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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...caring for children was women’s ‘natural’ function: that women were ‘naturally’ better at caring roles than men. These common-sense assumptions had a definite influence on practice. Activity 4 Gender in theory and practice Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Think again about your own practice context. How have ways of working with children and young people,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...adult and child. [Described image] Figure 2 Eric Berne Parent state, as the name suggests, is associated with the typical behaviour of a parent towards their children. This could be authoritarian, prescribing or admonishing as in ‘Don't do that’, ‘Do it this way’ or ‘That's wrong’ – which might be described as a critical parent state. Alternatively, it could...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Care About Mindfulness, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We...
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Article 5 mins
It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting
Money & Business

It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting

...care about the cost. The 2600 consumers who used the electric light were less than 1 and one quarter per cent of the company's customers. The company's increase in meters for the September quarter of 1891 over that of 1890 was 3490, so that they had more new consumers in one quarter than there were electric light consumers in the whole of their district. There was plenty...
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Article 5 mins
Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...care, where the findings of some research studies may directly facilitate a behaviour change that might be beneficial to the individual and the public. For example, very early in the course of the pandemic we recognised that the risk of dying because of COVID-19 is twice as high for obese people than people with healthy BMI. The question we should be asking is: whose job...
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Article 10 mins
Open Pathways
Education & Development

Open Pathways

...care Leadership Achievement Award Open Learning Champions There is also anOpen Learning Champions guide which offers information and suggestions for facilitators using Open Pathways and other OpenLearn resources with learners. Open Learning Champions can come from community and voluntary organisations, colleges, libraries and others. What they have in common is an...
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Activity 1 hr
Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?
Society, Politics & Law

Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?

...care what the speed limit is. How is reducing a 40 to a 30 or a 30 to a 20 going to affect the behaviour of someone who thinks that driving at over 100 mph on a road that passes within feet of someone's front door is OK? We now have the technologies available to either limit the speed of the vehicle to the speed limit in operation, or send the incriminating information to...
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Article 5 mins
Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...care for our environment as well as more appropriate forms of accountability. We demonstrate the necessity of addressing issues of entitlements, rights, obligations and duties if we are to critically and carefully shape our values in doing environmental responsibility and being environmentally responsible. This material is taken from the course: TD866 Environmental...
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Audio 1 hr 42 mins