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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...become a controversial theory and approach in the UK. The Department for Education has opposed the teaching of CRT in schools (September 2020) and the current UK government debated the teaching of CRT in schools in the House of Commons declaring itself ‘unequivocally against’ it. Proponents of CRT have critiqued the backlash from the government as a misinterpretation...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...become a professional sports person, and this will help support him in keeping healthy. Food was something which was discussed regularly in the interviews. Some participants spent more time cooking during lockdown and trying new recipes. For example, a twenty-one-year-old said that cooking took her mind off things as she had been experiencing high anxiety. She lost a...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...become celebrated national figures (or been subject to forms of revisionism in assessments of their personal lives). Fictional works can present incommensurable meanings or develop multiple perspectives, and their capacity to sustain different interpretation is what makes them so fascinating. Literary works are also inescapably of their time, and solidarity with...
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Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...students revising for exams where it has been found to improve recall. For example if you had to take a psychology exam you could make up mental images of some of the research you have read about and arrange these images in a logical sequence around your home. Using mental images to organise our thoughts can make our thinking and remembering much more efficient. However...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...become essential to children’s learning in primary schools across the UK and further afield. Whatever your learning support role in schools may be, you are part of this historic development. For convenience, we have adopted the generic term ‘teaching assistant’ throughout this free course, Teaching assistants: Support in action. We use these words in preference to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...become like one of those long running soap operas on the TV that just goes on and on in repetitive circles without ever reaching any sort of conclusion. So, as a philosopher, I think I’m interested in much more general questions than you are as a religious studies scholar. Not questions about a particular practice relating to immortality, but questions about the concept...
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The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...become infected by viruses or by the few types of bacteria and protists that can ‘hide’ inside the cells of their host (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that cause TB, can do this). Without the cytotoxic T cells, we would be particularly susceptible to infectious diseases caused by these pathogens. The other T cell type is called the helper T cells. They send...
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