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The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...social context we are currently experiencing and how this means each of us must take more responsibility for our own finances. She also talks with George and Martin about her own money story and her own money challenges. These include efforts to overcome innate risk averseness around investment. Jonquil also signals a warning about financial scams and invites us to take...
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Audio 5 mins
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...social play experiences, following seven 4-year-old children from England...Children’s perspectives on play: 1.1 What does play mean? - Based in Oakland, California, USA, Julie Nicholson and her colleagues interviewed 98 school pupils (most between the ages of three and ten, but some were teenagers) about their perspectives on both children’s and adults’ play. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...social situations? What we notice, pay attention to, and speak about in different contexts is socially constructed through rules. In his book, ‘The Elephant in the Room’, Eviatar Zerubavel (2006) describes the way in which certain subjects like climate change are avoided or considered taboo. These internalised social rules make it easier for us to ignore the topic of...
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Article 5 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume of poetry, her own long poem The Battle of Marathon (1820), is by a female author (UK RED: 16095). Her reading and response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...work of fiction? JONNY GELLER: Well, a literary agent primarily is there to discover new talent and exploit the rights derived from the copyright in that work. So we go out and find, we sift through the thousands that are sent to us and of course we also manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative,...
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Audio 10 mins
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...work on – skydiving – I mean you went parachuting yourself, just tell me a little bit about either your own fears and concerns about that or the feeling of jumping out of a plane? James Hardie-Bick: Well I think fears and concerns are definitely the right words to describe it. After the training, which was four days of training and you’re shown videos of what can go...
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Article 10 mins
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
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...social world. Interpretivist (or ‘critical’, or ‘post-positivist’) research focuses on understanding social phenomena. Such questions ask how a certain understanding of the world, set of social relations or array of practices comes to be. Implicit here is the sense that other ways of understanding and arranging the social world are possible, and perhaps desirable,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs