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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...adult life whilst the real perpetrator walked free. Jerry Miller’s case was the 200th case the US Innocence Project successfully appealed using DNA evidence. Eye witness identifications played a role in 77% of these wrongful convictions." To find out more read the full article Misidentification: Can you identify the criminal? 2: You'll get called a 'blue flower' in...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...adult prison population is Aboriginal. Furthermore, Aboriginal young people represent 4 per cent of the Western Australian population, yet make up around 80 per cent of all youths in detention (Hughes, 2009, p. 125). Policy interventions tend to remain focused on cultural explanations – that is, ‘the Aboriginal problem’ – for this over-representation. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...adults to take climate change seriously, while simultaneously dismissing, pathologising or even criminalising their attempts to make their voices heard. Activity 2 Coping with emotions Timing: Allow about 25 minutes Part 1 Watch the following video, which focuses on the anxiety that children and young people experience in relation to the climate emergency. IMMIE If...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...adults (often professional musicians and musicians working in the community) take place in venues such as youth clubs. It is important to note that these are not unstructured or unplanned sessions – the difference lies in the way the music educators who lead them tend to come to the session not with fixed ideas about what is to be learned and how learning will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...adult manner than would otherwise be the case – even if deadlock seems to apparent...Week 4: Problem solving and decision making: Week 4 quiz - This quiz gives you the opportunity to check your understanding of the subjects you have covered in Weeks 3 and 4. It consists of eight questions and will help you to assess your own progress. Week 4 quiz Open the quiz in a new...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...adults (Rix et al, 2009). Sharing values is never certain, however, and neither is collaboration. Perhaps it is not surprising that there is much confusion over what the term ‘collaboration’ means as well as little robust research into its impact and effective delivery. What research there is suggests that its implementation is inconsistent (Kennedy & Stewart 2011) or...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...adult working hours from 12 to 10. Initially however, not all of Owen’s reforms were met with approval from the workforce. Lorna Davidson They were used to the idea that children earned money, that as soon as they could earn a few pennies for the family they would be working. So when Robert Owen said “your’re not going to do this” they were thinking, “well this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...adults. Before the age of 5 years, it is difficult to confirm asthma as a diagnosis (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2020). The next activity will allow you to explore the assessment and diagnostic process for children and young people. Activity 2 Guidance on assessment and diagnosis of asthma Timing: Allow 60 minutes You will need to access the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs