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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...adult: The childhood routes of adult happiness E M Hallowell The pursuit of happiness from Scientific American, 274 D G Myers & F Diener The Optimistic Child M E P Seligman, K Reivich, L Jaycox and J Gillham From the web: EEG asymmetry Attachment theory Positive Psychology Centre The BBC and the Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...Publishing Ltd Town and Country Edited by A Barnett & R Scruton, Jonathan Cape Analysis of Responses to the Discussion Document "Quality in Town and Country" Department of the Environment, The Stationery Office Books If you think you might be interested in studying more about these subjects, find out more about the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University....
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Open University's Law courses. Why would we need a theory to understand jury decision making? To answer this, it helps to think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...Open University module A111, Discovering the arts and humanities. Many of the owners of such houses also maintained estates in England and in other parts of the British Empire. The management of an Irish estate was frequently left in the hands of middlemen, often Catholic, who focused their attention on maximising rents from tenant farmers rather than on agricultural...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...Open University academics Sara de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...open up, and do what matters." (Harris, 2019). The first step, 'acceptance', is often the hardest; not accepting a situation makes it difficult to move forward, difficult to look at the different opportunities and options. If one does not accept a situation, one is less likely to accept any reasons for personal change. As a result, a person may become reluctant to change,...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...opens up conversations between readers about their views and values, lives and experiences, it enables us as humans to consider who we are, what we and others stand for and what we feel about personal, social and cultural issues. Such conversations cannot be left to chance. They are a crucial element in a rigorously planned and responsively executed reading for pleasure...
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