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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...social context to such activities and this has its own benefits of feeling part of a group and making social contact with others The activities are experienced as meaningful and can lead to the development of new skills, a sense of achievement, responsibility and increased confidence. [Part of a parterre in an English garden.] Having worked as a ‘horticultural...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...works best within the social, political and economic conditions of any given society and not be bound by outdated or moralistic traditions. Abolitionism is a step-by-step process. Alternatives to the criminal process must be understood within the wider envelope of a commitment to social and transformative justice. Alternatives mean building a society in which the...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...working across health and social care policy and service provision. At the very least, core parameters will be set in terms of research focus and overarching aims. Secondly, the extant evidence base; hence, the all-important review of the literature to identify research priorities in the field of interest. This is explored in greater detail in another OpenLearn article in...
Bullying and Manipulation: Join the Resistance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Bullying and Manipulation: Join the Resistance

...work, school and even on Twitter at the hands of Donald Trump...We all have an imperative role to play in stopping bullying behaviour. But have you ever wondered what strategies we can use, both to manage our own responses to bullies, but also to maintain contexts where this behaviour is discouraged? This short interactive experience explores the psychology of bullying...
The Open University and SWAP Learning Hub
Education & Development

The Open University and SWAP Learning Hub

...work.] [An infographic highlight the benefits of OpenLearn for earning while you learn.] [An infographic highlighting the benefits of OpenLearn for studying free courses.] [An infographic highlighting the benefits of OpenLearn for studying.] Introductory level courses in Law and Business Suggested courses for SWAP Access to Law and Business students. More Introductory...
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...social attitudes towards women and work. Here we have hard evidence that it was not only men who performed heavy, dangerous and dirty industrial manual labour in the Victorian coal mining industry. Moreover, as Angela V. John has shown, in the 1880s and again just before the First World War, women pit brow workers struggled to defend the legal right to perform this work...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...social interactionist approach in social psychology (from the work of George Herbert Mead, 1863–1931), Becker suggested that how others define us may well shape how we act: if we are labelled as ‘bad’ or ‘criminal’, we might start to live up to the label. Equally, the label may shape how others treat us – once labelled, people identified as criminals or...
Wales: Culture and identity
Society, Politics & Law

Wales: Culture and identity

...work, and political and cultural representation in Wales. This material forms part of The Open University course D172 Contemporary Wales... Rugby and Welsh identity Gareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby. Place and belonging in Wales Graham Day connects place, with the...