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What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...skilled in many of the following: engineering, communicating, designing, developing, innovating, managing, manufacturing, modelling, and systems thinking. But technology also gives us various products which can be used for good or ill or where the benefits are disputed and similarly the processes involved in producing and using technology means that we should all take an...
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Article 5 mins
Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...skills, a sense of achievement, responsibility and increased confidence. [Part of a parterre in an English garden.] Having worked as a ‘horticultural therapist’ in the 1980s and 1990s with service users leaving the old long-stay mental hospitals I certainly agree that many people with mental health problems did seem to experience these benefits. However, as the years...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to Working with Young People
Education & Development

Introduction to Working with Young People

...skills are essential. Working with a Youth Service Akkas recounts the story of his involvement with The Factory Project, how it's led to better prospects, and how his Bengali ethnicity means he can bridge cultural gaps. The Project Co-ordinator's perspective Andrew Lake's story of initiating the project, to show young people how to make positive use of their time and help...
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Video 1 hr 28 mins
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...study in Arts and Humanities...Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how to study music reception demonstrate an awareness of how changing social situations and the availability of new technology impact on musical performance...Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective: 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...studies suggest that over 50% of transgender individuals will experience sexual assault in their lifetime (a rate that is far higher than for nontransgendered individuals), and using bathrooms could pose a significant threat of physical harm or harassment. Fear of violence Studies show that transgender students could be harassed, sexually assaulted or subjected to other...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...study Neptune. Then I took a chemistry class … But it turned out that I'm really good at connecting dots and understanding abstractions, which led me to studying the political and cultural aspects of space. Later, I started researching decolonial (or anti-colonial) theory, which led me to see parallels between the way we talk about exploring space and the way in which...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has helped to create and maintain the ideas of the Faculty. In the light of the recent deaths of a tutor, who retired in 2015 and an academic-related colleague, who retired in 2011, we have put together collective obituaries. There is of course far more to be said about both Peter and John. We have focused on...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Studies qualification. This made me question my identity as a teacher and wonder what schools were for, and motivated me to undertake a doctoral study at The Open University (awarded in 2022) to understand what was happening. Increasing ‘official’ numbers Recent years have seen media focus on rising numbers of home-educated children with special educational needs....
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