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Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...social and economic injustice green life skills that crosscut both of the above. There are advantages to this wider view of green skills. It moves thinking away from a focus on economic growth and capitalism and acknowledges the contribution those involved in care work and education can bring to addressing the climate emergency. Even experiencing formal education at all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...Social Attitudes Survey shows the true extent of concerns about immigration. Clear majorities thought migrants were having a net negative effect on British schools and the NHS. This was an area where there was substantial agreement between people with different levels of education. Another area in which the public was even more of one mind was in their awareness that the...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...social distancing, are to do with this basic conflict, and how people feel society should be structured in relation to it. The pandemic can be seen as a small-scale version of what’s involved in the climate crisis. For humankind to combat environmental breakdown it needs to take decisive remedial action and, to some extent, change its way of life. But this raises the...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...social/political dimensions. The challenge for public health systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change...
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How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...social psychologists have, for almost 30 years now, examined the social and psychological effects of being confronted with our own mortality. In well over 200 experiments, individuals have been instructed to imagine themselves dying. The first study of this kind was conducted on US municipal court judges, who were asked to set bond for an alleged prostitute in a...
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Do whales commit suicide?
Nature & Environment

Do whales commit suicide?

...social groups. As in human communities, if an individual is affected by any of the factors above, then others travelling with it will also be exposed to the same problems. An ocean mystery But illness, injury and error aren’t always behind these events. Far more intriguing, it is not uncommon for some strandings to involve healthy animals, seemingly unaffected by any of...
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Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment

...Social Care at The Open University...A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing discipline that focuses on the use of food and supplements to provide these essential nutrients as part of an integrated...
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...Social Care courses and qualifications. Politics, it has been said, is the art of the possible. One aspect of possibility when it comes to politics that is starting to receive the attention it deserves is the potential for political events, processes, or ideologies to give rise to grief, and grief of major proportions. This is what is increasingly being referred to as...
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