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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...skills between sports (Tucker & Collins, 2012). This can enhance performance as well as encourage positive psychological and social development through being exposed to different sporting cultures. [Emma Raducanu serving during a tennis match.] Though many tennis players engage in the sport from an early age, the professional rankings between 14 and 18 years do not...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...skills and ability to connect with others through sharing their life experiences and songs. In social work this is called a strengths based approach. I helped some folk find their first external facilitator roles, at first voluntary and then paid. For example, vocal leaders Herbert and Susan were able to connect powerfully with an LGBTQ+ teen group to share both their...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to context, the influence of neighbourhood, cultural background, social and economic situations. A holistic...
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Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'
Society, Politics & Law

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'

...skilled and talented, is it fair that this ability overshadows the trauma they caused to their victims whose welfare is all-too-often forgotten. Role models If sportspeople are often seen as role models a sportsperson cannot be judged only on their sporting success because young people who choose their role models judge them on their moral character as well. Sportspeople...
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Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...skills. Audiences, too, assume that local venues will feature a stream of international performers. It’s also central to the modern popular music economy, especially since the massive disruptions wrought by the internet on the recording industry. Under 6% of the new artists signed to UK major labels last year managed to achieve gold album status – with only three...
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Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...skills and training deficiencies) have continued in spite of benefits of greater peace over the last 25 years. The Troubles are estimated to have reduced Northern Ireland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by up to 10%. GDP per capita that was 20% lower than the overall UK level in 1998, but higher than either Wales or the North East of England. The term peace dividend has...
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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...studies, planning, political science and sociology. The framework developed in this course is meant to serve as an analytical heuristic, a device for framing the questions that should be asked when seeking to understand any particular urban issue or a place-based problem. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Changing...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...study in Sociology...The meaning of crime: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: give a definition of crime (in terms of society) state the steps and factors that lead from a crime to conviction illustrate how society views crime ‘with fear and fascination’ give examples of the relationship between crime rates and the evidence to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs