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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...Social Psychology Dr Stephanie Taylor...[A group of women sitting around a table in an informal work meeting ] Research participants used to be referred to as ‘subjects’, especially in my home discipline, psychology. ‘Participant’, the term now generally used, emphasises the rights of the person recruited, and their centrality to the research process. It signals...
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Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students
Education & Development

Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students

...interact in various ways. The use of technology as an intermediary for knowledge transmission – where the technology adds and facilitates knowledge beyond what is initially seen by the learner. Creative approaches for teaching and learning – new, engaging ways to deliver content and to facilitate deeper learning opportunities from. Contextualising learning –...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...social services' intervention and the prosecution of both parents and factory owner. American colonial families: Industrious girls treated with respect The differences between the expectations placed on children today and those placed on them in the past are neatly summed up by two American writers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. Comparing childhoods in America...
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Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...social systems around them, such as family and work, which might be where the client's emotional problems come from... The Therapy Relationship What’s more important, finding the right therapy or finding the right therapist? There are a wide range of therapeutic approaches out there in the health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out...
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Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

...interact with other objects thanks to their strong gravity. Hundreds of small black holes have been detected by the way they interact with other stars. There are two different approaches to such detection. In “X-ray binary stars” – in which a star and a black hole orbit a shared centre while producing X-rays – a black hole’s gravitational field can pull material...
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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...interact with each other. This reflects the scope of different social sciences. Some, like psychology tend to be more focused on the individual, while other social sciences like sociology or economics tend to focus on relationships between groups of people. This is not a hard and fast distinction, for example there is a branch of psychology called social psychology. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Markets in crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Markets in crisis

...social, economic and political systems we have in place today. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Markets in Crisis A short introduction to this album Human motivation during a global crisis Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen expresses that now more than ever it's time to re-think the social, economic...
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Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...social enterprises being acquired by large corporations? Richard Blundel discusses the case for independence. ...In an episode of The Bottom Line broadcast on 27 October 2016, Evan Davis examined the pros and cons of 'Selling Your Corporate Baby' with Liz Earle, co-founder of Liz Earle Naturally Active Skincare, William Kendall, chairman of the soft drinks company,...
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