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Working with children and families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working with children and families

...family life and caring for children. It draws on interviews with a wide-ranging selection of professionals, from people who deal directly with children at nurseries or schools to those that help shape national policy, to throw light on national initiatives and schemes such as ChildLine, and explore family life from different perspectives and social levels. This material...
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Audio 2 hrs 46 mins
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...families support healthy living and cope with illness? This free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people with Alzheimer's disease is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Theories and concepts in family meanings
Society, Politics & Law

Theories and concepts in family meanings

...life is constantly being scrutinised, but debates seem to sidestep the question of what ‘family’ really means. The Open University's Megan Doolittle joins four leading academics from the field of sociology to tackle the issues head on. They look at how families communicate and behave, and they talk about family personal life and what is meant by the term 'intimacy'....
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Audio 30 mins
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...family at the centre of early learning, focuses on the positive learning relationships that can exist in any family and how ordinary, everyday domestic activities can sustain learning. You will consider how the traditions and cultural practices of the community to which the family belongs filters through to the child’s experiences. In doing so you will think about why...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Family photos and what they mean
Society, Politics & Law

Family photos and what they mean

What can family photos tell us about households, gender roles and emerging technology? Professor Gillian Rose explores her research on family photography, and how this work interacts with her own experiences...Transcript
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Video 5 mins
Genealogy: Your Family Tree
History & The Arts

Genealogy: Your Family Tree

...family tree? Here's some advice to get you started...[Newspaper article] So you've finally decided to track down that long lost relative. Or maybe you want to know who your ancestors were. Genealogy is one of the most popular pastimes on the Internet. But first you have to do some basic detective work. Talk to people. Your family, friends and neighbours may know the names...
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Article 5 mins
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psycho-social factors we investigate here...This free course, Physical activity: a family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and ......
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs