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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...social action. Their team’s work with schools has myriad connections to CPRT’s aims for primary education. As Robin Alexander’s recent CPRT submission to the House of Commons Education Committee reminded us, these aims focus on the individual – their wellbeing, engagement and autonomy, and on the relationship between self, others and the wider world – in...
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Article 10 mins
Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age
Education & Development

Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age

...working conditions that promote stress and job insecurity and don’t support home food preparation; food production, processing, pricing and subsidy systems; and urban planning and deprivation that doesn’t support physical activity or healthy food supply. In addition to all these – and interacting with them – is the promotion (marketing and advertising) of...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...Working Towards Inclusive Education: Social Contexts, London: David Fulton. The Open University (OU) (2003) ‘Thinking it through’, E243 Inclusive education: learning from each other, Book 2, Milton Keynes: The Open University. Prince, D., Rocha, A. and Nurius, P. (2018) ‘Multiple Disadvantage and Discrimination: Implications for adolescent health and education’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...social support, sleep, diet and exercise and how these can protect our wellbeing. Finally, we will explore the treatment options that are available to us if we become unwell, learning more about the different types of therapy that are available. [Graphic of training shoes surrounded by sports equipment, an iPhone monitoring heartbeat and an apple on a green background. ]...
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What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...Working for Health. Modern western scientific medicine is often called "biomedical" because it explains health in terms of biology. It attaches importance to learning about body structure (anatomy) and systems (physiology), in particular to understanding mechanisms like the heart, arteries, nerves, brain and so on. Health is seen as a state where all the parts of the body...
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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...Social Science at the Open University. The work was funded by the Higher Education Academy and the content is released under the Creative Commons Licence. This OpenLearn course was updated with the help of Gini Harrison in July 2019. Course image: Thomas Galvez in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence . Except for third party...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...work...On October 26 2014, 3.2 million Tunisians headed to the polls to choose a new parliament under the new constitution adopted in January 2014. 69% of eligible voters turned out for what was the second democratic election since the ousting of president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, defying the expectations raised by western skeptic polls that predicted a low...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...Social Care courses. This article is reproduced with kind permission of Marie Curie. Shortly after Queen Elizabeth II died in early September, renowned palliative care consultant, Dr Kathryn Mannix outlined on Twitter how the Queen’s death might be an example of ‘ordinary dying’. Others both on social media and in the BMJ opinions section agreed: the Queen’s death...
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