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Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?
Languages

Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?

...open their minds to the meaning of language while at the same time conveying the innocence of a past era. Surely, these are also worthwhile educational goals. Judy Blume (1938) once said that children should be able to read whatever they want and then talk about it with adults. If parents and children can talk together, she argued, we will not have as much censorship...
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Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK

...Open University Coastal Concern Action Group (CCAG) http://happisburgh.org.uk/ccag/ Accessed 20th December 2019 Edwards, T. (2017) Future of the Sea: Current and Future Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the UK, FORESIGHT, Government Office for Science
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...Open University continues to focus research on issues of migration and narratives from those with backgrounds of seeking asylum. The Covid Chronicles from the Margins project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world. [Refugee cartoon, society matters] While the...
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...Open University’s version of a classic simulation, known as the beer game. The beer game lets you experience problems of supply chains. In our supply chain game, we’ve taken the original beer game and developed it further to include some additional challenges that are common in supply chains. You'll manage the process for one of the UK's most popular items - cans of...
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...Open University's Open degree qualification. Tense parents and stressed children. A competitive high pressure home environment. Pressing kids to do well in school. Putting children through private tutoring and coaching classes with the aim of getting them into grammar schools and prestigious universities. Anxiety about educational achievement hangs over the parent–child...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...Open University's Classical Studies qualifications The Underworld The earliest Ancient Greek poetry features descriptions of the Underworld. Also known as Hades, this was the destination for souls after the death of the physical body. The soul – a wispy and insubstantial image of the deceased – would emerge from the corpse and flit away on its next journey, often...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...Open University’s Geography Department. [Marx as fashion] Transcript Andy Morris (AM): Hello, I'm Andy Morris and I'm joined today by my colleague from the Geography Department at The Open University, Philip O’Sullivan, to find out a little about the fascinating work and extraordinary life story of Peter Kropotkin, a Russian geographer who died almost a hundred years...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...opened his eyes – Algeria was a Mecca for all this circle: no Protestant obfuscations there. Gide [nineteenth/twentieth century French novelist] fell for a voluptuous native boy, Athman, who must have been very satisfying in contrast to Madeleine, and got his fellow-traveller, Henri Ghéon … to bring this morsel of humanity back to Paris. (p. 186) It is hard to...
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