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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...becomes harmonious and the pieces fall into place of themselves. But the first days, by God, it is such a bewildering chaos of colours that your poor imagination is dazzled ... There is much jostling and arguing and fighting and rolling on the ground ... Semitic syllables crack the air like whiplashes. You brush against all the costumes of the Orient. (pp. 79–80) As...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...become particularly low during the post-war years. Since the 1980s, income distribution has become more unequal again. Also other recent studies have come to the conclusion that economic inequality hampers economic growth and is associated with a phenomenon called secular stagnation – slow average economic growth (Shen and Zhao, 2023).This is because economic growth...
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...becoming fully anchored in a ‘common European home’. When something like this common home emerged in 2004 with the yet further enlargement of the EU, though, it was not one that lacked an ideological framework. This time it was the dogma of the free market that had come to prevail (in association, of course, with the global supremacy of the United States), and in a...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...OU), in partnership with Dance Educates and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The video in this article shows a brief activity to illustrate how movement can be used to embody learning. Critically, it’s important to emphasise with the Dancemotion approach as a whole, it is the teachers’ and children’s interest and engagement with the content...
LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...OU collection exploring why Good Friday Agreement matters 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring why the Good Friday Agreement is relevant to our lives 25 years since its signing. New energy: why the Good Friday Agreement helped the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement There has never been a better time to be LGBTQIA+...
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...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/...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...become increasingly clear that these assertions are fundamentally wrong and there are numerous examples where sport and politics mix only too well. This free course examines how sport and politics exist, support and challenge one another through the contextual backdrop of the football World Cup...Occasionally, controversies arise that remind us of the link between sport...
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National on what was the 173rd running of the event, while in September 2021 Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to reach the final of a Professional Darts Corporation final. You would be right to think it is about time we started to see women and men competing on an equal footing. However, it has taken until the second...