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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...adult learning centre would. Your local team may recommend us to you but they cannot refer. We pride ourselves in treating everyone as students and you will have equality with all students at the college regardless of background.’ (Southern Health NHS) Select below to reveal the references for this article. References Anthony, W.A. (1993) ‘Recovery from mental...
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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...adult-directed or structured approaches, such as unschooling. In conversations, for example, some parents noted that professionals offered their uninvited preference for more traditional approaches. One parent suggested that publishing information on examples of a range of pedagogies on the local authority website could indicate the commitment of service to appreciating...
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Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...adults alike is the magical otherworld it opens up to us. The idea of casting a spell so that good may triumph over evil; using divination to glimpse into the future; or having the chance of one more conversation with a deceased loved one is all very appealing. Yet in our modern and rational world there’s little room for mysticism, wonder and alternative worldviews....
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Download our Chinese characters learning apps
Languages

Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...And you can also add Chinese Handwriting onto most smartphones' keyboard in order to use your touch screen to create typed characters. The link between innovation & teaching and research You can read a research article by Kan Qian and two other authors on Chinese character learning strategies amongst adult distance learners using mobile devices. Try a free Chinese course...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety

...adult. This can create problems for the next generation and becomes self-perpetuating. [Safer parks illustration showing a park with a welcome sign]Credit: NCYA Harper Perry Some of the reasons for lack of engagement may also be due to feeling unsafe or unwelcome. If natural spaces are more likely to be accessed by people of a white background, then people from an ethnic...
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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...adults and policymakers that I hear have heard quite a lot of people say, well, get them off Facebook or get them away from whatever social media or devices they're on. I don't think that's realistic. This is the world that we're living in. So it's really about understanding how do young people engage with those media and what kind of an effect might that be having on...
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Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...cares. Europe’s migration crisis simply isn’t about in-work benefits for EU migrants. Everyone understands that the issue of benefits is symbolic. It is about an idea of fairness based on a mixture of a contributory model of the welfare state and welfare chauvinism. EU migrants do not claim more in-work benefits than the British, and since they also pay taxes it is...
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Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...to us that distance education already presumes an active form of learning. We can capitalise on this by extending what is already a “flipped” approach to give even more responsibility to those students capable of taking charge of their own and their peer’s learning while never neglecting those who benefit from careful materials preparation and selective scaffolding....
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