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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...physical feelings of a wartime child. This richness and immediacy of experience can be applied across the curriculum and with pupils at any age. The resources for activities like the one described above, together with many more ideas and educational programmes, are located in museums. Museums are the nation's treasure houses. They're packed with objects, stories, ideas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...physics. They suggested that the natural world could be explored and understood, and that nature and everything in it was governed by underlying ‘laws’; that there were rational, universally valid answers to the questions asked by an enquiring mind; that for every effect there was an identifiable cause, for every natural phenomenon an explanation, a category and a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...physical, represented by partitions or walls or fences, to show who is allowed in and who is not (and under what terms). [A photograph of two pairs of shoes either side of a painted line.] Figure 1 The sorts of boundaries we consider here are more social than physical. They also define ‘who’s in and who’s out’. In many ways, social boundaries are the most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and re-visited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes in the course. In order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...physical things or with dementias, and yeah, there has to be some boundaries. So you know, I also get a satisfaction from being able to do that. And people die. So I'm not I can't be immune to feelings of sadness when we lose people and how that affects me and also other residents. We want to be able to express that we miss someone. And also, we share that with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...physical and financial resources: prioritising and problem solving and monitoring performance...This free course, Understanding management: I'm managing thank you! provides you with a set of ideas for developing your approach to managing your own work what we might call self-management. In order to do this, we will examine some of the key processes of management decision...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...physical, mental, and sexual abuse. Many died, and those who survived continue to carry generational traumas. Residential schools actively operated until the 1970s, with the last ones closing in the United States in 1978 and in Canada as late as 1997...Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance: 2.1 ‘Save the man; kill the Indian’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...physical dirt can quickly take on all sorts of moral connotations. With me to discuss such matters I have historian Amanda Vickery, who's from Queen Mary, London University; anthropologist Adam Kuper from the London School of Economics and author and cartoonist from The Guardian, Martin Rowson. Amanda, I don't know whether you noticed but when I just sort of mentioned...
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Article 30 mins