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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...managing the eligibility process. Professor Burns said: “I was hoping to say that we would have more intellectually disabled athletes in Rio than London, however there are other factors this year which have skewed this, one factor being that Russia’s athletes are excluded and their places are currently being allocated. “However, I am absolutely thrilled with the...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...managers by Industry Week magazine found recession-battered stalwarts of major firms low on morale and gloomy about the future. This, concluded the magazine, was very much a winter of discontent. 1985 The BBC had a go at refreshing the cliche, trying to paint a soggy late summer bank holiday as a "summer of discontent" (with Ian McCaskill apparently afraid to even tell...
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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...manage emotions, build relationships, seize opportunities and make responsible decisions. SEL has been promoted by CASEL (1994) and conceptualised by scholars such as Dewey, Vygotsky and Goleman, all of whom emphasise the importance of relationships, emotions and social interaction in learning. In crisis-adaptive contexts, our studies reconceptualise SEL as an evolving,...
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Rheoli amser ac astudio
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rheoli amser ac astudio

...management] ‘Does dim dianc rhag y ffaith y gall bywyd fod yn brysur iawn a bod llawer i’w jyglo. Gall Cynlluniwr Amser Y Brifysgol Agored eich helpu chi weld yn union sut allwch chi wneud amser i astudio o gwmpas eich ymrwymiadau eraill. Drwy ddefnyddio cynlluniwr, gallwch amserlennu popeth sy’n digwydd, pob apwyntiad a thasg fel nad ydych chi’n mynd yn brin o...
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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...Introduction - This course investigates certain philosophical issues concerning imagination, creativity and the relationships between them, and considers the conceptions and varieties of imaginative experience. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...project itself has been mishandled by powerful vested interests on the part of elites across the whole of the EU and that increasingly these interests have been propagated by similar interests within the European bureaucracy itself. What began as a response to a dreadful 19th and 20th century history of wars, pogroms and massive exploitation of man by man, has become a...
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Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...manager in a mental health facility and Alan is a trained chef who is currently not working. Although they are very different as individuals, the audio clearly reveals how seriously panic can affect anyone’s life. Listen to the following audio and then answer the question below. NATALIE I just thought I was going mad – TIM Yeah – definitely ALAN Yeah – definitely...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...Introduction - This free course, Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice, will explore some specific examples of the tensions and debates linked to the aim of achieving literacy for all. You will focus on the current discourse related to the teaching of the technical aspects of literacy to a ‘sufficient standard’ and also on different perspectives related to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs