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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...concepts of the Resilient Learning Ecology into practical steps for programme design, intervention and formative assessment. [CARE-KNOW-DO graphic to enhance children includes words: zone of emotional safety, embodied dialogue and graduated agency ] The Zone of Emotional Safety (ZES) provides the foundation where children feel secure enough to learn. ZES is vital for...
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How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...concept of a good death now.Another common feature of the good death trope is that the dying person is in familiar surroundings. This is often read to mean their own home, and has been a key policy driver in end-of-life care to increase the amount of people dying at home (rather than hospital) for the past 10 years. Its reverse – dying in an unfamiliar place, like a...
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Britain's Great War: The darkest hour - guide & clips
History & The Arts

Britain's Great War: The darkest hour - guide & clips

...prompts the government to police the nation's bedrooms. A full-length documentary film of fighting in the trenches breaks all box office records—but will it push a shocked British public into demanding peace at any price? The Great War from the OU & the BBC This episode was first broadcast on Monday February 10, 2014 on BBC One. For more information, and a link to watch...
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How to write to a lover
History & The Arts

How to write to a lover

...prompt after I swiped right—that he only read in emoji—was generated by the app, not something he’d written. I sent him three emojis: rain, a coffee mug, and a book. His response was quick: a laugh, a guess that it was raining, and that I was reading in a coffee shop. We agreed to meet at an outdoor café near my flat. He was seated when I first saw him, so it...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...de-clutter'. Both the BBC and other channels have television series about ‘collectaholics’ and hoarders who meet counsellors persuading them to ‘de-clutter’. There are of course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material...
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Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...de la mañana? What do you normally do at ten o’clock in the morning? Desayuno a las diez de la mañana. I have breakfast at ten o’clock in the morning. To say what you do in a specific part of the day: ¿Qué haces normalmente por la tarde? What do you normally do in the afternoon? Por la tarde paseo. I go for a walk in the afternoon. Note the contrast between a las...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...concept of wellbeing is intended to be holistic and cover the entire life course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this article, we’ll outline what...
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Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...de tourisme, l’hôtel de ville will all normally be found in large towns or cities. You will usually see la gendarmerie, le syndicat d’initiative and la mairie in smaller towns or villages, although this distinction is becoming less pronounced. La police nationale and la gendarmerie are both police forces, but they serve different government ministries and in theory...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs