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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Open University's History courses and qualifications and Early Years courses and qualifications. [Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between)....
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...Open University's Environment courses. Digital carbon footprints and the remote workforce Today many companies find themselves at the intersection of two global workforce megatrends – distributed, remote workforces and the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. These two trends have disrupted the notion of the workplace and the employer’s sphere of workforce...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...Open University's Language courses and qualifications. Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who refuses to integrate, a “Verweigerer” is a “conscientious objector” or a “refusenik.” The principal characteristic of a “Integrationsverweigerer” is that...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture Portsmouth Point, written in 1925, also invokes a romanticised history of Britain as a great sea power. Walton drew inspiration from a print by the English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Rowlandson's...
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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...course the criticism was, ‘Well, that’s just natural history, that’s not science.’ But what Tinbergen did, and this was his major contribution, was that he showed that you can enjoy quantified observation. Quantified observation was the essence of his work; that is to say you didn’t just sit with your binoculars and say, ‘Oh look, there’s a so-and-so.’ You...
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Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...the joker and it begs the question if we create heroes will we also create villains? Explore superheroes in more detail Want to find out more about contemporary sport? The Open University has produced a new module 'Exploring contemporary issues in sport and exercise' which has it's first presentation in October 2016. Visit our course page to find out more and sign up....
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Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?

...open up to the possibility of a diplomatic resolution. After 20 months of negotiations, framework agreements, extensions and the most intensive diplomatic engagement between the US and Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was agreed in July 2015. As has been highlighted before, when the deal was struck, the...
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Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...courses and public awareness campaigns will be vital. Third, a clear implementation gap is emerging in many countries in the prioritisation of locations that are protected. It is incredibly difficult to cost accurately for designed-in security. Hence a business case for measures that are solely associated with terrorism can be hard to build. Developers are, in most cases,...
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