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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...centre of all that you do. And it's very important for children to be involved in making their own decisions and taking control of their own destiny. If you don't do that, we now know from engaging directly with young people and from our evaluation of all the work that we do, that you don't end up with the same outcomes, and there's a greater lack of educational...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A reader's guide to Midnight's Children
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Midnight's Children

...Children...[Salman Rushdie] The expression ‘magical realism’ was first coined by a German critic called Franz Roh, in the 1920s. He was describing art which was realist but which, at the same time, had a strange, supernatural quality, and the term was applied to the work of a school of artists. Later, in Latin America, ‘magic realism’ became associated with a...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...research focuses on children and young people who, following migration, act as translators and interpreters for family and friends who don’t speak the local language. Termed ‘child language brokers,’ their rapid language learning at school means they often linguistically mediate on behalf of family very soon after arrival — they also find themselves acting as...
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What is it like to research death and loss?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like to research death and loss?

...researching death-related topics, and the Centre for Open Thanatology, an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts. The Centre’s vision is to use research and education to foster open dialogue and critical engagement with death and loss. ......
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Charting new reading research directions
Education & Development

Charting new reading research directions

...researcher exploring the hidden senses involved in children’s reading, Natalia Kucirkova, is reconceptualising reading as a full-body experience. This interview explains more...Natalia Kucirkova is a literacy researcher at the University of Stavanger and at The Open University. Natalia studies social justice in early childhood literacy, focusing on the role of...
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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...research is seen as an effective form of CPD. This free course, An introduction to classroom research, provides a basic introduction to research design and illustrates two methodologies, case study and action research, by drawing on examples from the classroom. The activities in the course provide an opportunity for you to design and develop your own project...This is the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...centred on ideas of power/knowledge, but it is not clear what the purpose of the research question is. Although undertaking a research project on human security and biopolitics would be feasible given the large bodies of scholarly research on the subject, the current research question is too vague. Stating the actors and political event to be studied and providing a...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

The value and progress of jury research in Scotland

...Research project...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. [A group of people engaged in a debate.] When the Scottish Government announced in 2015 that it had accepted a recommendation to commission research into the Scottish jury, an observer might have wondered why this was even necessary. In 2012, Dennis J Devine estimated that there had been 1500 jury...
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