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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses. [The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...social network, such as family and friends. An asterisk indicates that the odds ratio for MD or GAD associated with the given life event is statistically significant. Activity 1 Linking MD or GAD to a stressful life event Timing: Allow 5 minutes Using the information in Figure 2, which disorder, MD or GAD, do women who have experienced assault tend to develop? Try to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...social and political change. Part 3 Now return to your own ideas about peace. Is there anything you might add? Think about these questions: What might inform your perspective on peace? Which aspects of your life experience do you draw on when you think of peace? CPD sessions With a group, you might use the quotes and images above to start the discussion. However you could...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...social, political, environmental and financial feasibility are explored and assessed. Decision making tools are discussed. Once a proposal for action has been accepted by management, a project results. This course looks at various ways of organising the life cycles of projects and what the project manager’s job consists of. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...social structure and capacity. It was driven by an economic imperative of the time. But running right through it was an intellectual model of the mind, which was essentially the Enlightenment view of intelligence; that real intelligence consists in this capacity for a certain type of deductive reasoning and a knowledge of the classics originally. What we come to think of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...socialism and revolution were seen as an answer to the injustice faced by workers. By this time, the disparate and disorganised navvies had mostly moved across to the railway construction which had superseded the declining canal building industry. However, there was still the Manchester Ship Canal to complete - the swansong for the navvies and hailed as the greatest...
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Article 5 mins
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...social determinants into account. Here’s how she neatly wove that in: Strength abounds in Harlem. Three hundred years of oppression and it survives. This is the task in Harlem, to see strength where it exists, to expect it to be there, right there, next to, and a part of nature, nurture and noxia. Even anger may show strength. It can sustain a child and protect him...
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Activity 5 mins
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...social engagement. My results suggest one concrete avenue where greater political attentiveness may produce clear benefits – greater sanctioning of politicians who misuse public office for personal or political gain. This article was originally published by LSE USAPP blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence and is based on the paper, ’Uninformed Voters and Corrupt...
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Article 5 mins