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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Social Sciences for her work on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex and transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. Transcript Race Equality Charter: Lessons Learned The next session involved a presentation by Professor Marcia Wilson from the University of East London on her experience of leading a successful submission for...
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The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...social factors, influence our love for animals and our pets. What is clear though is that both humans and our mammalian pets release the love hormone, oxytocin, which helps us to feel happiness and trust, and be more relaxed in each other’s presence! See more of our Valentine's content in our OpenLearn Valentine's collection. References Brooks, H.L., Rushton, K.,...
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Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...social studies, including vocational A levels. Since then, I've been a full-time mother and homemaker. I've really enjoyed spending time with Akaash and Vanita, but I have always promised myself that I will get back into teaching when Vanita was old enough. My husband, Rohit, always thought this would be a good idea, although as a quantity surveyor he works long hours and...
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...social self as internal working model’, in Gunnar, M. R. and Sroufe, L. A. (eds), Self process and development: Minnesota symposia on child psychology, vol. 23, pp. 1-41, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Bretherton, I. (1993) ‘From dialogue to internal working models: The co-construction of self relationships’, in Nelson, C. A. (ed) Memory and affect in...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...social and economic status compared to Catholics, they still endured economic and religious discrimination at the hands of the politically dominant Anglican Ascendancy class. They especially resented having to pay so-called tithes, a form of taxation, for the upkeep of the established Anglican church (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013, p. 98). Most Presbyterians, because they did not own...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...social instability. The immediate human cost of war is something we often see in the news. But far less reported, is war’s environmental or biological consequences. These are often equally destructive. Syria is a country in a region of the world known by biologists as the ‘fertile crescent’. As its name suggests, this arc of land is a place where plant life grows in...
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Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Social Development, the Uganda Rights NGO Network, and UNICEF (Uganda Office). When reading this document, consider the following areas: How does this approach compare with current UK policy and practice? What points of similarity and difference can you identify in relation to diverse cultural environments? Is gender an issue? Is girls’ education singled out for special...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...Social Work in Public Health, 29(1), pp. 27-34. Browne, S. (2015) Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. USA: Duke University Press. Bulman, M. (2018) ‘Police custody deaths hit highest level in decade after 64% increase in a year’, The Independent, 25 July. Available at:
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