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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...history – the position generally taken by young people - or whether purchasing the products meant somehow endorsing the values of 'the sex industry' to which the brand was inextricably linked. And even if it were the latter, should one explain this to children? - As one mother argued, 'you don't want to force them to think about things that they're innocently thinking...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...history, community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms...
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About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...history with broadcasting written into the script. To this end, we have made three ebooks which draw directly on our sample of fifty hours of BBC programmes. The ebooks will be free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper...
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Article 5 mins
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out live us. Not only that but it will see numerous of generations live and die - the tree. [Cathy and tree] Trees have been growing on earth since before the human population arrived. This tree is 400 years old, which means that it...
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...family and how that translates in business settings appreciate the importance of speaking a little Chinese say some greetings in Chinese. This OpenLearn taster course is an adapted extract from the Open University short course LG002 Chinese business culture essentials...Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials: 1 What is culture? - What do you think of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...history, of civilisation have become emblematic of modernity and rational knowledge, their majestic architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be viewed as technologies themselves for self-improvement and a...
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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...families. The government is currently exploring amendments to existing law to create a shared understanding, which will support a clearer response to this problem. This change in the law will treat the people perpetrating the exploitation as criminals and the children and young people as victims. At the moment this isn’t always so, partly because children in this...
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Video 5 mins
Design in a nutshell
Science, Maths & Technology

Design in a nutshell

Get the lowdown on 6 key design movements and share your design alter-ego...Want to learn about six of the most important movements in design history? Watch these short animations: Gothic revival Transcript Arts and Crafts Transcript Bauhaus Transcript Modernism Transcript American Industrial design Transcript Postmodernism Transcript
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Activity 15 mins