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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...Introduction - This free course, Supporting children and young people’s wellbeing, introduces different ways of understanding wellbeing as well as related concepts such as resilience. There is a wide a variety of practices and services that provide support for children and young people’s wellbeing and this course also explores how they can make a difference to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...Introduction The history of the Cajuns, the French-speaking minority living in Cajun Country, or Acadiana, in southwest Louisiana, is a story about transnational migration which reaches 400 years into the past. Eighteenth-century Acadian history, especially, features prominently in the Cajuns’ collective consciousness today. In Cajun Country, local legend has it that...
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Article 15 mins
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...managed to get natural playgrounds for children, which is tragic. So why does it matter? The trouble is if you don’t know what it’s like to be cold, if you don’t know what it’s like to be tired and weary, if you don’t know what it’s like to paddle in mud, these things tend to be just pretty pictures. If you live a total urban existence and you hardly ever hear...
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Video 40 mins
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...management or organisational behaviour, in the writings of Geoffrey Vickers, Russell Ackoff or other systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent...
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Video 15 mins
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the most of it. 4. Outsiders against insiders Trump will be the first president without elective office experience since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. Eisenhower,...
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Article 5 mins
The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers

...manage increasingly challenging behaviours of persons with complex physical and/or mental health needs, particularly during the outbreak, as they cannot engage with their usual outdoors coping mechanisms. As highlighted in our BBC1 broadcast on 4 May 2020, the increased demand for coping leaves even less time for carers to engage with physical activity. Carers, due to...
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Article 10 mins
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...managed the delivery of the Democratic Set in Milton Keynes for The Open University, working with Ursula White of Independent Cinema Milton Keynes (ICMK) to engage the widest possible range of local participants though a community liaison programme. An open call was made to recruit participants from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, with 30 groups responding and 131...
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Article 20 mins
Glenariff to Fermanagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Glenariff to Fermanagh

...managed to find their way to places they would not normally be...Video Transcript PAT JESS: Beautiful, absolutely wonderful. DARRYL GRIMASON: Fantastic. PAT JESS: And you really see the flat floor, even though that’s covered with the debris, but the flat floor that the glacier scooped out and running up the steep sides up to the hills. Standing here, you can just...
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Video 5 mins