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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...world of Facebook gender categories, in the first of two posts...This content is associated with The Open University's Open degree qualification. [People look at Facebook in this cartoon, with varying responses to the range of gender identities on offer] February is a pretty busy time for somebody who writes about sex, gender and relationships, what with the coinciding of...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...world. It also serves to divert attention away from the relationship between modern industrial Britain’s economic success, its leading role in the Atlantic Slave Trade and its often violent, exploitative colonial rule. These historical narratives also perpetuate a crude racialised hierarchy between white and black. The stories that underpin this ‘whitewashed’...
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Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...world, there are different views about how neurodiversity is understood and therefore defined. Some cultures are yet to accept the paradigm of neurodiversity and believe that experiences of ADHD, autism, etc are all forms of mental health disorders. Behaviours that are classed as different or a difficulty vary widely because of the different expectations of social...
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Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...World Eras, Vol. 2: Rise and Spread of Islam, 622–1500, Gale, pp. 280–7. Ergil, L.Y. (2021) ‘Turkish and Ottoman traditions for Eid al-Fitr: a time for gratitude’, Daily Sabah, 12 May. Available at: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/turkish-and-ottoman-traditions-for-eid-al-fitr-a-time-for-gratitude (Accessed: 6 April 2023). Esposito, J.L. (1998) Islam: The...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Social intelligence is often linked with the use of emotional intelligence. This involves an interplay between emotions (the affective domain) and thinking (the cognitive domain). Stavrou Theodotou (2020) uses the work of Mayer and Salovey (1997) to identify four cognitive abilities that illustrate emotional intelligence: Appraisal and...
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Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...world, as an example of the connections between language and culture. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Why study languages?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: give examples of how language is related to culture in local, national and global contexts describe some traditions...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...world in the millennium and a half since its birth, and how it’s used in a range of different domains of life. You’ll look at the language of lying, the language of literature, of comedy and persuasion – and how all these fundamental characteristics of human life are ultimately made possible because of the faculty that our species has for language. The course will...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...world in which we find ourselves in today. Each context is different, and each context is endlessly changing. Development actors sometimes find it hard to know what to do about this. They tend to be working under considerable time pressure and may be expected to bring about extraordinary levels of change with very limited resources. The consequence of this can sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs