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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...class. However, there will always be additional responses, including amusement, irritation, umbrage, and boredom. As researchers, we may be interested in affect as a concept but do we consider how it plays out in an interview situation? Analyses of interview data tend to treat talk as an original, individual, and personal output, discounting how much of it is borrowed and...
OpenLearn with Working Wales | OpenLearn gyda Cymru'n Gweithio
Education & Development

OpenLearn with Working Wales | OpenLearn gyda Cymru'n Gweithio

...class education, helping you to meet your professional and personal goals. With tuition fee loans, financial support, and pay as you go options available, studying with The Open University is a lot more affordable than you might think. Find out more Fel darparydd mwyaf astudiaeth ran amser prifysgol yng Nghymru, mae’r Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru yn cynnig dewis eang o...
Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...classed as threatened with extinction. Why does this matter? What do butterflies do and what can we do to help them? [A Peacock butterfly on a purple flower] Some butterflies often seen in gardens are still common, like this Peacock (Aglais io). The eyespots on its wings are to confuse and startle predators. Photo: Willow Neal Why do butterflies matter? Lots of...
12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...class with a Confucius quote built over the top of the image reading: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand"] "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." 4: [photo of a measuring ruler with a Confucius quote] "He who excels in study can follow an official career.” 5: [photo of books with a Confucius quote saying:...
Campaigning for refugee and migrant women
Society, Politics & Law

Campaigning for refugee and migrant women

...classes for women on the basis that: every woman deserves her liberty and a chance to rebuild her life Having experienced violence from partners or family, they are often isolated and disbelieved. In the interview below, Meena Patel describes the work of SBS; set up in 1979 during an anti-racist movement, after two South-Asian women died in Southall, West London from...
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...feedback from others...Week 4: Problem solving and decision making: 1.3 Making a change - Reflection often leads to the identifying a change needed in some aspect of what we have been reflecting on, whether it’s our work, our learning habits or our lifestyle. But making that change can then prove more problematic than we think. [Described image] Figure 1 Force-field...
What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...class and an under pressure middle class who have growing frustrations over the political and economic status quo. Their frustrations are directed at globalisation, elite politics, austerity, fears about threats to identities, and immigration. Britain’s vote for Brexit was itself seen as a pointer to the growing power of these frustrations. Would a Trump Presidency seek...
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...classes, Smith lectured on “moral philosophy”, which in eighteenth-century Scotland was a broad humanities subject including topics as varied as morals, politics, religion, economics, jurisprudence and history. He reworked some of these lectures into a successful book (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759), which turned him into a household name. This allowed him to...