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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...management in areas where transmission persists. Migrant workers and travellers in affected regions should also be vaccinated to prevent spread of the virus. Countries and areas with strong travel links to affected countries and with a local vector, such as China, should implement outbreak preparedness by improving surveillance and stockpiling emergency vaccinations. Read...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...managing the eligibility process. Professor Burns said: “I was hoping to say that we would have more intellectually disabled athletes in Rio than London, however there are other factors this year which have skewed this, one factor being that Russia’s athletes are excluded and their places are currently being allocated. “However, I am absolutely thrilled with the...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...managers by Industry Week magazine found recession-battered stalwarts of major firms low on morale and gloomy about the future. This, concluded the magazine, was very much a winter of discontent. 1985 The BBC had a go at refreshing the cliche, trying to paint a soggy late summer bank holiday as a "summer of discontent" (with Ian McCaskill apparently afraid to even tell...
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Rheoli amser ac astudio
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rheoli amser ac astudio

...management] ‘Does dim dianc rhag y ffaith y gall bywyd fod yn brysur iawn a bod llawer i’w jyglo. Gall Cynlluniwr Amser Y Brifysgol Agored eich helpu chi weld yn union sut allwch chi wneud amser i astudio o gwmpas eich ymrwymiadau eraill. Drwy ddefnyddio cynlluniwr, gallwch amserlennu popeth sy’n digwydd, pob apwyntiad a thasg fel nad ydych chi’n mynd yn brin o...
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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...manage emotions, build relationships, seize opportunities and make responsible decisions. SEL has been promoted by CASEL (1994) and conceptualised by scholars such as Dewey, Vygotsky and Goleman, all of whom emphasise the importance of relationships, emotions and social interaction in learning. In crisis-adaptive contexts, our studies reconceptualise SEL as an evolving,...
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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...management agreement, training courses, mentoring). If an action plan is too far from the coachee’s current knowledge, skills or situation, then they may become discouraged and demotivated. Moreover, when designing actions, a crucial aspect is that coachee has the responsibility for carrying these out. Therefore, the coach can make a difference by helping coachees...
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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...Introduction - In this free course, Social psychology and politics, you will look at how social psychology can help you to better understand politics. You will explore how and why people engage with politics, e.g. through social movements, protests and activism. You might be asking yourself: why would a social psychologist be interested in all of this, rather than a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...Introduction - It is now over 70 years since the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – a terrifying dystopian novel in which a totalitarian state maintains psychological and physical control over a joyless, fearful population. Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a political system in which order is imposed on the population through ideological...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs