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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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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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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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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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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...Open University, suggests that primary sources contain both intentional and unintentional evidence. In our example there is the deliberate message conveyed by the photograph – the pose, demeanour and expression of the women. Then there is the unintended information it conveys about the contemporary interest in women workers. We are told this is one of forty-nine studio...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...etc. It is always essential to ‘cite’ all references, in particular from online sources. Reflect on how reading the writings of Herodotus and reviewing the commentaries by other reliable sources makes you a ‘researcher’ using ‘open enquiry’, rather than a ‘consumer’ of history as a set of ‘facts’. How does this make you feel about the study of history?...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...open competition. The role of social critics Nevertheless, much as Huskisson and Baines celebrated the advance of manufactures, perceptions were also being shaped by social critics of the new industrial era. Against Baines’s book one might set Peter Gaskell’s The Manufacturing Population of England (1833), an indictment of a factory-based existence. There were...
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