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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...change in culture is needed, in which teachers and politicians recognise that we don’t necessarily ‘know’ what works best – we need evidence that something works teachers need better access to the outcomes of research teachers need to understand how research works so that they can become critical consumers teachers need access to networks where they can engage...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...change can you identify with nineteenth century concerns with education for citizenship? Finally, what points are made about the implications for welfare provision, of thinking of children as active citizens rather than future citizens? Children's rights part 1 (10.5 minutes 5 MB) Esther Saraga This tape is intended to add to the issues raised in the TV programme on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...change. Discussion This is intended to raise your awareness of how you respond to the doping in sport issue. The above initial impressions may be derived from why you think people dope and why you think it is a problem in sport. In the next part of the activity you will explore your perspective further, since it is interesting to explore your perspective further and see...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...changed tissues. These techniques have become some of the most important weapons in our fight against disease. When considering drugs used for the treatment of disease, your first thoughts might lean towards treatments involving organic compounds. But metals and their compounds have been used for medical applications since ancient times. The use of metal-containing drugs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...change in her life. With her husband and three children, Anne had uprooted in 2002 from one part of the country to another. The Learning Lives project gave Anne the opportunity to tell stories about this life-changing transition. This reading is in the following sections: meet Anne and find out a bit about her the themes of Anne’s ‘life story’ how her life story...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...change of climate or locality; as well as in the case of those who become troubled by pain over the heart when they have not vomited for several days. Nor am I unaware that in such cases there is prescribed rest, but that is not always within the reach of those who are obliged to be busy; nor does rest act in the same way with everybody. Accordingly I allow that vomiting...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...changing views on the acceptability of these interventions. Read the full research at Aberdeen University Research Archive: Food Control - Consumer acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in the poultry food chain Is the European objection to chlorine-washed chicken a new thing? Not at all - in fact, the question of what happens to chickens has been an...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...change this interpretation? Researchers have designed programs that help students see difficulty with schoolwork as a signal of importance – something of value to be engaged with rather than something impossible to be avoided. One such intervention yielded improved academic outcomes at least two full school years later. There are also ways that teachers can (carefully)...
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