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From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Open University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works from our cultural past, Frankenstein is...
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and...
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...may evolve rather than disappear, not the least because they are an increasingly popular tourist attraction. This article is an adapted extract from the free course 'Political Ordering', which is adapted from the Open University course Introducing the social sciences (DD102). Mural photographs © Bill Royston Painting from the Same Palette © Mark Ervine and Danny Devenny...
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...course on Cybersecurity: Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) was a United States Army soldier who leaked confidential information, including 250,000 United States diplomatic messages and 500,000 United States Army reports as well as videos of military action in Iraq, to the WikiLeaks website. Manning obtained copies of classified materials during service in Iraq in...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...course of action from a list of options will be asked to choose most and least effective answer; or rate possible answers for effectiveness; or choose one most practical course of action, so must read the instructions carefully! commonly used for many job roles, even at entry-level, sometimes within the online application form/process itself Personality tests evaluates...
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. II We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we had no other mind than to spend the time at the house into which we all but stepped from our train. But we had reckoned without our host, as he was represented by one of a...
Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?
Education & Development

Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?

...the qualifications he obtained at Hogwarts. Being able to articulate his experiences outside school are what makes Harry stand out to his employer, making him such a great example of employability. This article was written with significant input from Martha (aged 11) and Flora (aged 7). Want to be as employable as Harry Potter? Try our FREE courses and explainer videos...