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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...Education Secretary has tabled legislation to prevent ‘unacceptable silencing and censoring’ on campuses. To understand why free speech matters, as well as how we might deal with the difficulties it faces today, we need to understand how the idea came about. What is free speech? Free speech refers to the right to express opinions without censorship or restraint. It is...
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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...educational purpose to the little pictures used to communicate?...Despite their popularity, emoji are still often viewed as a frivolous form of communication. For some, they seem to be a huge step back for civilization.[1] Is it really the case that five and a half thousand years after the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics we’re once again resorting to communication via...
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Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment

...education to take nutrition seriously argues Dr Joyce Cavaye, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University...A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...educated women were rare) and finally, political atmosphere (when authoritarian leadership was the norm). Despite this, she succeeded in her academic pursuits, following up opportunities to study in the West, secure a prestigious job in Kenya and still put local population needs at the heart of her work at grassroots. Her non-conformity meant she paid dearly and...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...educate kids about the world and different cultures,” as the campaign website states. “Education” supposedly also was the aim of the exotic people displays from an earlier period. As I showed above, this was an “education” not in facts, knowledge, understanding and empathy but an “education” into a particular way of viewing the world: one where the foreign...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (Vol. 7). Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River: NJ. Robson. C. (2011) Real world research. Wiley: Cornwall. Further reading: Farrow, R., Iniesto, F., Weller, M. & Pitt., R. (2020) The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook. Open Education Research Hub: The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0....
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Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...Education, Languages and Sport. Click on these links to find out further information on the Masters in Education and Masters in Childhood and Youth. Or you can email WELS-ECYS-Masters@open.ac.uk. Regardless of whether you study this course on its own or as part of a masters course, you will be eligible for an Open University badge if you complete all of the activities and...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...educated. Finally, Section 4 focuses on children’s street play. The street was a place that children once fairly freely occupied and adapted for play in various spontaneous and imaginative ways. Today, of course, streets are, in the main, claimed by moving and parked vehicles. This section includes some memories from adults reflecting on their childhood days spent...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs