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International Day of Peace
Miscellaneous

International Day of Peace

...It is not enough to teach children how to read, write and count. Education has to cultivate mutual respect for others and the world in which we live, and help people forge more just, inclusive and peaceful societies.Learn more about the processes of peace, the aftermath of conflict and more with the articles, interactive, free courses and videos below. More about peace...
My unique path to university: more real stories
Education & Development

My unique path to university: more real stories

...education. Hannah's story Hannah shares her experience as a young carer and the first member of his family to go to university [My Path to University: Hannah's story] Simon's story Simon shares his experience of joining university later in life and his hopes for a future career in television. [My Path to University: Simon's Story] [Wrexham University Logo] This resource...
Why worldviews?
History & The Arts

Why worldviews?

...educator or working in the public sector, chances are sooner or later you will come across ‘worldviews’. The term has increasing currency as a means of encompassing the range and complexity (and often very personal nature) of ways of thinking about and being in the world. One of the themes at the heart of The Open University’s Religion, Belief and Worldviews Hub is...
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...education and social care professionals involved in the lives of their autistic children. This included: struggles to secure a diagnosis challenges associated with accessing (specialised) education provision securing opportunities for socialisation and self-care (for both mother and child) managing the financial consequences of caregiving and planning for the practical...
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...educate, inform, and advise about sex. So – in true sex advice “top tips” form – here are the top five problematic messages that we’ve found are perpetuated by the majority of sex advice. 1. There’s a set script for ‘proper’ sex As sex therapist Clare Staunton puts it, the “kiss, kiss, boob, boob, penis in vagina” approach to sex is found everywhere....
Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...educated guesses about whether sex is pleasurable for other species. Sex would be a very strange thing to seek if it didn’t bring some form of pleasure. It increases risk of disease, it wastes energy, it can seriously increase the likelihood of something bigger coming along and eating you (seriously, check out leopard-slug reproduction). There’s no reason why an...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...education, working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...technology. It shows something of the parallel development of human communication and of science and its technological applications, set in the context of Earth history as a whole. The years before present (BP) shown in this table are, of course, approximate, in that they merely imply 'about that long ago'. As far as the older times are concerned, clearly no scientist...