Open Learning

Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...social differences in practices and expectations using Walter's checklist of questions. We also interviewed one another about our experiences of the death of a relative to understand more about our own and one anothers’ emotional responses and the feelings aroused by being interviewed on this topic. These reflexive approaches helped to acknowledge and make visible our...

View article

Article 5 mins

Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...social sciences, arts and natural sciences, emerging. Following the logic of this trajectory we can see how forms of interdisciplinarity might emerge. Holley identifies ‘three variations of knowledge production that extend across disciplinary boundaries ….. cross-disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity’. (Holley, 2009) Cross –disciplinarity is...

View article

Article 10 mins

History & The Arts

Freedom of speech

...Social challenges Others might say the mere fact that speech causes offence should never be a reason to ban it. As Voltaire’s biographer put it in summing up the great philosopher’s views, ‘I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ This also does not seem right. Should people have to endure racist or sexist abuse?...

View article

Article 10 mins

Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...social science methods, it aimed to provide new understandings of how cultural knowledge and identity are mediated through child language brokering and to explore whether young people were aware of translating cultures. Arts-based methods gave the young people (aged 13-16 years) who took part a chance to talk about migration, language brokering and identity and our focus...

View article

Article 5 mins

Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...team’s research has an explicit focus on how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in producing educational disadvantage. In examining teachers’ perceptions and practices as well as children’s own experiences of reading pedagogy, the team hope to offer more nuanced understandings of disengagement and suggest possible ways forward with long term goals in mind....

View article

Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...social disorder, there’s now a general acceptance that the involvement of fathers is important for children’s healthy development. In the past, it might have been acceptable for fathers to act simply as breadwinners and to leave bringing up the children to mothers, but not any more. Increasingly, it seems, the only good father is one who is present – and not only...

View article

Article 5 mins

Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...social and ecological entity: the Amazon rainforest and its associated indigenous and other communities undertaking traditional land use practices. The role played by the trees of the Amazon [Diagram depicting the interdependencies of the natural resources in the Amazon,with trees at the centre of the web.] At the centre of the Amazon system are its billions of trees....

View article

Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

English monsters

...social and economic change – change that brought prosperity to some but suffering to others. The dog was an emblem of what was wrong with things, as it is in King Lear when Lear is brought face to face with the ‘Poor naked wretches . . .’, those subjects he has ‘. . . ta'en / Too little care of . . .’. As unique as Shakespeare’s presentation of his theme is,...

View article

Article 10 mins

Page 160 of 261
Prev
...
156
157
158
159
160(current)
161
162
163
...
Next

Prev
...
159
160(current)
161
...
Next

My OpenLearn Profile

Select a resource

Types of course

Levels

Resource length

Select a subject

Select a topic

Skills

2,083 search results

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge