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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...reaction to death more generally, rather than anything specific about social media. We’re still unsure whether it’s best to conceal our reactions to death and cope with them privately, away from everyday activities. Or whether to make them visible, to share our emotional responses and incorporate the fact of death and grieving as a part of everyday life. More on emoji...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...everyday environmental challenges alongside keeping in mind the bigger picture of climate crisis and social injustice? Democracy that includes the non-human An approach I find helpful is to acknowledge the limits of our power and knowledge as adults and, with and alongside children, to ask questions about what we do and how we feel. We need to think about how social...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that students’ incorrect ideas can lead them to reject what they are taught. Even when teachers provide evidence that...
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...English and Scottish governments establishing working parties to develop legislation and regulations analysing psychological risks to under-18s featured in performances, including television appearances. I contributed to this on behalf of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Our finding was of multiple risks, including harms such as distress, trauma, negative attitude...
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Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...everyday life Hear about the breath of areas in psychology and the diversity this field offers For anyone who is a psychology student, the presentations may also provide a chance to develop ideas for your own project or research study. Transcript The presentations took place on Thursday 27 January 2022 as part of the OpenTalks series of events run by The Open University...
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...English is the language of industry and commerce and industrialisation and tourism had increased regular contact with the English-speaking outside world.To retain what was left of an Irish-speaking culture, employment was needed, and that meant bringing in manufacturing industry. But wouldn’t this undermine the unique culture still further? Would the cure kill the...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...English Language and Literature BA with the Open University, she also discovered OpenLearn! ‘I hadn’t studied for almost 30 years and wanted to get my brain back into learning mode before my course started, so I did the Being an OU student induction course on OpenLearn to help me get to grips with the site,’ Charity explained. ‘I found that course interesting, so...
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Speak in colours!
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Speak in colours!

...English we can say ‘I’m feeling blue’ or ‘I saw red’). Evoking a colour can be a striking way of conveying a vivid impression of the mood or physical appearance of an individual. All languages do this since colours have strong connotations (even if in different cultures, colours are not always invested with the same symbolic meaning, however we will not be...
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