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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...conception of fostering? This article explores the reality behind the myths and what fostering means for our communities...Find out about The Open University's Social Work and Early Years courses The concept of foster care emerged in the mid-16th century, becoming regulated in the mid-19th century. This history is poignant and has shaped our understanding of who are...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...concept emerging in research literature. This is when patients or service users search for organisations or individual health and social care workers using the Internet. Ryan et al. (2019) discussed this concept with some members of the public and there is evidence to suggest it can have both a positive and negative effect on the perceptions of an individual or...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...concept of judgement became more prominent. Three judges called Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus reviewed each soul as it arrived to determine where it would spend eternity. The Elysian Fields became more attainable for everyday mortals, as long as they had lived morally good lives and fulfilled their civic and social duties. [White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides...
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What do genes do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do genes do?

...concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation...This free course, What do genes do?, explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation....What do genes do?: Introduction - This course...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...concept of sex education was invented. Such popularity makes us question assumptions about how people in the pre-modern world learned about sex. Often we suppose that rural people like John Cannon did not need to consult books to learn about sex; they lived “closer to nature”, and could abstract what they saw in the barnyard to the bedroom. The most common euphemism...
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Article 10 mins
Perceptions of English literature
History & The Arts

Perceptions of English literature

...of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... How English is English literature? Can we still consider English literature English? What is English literature? Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. New voices During the wave of independence many writers from the de-colonised countries began to have their work published....
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...concepts of themselves as male or female play a critical role in encouraging children to identify and endorse gender roles. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. The book that contained Mischel’s (1966) account of the social learning approach to gender development also included Lawrence Kohlberg’s...
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Article 15 mins
It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round
Society, Politics & Law

It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round

...de Kirchner at a fever pitch, Argentina is suddenly facing its first ever presidential runoff. Against all predictions, the provisional results from the first round show the ruling Victory Front (VF) candidate Daniel Scioli with a tight lead of 36.78%, followed by the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) coalition with 34.40%. Former Kirchner ally Sergio Massa of A New Alternative...
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