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Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law
Society, Politics & Law

Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law

...and its shortcomings. Adoption and donor tracing Adoption lawyers and researchers of assisted conception discuss the rights of artificially-conceived and adopted children and their parents. Freedom of speech A current affairs journalist, a human rights lawyer and an academic debate issues around freedom of speech and to what extent the law should intervene to restrict it....
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Audio 2 hrs 3 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...Research, Critique. Rev. edn. London: Rowman and Littlefield. Cole, A. Brown, A., Clark, C. and Picton, I. (2022) Children and young people’s reading engagement in 2022: Continuing insight into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on reading, London, National Literacy Trust. Cremin, T. and Coles, B. (2022) Children’s Reading Choices: What are children choosing to read...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...children’s learning, but then life often moves faster than the supply of research evidence. As we have indicated, volunteers are often invited into schools to assist teachers, and teaching assistants are employed without necessarily having any specific training (although, increasingly, in-service training is being made available). However, as we have suggested,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...research. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring Psychology 2...This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...Centre has worked in partnership with The Freedom Law Clinic (FLC), a not-for-profit company providing pro bono research and advice on appeals for people who have been convicted of very serious criminal offences but who are maintaining their innocence. Over the summer of 2020, FLC recognised that students needed additional virtual experiential learning opportunities and...
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Video 10 mins
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...children's books? Professor Natalia Kucirkova explores...In the pre-COVID-19 era, children’s personalised books used to be a niche market. Far from their early prototypes that merely had the child’s name stuck on the book cover, today’s personalised books feature entire families – including pets – and claim to boost children’s self-esteem and ......
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Article 15 mins
Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...Research Stories In this podcast we find out about fascinating research projects throughout the UK. Patricia Ragazzon chats to researchers from the University of Nottingham about innovations in nanotubes and David Smith finds out about how we might be able to grow a cure for malaria. We also talk to David Gamblin, an Associate Lecturer, about what he enjoys about working...
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Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
Miscellaneous

Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix

...children could fail at school due to an obsession with individual assessment, literacy skills and the right kind of behaviour, according to an OU academic. Jonathan Rix, Professor of Participation and Learning Support in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies at The Open University, will deliver his inaugural lecture on Why school is bad for us – lessons...
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Article 5 mins