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Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...fictional case study which explores some of the issues facing people who are carers in their own homes. To complete the album, Joanna Bornat and Jan Walmsley of The Open University's Faculty of Health and Social Care explain why some of the case studies were selected for study and unpick some of the issues that emerge. This material forms part of The Open University...
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Audio 2 hrs 14 mins
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...learn not just about the books that children are reading, but also about what role reading plays in childhood, and how our ideas about childhood affect the books that they read. In this free course, you will be introduced to some of the key questions that the study of children's literature raises, such as: how do children acquire and use languages and literacies? Why (and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...learned five languages, and was used to meeting her father’s literary friends, including William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb and Coleridge. In 1807 the family moved to Holborn, where Mary could hear the screams of animals being slaughtered in the candlelit abattoirs under Smithfield. As she suffered from poor health, she was sent away for long periods to recuperate. During...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...learned many of her astonishing literary innovations from music – adopting from Wagner’s operas, for example, the technique of shifting from one narrative perspective to another in order to represent the unspoken thoughts and feelings of her characters. The short story ‘A Simple Melody’ (c.1925) encapsulates her acute interest in music and its resonant but...
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Article 10 mins
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...fictional expectations that coordinate action and provide the confidence to act. The various contributors to Uncertain Futures examine how economic actors form expectations and make decisions despite the high level of uncertainty they face. The book demonstrates how grand narratives, central bank forward guidance, economic forecasts, finance models, business plans,...
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Article 10 mins
Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...fiction is a combination of I remember and let’s pretend’. But it wasn’t just anecdotes of life that the Arvon tutors Alicia Stubbersfield and Steve Voake shared in the workshops and tutorials; they also voiced their views and values, both in response to literature and in conversational dialogues around the teachers’ own compositions. Their comments reflected the...
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Article 10 mins
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how language can be used for different purposes understand the importance of form and word choice when addressing different audiences...Form and uses of language: 1.1 Introduction - Apart from writing poetry, Sassoon kept a diary during his war years, and after the war he wrote a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife
Health, Sports & Psychology

Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife

...fictional world of vampires and the real world that we inhabit, death is the adversary that can only be restrained, temporarily held at bay, rather than vanquished. This feeds into some deep-seated fears as to what, if anything, comes next and existential concern regarding the final destination where consciousness goes after death. For some people, fears regarding death...
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Article 5 mins