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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Oates, J., and Stevenson, J. (2005) ‘Temperament and development’, in Oates, J., Wood, C. and Grayson, A. (eds) Psychological Development and Early Childhood, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more...
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...free school meals (FSM) and others, appear to have been aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic (Cole et al., 2022). Boys who received FSM in 2022 were the most likely to report that they never or rarely read; only 1 in 5 reported reading daily, a figure probably amplified by the social desirability bias common to all surveys. Placed alongside international concerns around...
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...spectacle for the western viewer. This spectacle of the “weird but true” Other may cause amusement, pity or disgust in the viewer but, above all, it is designed to bring home to the viewer their own essential difference from, if not superiority to, those exotic foreigners. This article was originally published by Language On The Move under a CC-BY licence...
Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...languages, insights and practices. As a result, you all benefit from a broader mix of opinions, beliefs, skills and approaches. The nature of diversity, though, is endless. Representing this diversity is of itself not something that is achievable within a small group of researchers. It cannot be delivered in a tick box manner, by involving people from a spread of...
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...language or running a marathon? Examples like these can really bring some of the issues with negative self-talk into your conscious. Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones It is important to remember that this inner negative voice only wants to help or protect you in some way: it is a normal, human thing. This doesn’t make the thought right or acceptable, but...
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...language, and even those that do speak the scientific language are people nonetheless. We’re all just human, spiritual beings, and for the environmental movement to include religions, to welcome them, to ask what they’ve got to contribute, not just ask them to do things for them, but to ask you, ‘What can you contribute to where we all need to get to?’ will open...
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...new. Science is an ever-evolving process. And that’s what makes it so exciting. Want to find out more? Listen to Tamsin Edwards speak about her research on the OU/BBC radio programme, Inside Science, read articles from the Climate News Network, or to take your interest further, try a free course or look into studying Environmental Science at the Open University....
PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...free OpenLearn course. Individual football clubs have to survive in a competitive market – competition for players, competition for TV income, competition against other leisure activities. Promotion to the Premier league is the biggest incentive of all: this can boost club income by up to £10m a year. Relegation to the First Division means an instant loss in revenue of...