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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. The end of the twentieth century was marked by significant political and ideological changes in Europe. The fall of communism in the late 1980s, so vividly represented by the crumbling Berlin Wall, ushered the Eastern and Central European countries into an era of democracy and brought with it the capitalist values...
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...course, small farms all over the world, and in many parts of Europe and Britain as well as all over Ireland. In that sense, what we see in the West of Ireland is part of a widespread distribution of this system of agriculture. It is the process of their establishment in the West of Ireland that is distinctive, representing a clash between the remnants of a particular...
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Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...Open University's Social Sciences and History courses. [A women worker on the railways, first world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles, trousers, gold...
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Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. Let’s start with our terminology regarding autistic individuals. Many autistic self-advocates insist on an ‘identity first’ definition of their humanness: for example: ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘person with autism’. To clarify, autistic people see autism as an innate part of their embodiment; just...
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Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...Open University Course K315 Critical social work practice... Critical social work practice A short introduction to this album. What is critical practice? A look at the meaning of critical practice, the views of service users, and the professional power of social workers. How useful is critical practice? An example of critical practice. Making decisions about people A...
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Creative Writing
History & The Arts

Creative Writing

...Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing... Tanika Gupta on Voice Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. Helen Blakeman and Setting Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and...
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Jumpstart University
Education & Development

Jumpstart University

Aimed to help students starting university this year to prepare for and settle into their studies, the Jumpstart University hub has been developed by The Open University in collaboration with the Russell Group.
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