart on how Northern Ireland's size is advantageous when it comes to cross-sector work and experimental projects. Barriers to implementing policy David Stewart on how Northern Ireland is disadvantaged by the British government's Barnett Formula and its complex local government system Legacies of the troubles David Stewart on...
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The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers

...education, leisure, relationships and therefore physical and mental health. Young carers’ opportunities for physical activity are more restricted than for other young people, even under ‘normal’ conditions. The current pandemic, during which even the physical education and sporting activity in schools has ceased, has created additional problems for this group of...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...technological fixes to it. MR: No I don’t. I don’t take a pessimistic stance on the technological fixes to it, by no means. I think there are some spectacular technological fixes out there. Cheaper gas, nuclear power in many different forms, molten salt reactors, thorium reactors, small modular reactors. I think we’re going to see spectacular changes in our energy...
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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...education and vaccination. All we need is to educate, educate, educate.” At the Rani Sarala Devi School in Bangalore – the school Madhusudana attended as a child – doctors are busy conducting a free vaccination clinic for children from families with low incomes. “Our children are from the slum area,” says teacher R G Sudha, as more than 400 kids aged 5 to 13...
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...education and mean ‘schoolboy’ and ‘schoolgirl’. Word ‘nurse’ in Ukrainian literally means ‘medical sister’ (medsestra) or ‘medical brother’ (medbrat). Since nail technicians in Ukraine are women (at least I have never seen a male nail technician there), word manikiurnytsia is used in female form, while budivelnyk (‘builder’) is normally used in...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...education and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Ann Phoenix suggests that, in relation to the TV programme, ‘the children were engaging as active citizens’. How does she argue for the proposition and what evidence does she cite from the programme? Mary McLeod and Ann Phoenix have different views on ‘children as citizens’. Can you identify each of these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...educators – they became passive consumers of medical services. At the same time, the medical profession no longer simply dealt with the sick, but increasingly took a role in monitoring the lifestyle and behaviour of healthy people. As a result, people became increasingly dependent on medical practitioners to guide their lives. In this course, I explore these issues...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs