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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...managers who play a significant part in influencing a grieving employee’s experience of their workplace. The most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues struggle with what to say and how to behave when someone returns to work.Yet even the most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Project forward to 2100: how optimistic are you that we've got this problem manageable? RT: I'm reasonably optimistic … I mean there's clear dangers out there with climate change but as I said, most of these dangers have to do with underdevelopment and if by 2100 large parts of the world are still underdeveloped then I think that is their bigger problem than...
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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Introduction - This free course, Teaching secondary music, explores some of the key ideas and concepts that beginner teachers in secondary schools need to understand so they can plan their teaching to support the musical development, understanding and skills of all the young people they teach. These include: what it means to teach and learn musically the musical...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...Introduction - This course introduces key questions about language and thought, such as how can language, which is public and accessible, be used to convey thoughts, which seem hidden from view. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...Language and thought: Introducing representation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...Introduction - Are factors influencing our health and wellbeing biological, or can they be more or less exclusively attributed to individual differences in terms of lifestyle? For instance, in high-income countries many ‘lifestyles’ are physically inactive, and this can have a negative impact on a person’s health. In this free course, Exploring health: is your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Introduction - Children and young people’s participation is a complex and contested area. The theme of ‘participation’ infers a sense of involvement, citizenship and agency. Here we look at the multidimensional nature of children’s participation and the many challenges that practitioners and children face. When thinking about these issues it will be important to...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...Introduction In recent decades there have been many events that seem to link religion and violence – for example, the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland in the later twentieth century, the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the activities of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and recurrent communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in India. It is also likely that the situations that...
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Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Introduction - This free course, Climate justice for the next generation, introduces you to a contemporary, emerging issue in Childhood and Youth Studies. You will examine some of the debates around environmental change, its specific impact on children and young people, and the role of children and young people as activists and campaigners within their changing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs