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Learning to change
OpenLearn Ireland

Learning to change

...adult learners - their background and reasons for taking further education courses. Juggling a Job Three adult learners talk about the value of life experience and describe how they managed their studies alongside other commitments. Benefit through Learning What the future holds. Adult learners reflect on how their studies have furthered their careers and changed their...
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Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research

...adult carers and older adult carers. (see more in OpenLearn Article: Supporting adult carers during COVID19 pandemic). Increased demand on coping leaves even less time for physical activity, and this has been highlighted on a BBC1 broadcast on 4th May 2020. Carers, who due to their caring duties, were at increased risk of social isolation before the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Article 30 mins
We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover
History & The Arts

We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover

...adults. Judging books by their covers This negative reaction to a book cover is not without precedent: in 2012 Faber drew flak for reissuing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar with a “chick-lit” cover depicting a woman fixing her make-up. Plath’s readers took issue with what they saw as the trivialisation of a novel about a woman’s descent into mental illness. By...
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Article 10 mins
For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...adults after disasters, such as the one I responded to above. Age alone does not make people more vulnerable to disasters, but many health issues that are common with aging do, including frailness, memory impairment, limited mobility and chronic illness. Sixty percent of Hurricane Katrina deaths were age 65 and older, and more older adults died after Hurricane Katrina and...
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Article 5 mins
Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...adults from viewing sexual acts that are otherwise legal to engage in. The BBFC’s current pornographic R18 category is reserved for explicit works that contain consensual sex or more extreme fetish material involving adults. This sounds broad but the body’s list of unacceptable content includes material where adults role-play as non-adults, acts that could cause pain...
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Article 5 mins
Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...adults too. These are not abstract fears but result from seeing the lived experience, particularly of people who are and will be disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. According to UNICEF, the climate crisis is a children’s rights crisis. Environmental damage puts children’s access to sanitation, education, clean air, and clean water at stake....
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Article 10 mins
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...adults and used to improve young people’s lives. Children and young people can participate in different ways. They can sit on school councils as a way of representing the views and experiences of their peers, for example. They can volunteer within their local community and contribute to advisory and policy working groups, like Ellie Jones who we have interviewed about...
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Article 5 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...adult frog into its place. The experiment failed when conducted in this way. However, partial success was achieved in 1970 when British developmental biologist, John Gurdon, inserted nuclei from advanced frog embryos rather than adult tissue. The frog eggs developed into tadpoles, but died before becoming adults. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that live, human-made...
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Article 30 mins