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Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project
Society, Politics & Law

Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project

...children...[Children interacting with New Union Flag project] Artist Gil Mualem-Doron, and Dr Giota Alevizou, from The Open University – the lead author of this unit – run The DIY Diversity Flag. The aim of the workshop was for primary school pupils to map out diversity that exists in their daily life, culture and community. This mapping was explored and represented...
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...Centre for Social Research. Available at: https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/ media/ 39363/ bsa_36.pdf (Accessed: 14 April 2022). Dent, K. (2021) ‘Jewish speaker: Meet John and hear him talk about his Jewish faith’, Faith and Belief Forum. Available at: https://faithbeliefforum.org/ aiovg_videos/ jewish-speaker-meet-john-and-hear-him-talk-about-his-jewish-faith/ (Accessed:...
What are nerve agents - and what do they do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are nerve agents - and what do they do?

...researchers were trying to make cheaper and better alternatives to nicotine as insecticides. In their search, German scientists made two organic compounds containing phosphorus that were very effective at killing insect pests. However, they soon discovered that, even in minuscule amounts, the substances caused distressing symptoms in humans exposed to them. The two...
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a relatively short period of time, I can see the enormous transformations that have taken...
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...centre stage in all psychological understanding. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Psychology...The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of fundamental aspects of the theory and methodology underpinning phenomenological psychology...
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...children and how technologies are now implicated in complicated and contradictory ways, in every stage of the refugee journey. But it also shows the creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new...
Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...children and young people, many adults are already apprehensive about the amount of time kids spend online, with a lot of parents not wanting to encourage any further computer use. People can also be reluctant to try something that is perceived to be very new or untested. However, self-help utilizing modern technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the...
A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...children have a right to be protected from. In 1868, in rural Cheshire, John Bradley and his wife died within a few weeks of each other. They left a family of four young children under the age of eight. Several weeks later an aunt investigated, and found the children, still at home, in a filthy condition and half starved. They had survived only by eating raw vegetables...