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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...social care practitioners. The Weasleys’ home at The Burrow presents us with an image of an impoverished, chaotic but loving and inclusive family, a contrast to the perfectly tidy but completely loveless world of Privet Drive, home of the Dursleys.In the opening scene of the first book we see the orphaned Harry being delivered, as a baby, to the home of his adoptive...
15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, the Pop Artist prediction was prophetic! But how can you navigate the world of social media, filter bubbles and fake news? This animation series, Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely, explores. 4: In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned to beware the Ides (15th) of March On a related...
How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...social media app Snapchat in an innovative way to enable victims of sexual violence to tell their stories without revealing their identities. [Snapchat logo on a phone on a bed] Like in many other countries, violence against women is a serious problem in India. It has led authorities to enact numerous stringent laws against perpetrators. Despite this, not many victims...
Introducing Geography Matters
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Geography Matters

...Social Sciences...[Geography Matters, cartoon] Geography Matters is the name of a new initiative for everyone interested in knowing more about Geography, and how it is taught at the OU. What is Geography Matters It is a suite of short videos, posts and audios on topics that relate to The Open University's modules on geography, environmental studies and development –...
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...social and political attitudes and behaviours. A lack of trust predictably can lead to tribalism, conflict, and lack of cooperation with the social good. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/2021 has in this sense provided a glimpse of a future in which relationships are rapidly changing, in which taken for granted notions of working practices are overturned and relationships...
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...social media have brought new opportunities for young people to tell their own stories, creating and sharing their own material with the world...Traditional media - like TV and film - often profits from young people: adults write stories about them, often without their involvement. These are, quite often, sensationalised portraits of youth, which may focus on the risky or...
Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...social change in WalesDr Donna Smith and Dr Jenny Hewitt, The Open University ‘Changemakers’ is an ambitious Open Societal Challenges project at The Open University, aimed at improving the political understanding of young people aged 16-24 in the UK, through the development of resource(s) that help them to better understand how to be active citizens. More Initially...
‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...social media contact with other students but the difficulties they experienced in making contact, understanding the informal ‘rules’ of social media contact and the lack of visibility of other students from Asian backgrounds. Most found it difficult to identify specific challenges they face as South Asian students, but their narratives spoke powerfully of the...