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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...become a label that unhelpfully ‘sticks’ to people, prejudicing how they are treated by services and limiting the opportunities available to them. As Ben highlighted in the example he gave from his own practice, practitioners need to engage with the person and their needs and take a reflective and critical perspective with regards to labels that have been previously...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...become institutions as they become established and recognised as standing for something more than themselves; they come to embody and express important social norms and values. This can perhaps be seen most obviously in a global context, with organisations such as the World Bank or the United Nations. But it is no less true at a local level where, for example, a school...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...becomes the most interesting aspect of the work. According to Foucault, critics invent a variable idea of an author and of authorship that depends entirely upon their own preconceptions. An important contribution by Foucault is what he calls the ‘discourse’ surrounding an author. Foucault developed the idea of a ‘discursive formation’ as an alternative to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...become elevated to a legal significance such that governments must honour them and ensure that their domestic laws respect these rights even though this may lead to the interests of a minority being upheld against the views of a majority of the population. The manner in which rights can become law is discussed in Part C, with particular reference to how English law has...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...become particularly important in the context of books for children. As anyone who has watched a small child ‘reading’ a picture book will know, young children are able to derive a great deal of meaning and pleasure from the activity, even when they cannot yet decode the letters and words. They are able to make connections between the pictures and the words of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...OU student, and now to an OU member of staff supporting the Students in Secure Environments team. Read more about Stephen’s story in the following article: From prisoner to OU student and staff member...Session 8: A new era for prison education?: Where next? - If you’ve enjoyed this course you can find more free resources and courses on OpenLearn. ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...students who have studied and used systems thinking: Frances Chapman: Systems thinking is important for me because it helps extend my apparently natural way of thinking, providing tools for handling the complexity more adequately and helping deepen understanding; particularly regarding interactions – where once I would have known they were there but remained unsure of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...become more variable, and world markets less predictable. Therefore food security within the UK is more important than ever. It is vital we value our agricultural land and the people who produce our food. To attain food security, we need to match sustainable systems to the crops best suited to them and to develop people’s awareness of production systems with the aim of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs