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Three Irish poets - introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish poets - introduction

...writing in Irish. Her work is widely acclaimed and has been translated by many leading English-language poets. We will look at a single poem by each writer. We hope you will find the poems enjoyable in themselves, as well as giving you an opportunity to explore how this poetry addresses various ideas about nation and gender in an Irish context. We also start to look at...
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Shakespeare: For All Time?
History & The Arts

Shakespeare: For All Time?

...Writing in 1623, Shakespeare’s playwright colleague Ben Jonson described him as “not of an age but for all time,” and the subsequent performance histories of his plays seem to confirm Jonson’s prediction. In 2016, The Open University co-produced a series of short films with BBC World TV entitled “Living Shakespeare,” which explore Shakespeare’s relevance...
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History How-to videos: Paper and ink
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Paper and ink

...writing. If the quality of the ink in your document changes, if it goes from being darker to more faint then it’s likely to be from the 18th Century or before, when people had to dip their pens in the ink far more often. During the 19th century, steel or metal nibs were introduced, which meant that the quality of the ink was much more consistent. If this is the case...
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Globalisation and the English language
History & The Arts

Globalisation and the English language

...writing in English, and although some people talk about Chinese becoming the lingua franca, I don’t think that’s likely to happen for quite some time. I think globalisation will result in people becoming more accepting of differences, of using different connotations, different vocabularies and so on. We don’t own English anymore; that’s quite important. People can...
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Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Write a paragraph about your own experiences of ageing so far. You could write about: whether you feel the same age as your age in years (your chronological age) how you would describe your current age how other people affect your sense of your own ageing how changes to your body make you aware of your ageing what you are looking forward to about growing older what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...writing. Activity 4 Thinking about managing conflict Timing: Allow about 1 hour Jot down examples of two situations when you dealt with conflict. Then choose one of these conflict situations and write a brief outline of the situation. Explain: the style of conflict resolution you adopted, and why – do they relate to any of Kenneth Thomas’s styles? if you made a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...writes about a lively and militant strike by public sector nursery nurses in Scotland...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full...
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Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...creative ideas for content and developing these together. Co-authoring involves building a supportive writing relationship between an academic and a person with lived experience. Co-creation is where people actively participate in all phases of curriculum development. Task-based involvement can include providing feedback on the curriculum, developing audio or video...
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