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James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC film that made...
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Video 30 mins
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...health and safety at work, how to tackle discrimination and how to exercise their rights. They also need to understand the importance of employers and employees working together in partnership to improve performance. (Foreword to A Better Way to Work, TUC, 2003) The main objective of this subsection is to raise issues of the contemporary position and nature of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...Health Service would be included. The very next day he said oh no it wouldn't be. Now is that a lie or what what is it. I mean it get it almost beyond belief. Tony Thorne In fact and I can't judge the truth of this of course. But the Washington Post and other US journalists have tried to count the number of lies that they claim that Donald Trump has told since he took...
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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...mental health, then training as a clinical psychologist. I specialised chiefly in learning disability where I suppose some of my other interests came together with my practice and my psychological interests to develop a much more social approach, and to focus very much on processes of oppression, liberation, mobilisation, development, and so on. Not individual focus...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...mental health issue, or a real deep underlying confidence issue, where you think, actually no, that is something that requires specialist input that needs to sit outside the coaching relationship. So you also have to have this ethicality about referring people on as and when needed, and adhering to professional standards. JEREMY HOWELL In my experience, what I think makes...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...health programs, it can also be about shaping their bodies (Zoller, 2003). Hence employees come to embody the organisational cultural ideals (James & Zoller, 2018), sometimes through intrusive practices...Contemporary issues in managing: 1.3 Session 1 quiz - You have now looked at managing through organisational culture. To test your understanding of this managerial...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...mental flexibility, a superiority in concept formation, a more diversified set of mental abilities.’ Although the Peal/Lambert study has, in its turn, been shown to have flaws, it set the tone for much of the research that followed, which has consistently shown the relationship between bilingualism and children’s cognitive development in a positive light. Recent...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...health and wellbeing. You might be particularly interested in our BSc (hons) Sport, fitness and coaching. Making the decision to study can be a big step and The Open University has over 40 years of experience supporting its students through their chosen learning paths. You can find out more about studying with us by visiting our online prospectus. You can now return to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs