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A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2014. Available at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey-survey-of-mental-health-and-wellbeing-england-2014 (accessed 18/02/23) The Mental Health Foundation (2022) What it’s like to have...
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Article 5 mins
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...adults will be overweight, over 1 billion affected by obesity, and 177 million adults severely affected by obesity by 2025. This conflicting information is staggering and demonstrates that weight loss products are not addressing the obesity epidemic that is being faced on a global level. Obesity is also an increasingly common problem in Northern Ireland. The latest data...
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Article 5 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book talk in the school library,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...adults have an adult perspective, so it is important that children and young people are supported to make their own opinions and viewpoints heard. Wanting to learn what social research is all about: Most children and young people have experience of project work at school (i.e. they find out about things that are already known) but few of them will have had an opportunity...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...adults and children, and what they can learn...In this free course, Understanding children: babies being heard, you will find out some of the things that very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what they need from other adults and children, and what they can...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...How did the revolution inspire and inform de Sade's writing, if at all? The historical aspect and de Sade's personal experiences are analysed and explained. Horror and imprisonment Imprisoned for much of his adult life, de Sade's writings are rife with institutional motifs. This discussion highlights and explains principal autobiographical and fictional examples....
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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...adults of either sex. It is not necessarily the case that such men were sexually interested in their child friends; arguably they liked their company because girlhood was entirely free from the demands associated with being a man in a patriarchal culture. From this perspective, the puzzles, nonsense and fantasy that make up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland books can be...
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Article 10 mins
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...adults develop narratives to better understand key points of their learning lives. You will plan and carry out a brief, informal interview with a colleague, and your colleague will interview you, on themes of learning and work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs