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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...adults being overweight or obese (predominantly focusing on obesity), including a person’s lifestyle. When Level/Year 2 Open University students from the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care were asked to consider this question, more than two-thirds selected ‘Yes – a little (being overweight is somewhat to do with a person’s lifestyle)’. The results were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...adult weight, reaching 90% of adult size by age five. Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, 2021 ‘Brain-based learning’ (BBL) is receiving increasing attention in the popular and professional fields. But what exactly is it? Before we explore the idea further it is important to understand the brain as we currently know it. The diagram of the brain (below) will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...care of our mental health is especially important as we get older and Green and Blue spaces are well recognised for making a substantial difference. But it’s not always easy for older people, carers, care home residents and people living with dementia to go outdoors for a walk and it’s not always easy for those with caring responsibilities to take loved ones or...
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Article 10 mins
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...care services for children, elders, the poor, the disabled and other vulnerable people are now provided by what are called social or multi-stakeholder cooperatives. A multi-stakeholder cooperative, explains P2P Foundation president Michel Bauwens in an interview with Shareable magazine, can include workers, producers, consumers, owners, volunteers and community activists....
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Article 5 mins
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...adult corruption. Ideas of children's innocence, gentleness and kindness can be traced back to the Romantic period in European history, characterized by philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and poets such as William Wordsworth. For the Romantics, children had a visionary quality and represented humanity in its uncorrupted state. They were born good and lacking in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...cared for her husband through motor neurone disease to the end of his life, describes her experience of grief and becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from care giver to a self-published author...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my husband Alan was dying, one...
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Article 5 mins
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...How did the revolution inspire and inform de Sade's writing, if at all? The historical aspect and de Sade's personal experiences are analysed and explained. Horror and imprisonment Imprisoned for much of his adult life, de Sade's writings are rife with institutional motifs. This discussion highlights and explains principal autobiographical and fictional examples....
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Audio 48 mins
My abortion experience: Daisy's story
Health, Sports & Psychology

My abortion experience: Daisy's story

...care of women requesting induced abortion. Evidence-based clinical guideline number 7 from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Decision-making support within the integrated care pathway for women considering or seeking abortion – guidance for commissioners executive summary or full guidance Family Planning Association – for information about sexual...
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Video 5 mins