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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex workers have sought to emphasise that no matter what you think of their job, that it is work like any other form of selling labour, and that they therefore deserve the same rights as any other worker. However, not surprisingly there are a range of competing...
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Article 10 mins
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...mental and the physical – and interceding between one soul and another. For Aristotle, the imagination – or phantasia – was a kind of bridge between sensation and thought, supplying the images or ‘phantasms’ without which thought could not occur. Descartes argued that the imagination was not an essential part of the mind, since it dealt with images in the brain...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...Mental health and autism [Online]. Available at http://www.autism.org.uk/about/health/mental-health.aspx (Accessed 8 February 2018). Paradiž, V. (2002) Elijah’s Cup, New York, The Free Press. Roth, I. (2007) ‘Autism and the imaginative mind’ in Roth, I. (ed.) Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Roth, I., with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...wellbeing; they represent the basis of sound relationships and a trusting classroom ethos and can be fostered through talk and interaction about texts, potentially leading to social action. Their team’s work with schools has myriad connections to CPRT’s aims for primary education. As Robin Alexander’s recent CPRT submission to the House of Commons Education...
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Article 10 mins
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...mental wellbeing in some distressing times in history...What happens to you when you read?: 1 Stories: what do you remember? - Human beings are avid consumers of stories, whether they are in the form of large formal stories such as novels, or plays, or in the form of much smaller and more diffuse stories, such as soap operas or gossip. Stories also appear to be important,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A discussion on melanoma (skin cancer) as a teenager
Health, Sports & Psychology

A discussion on melanoma (skin cancer) as a teenager

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Jack Brodie, a former young person with cancer, recounts his experience with Dr Wendy McInally who has spent over 25 years in clinical and educational delivery environments across the United Kingdom and internationally. Wendy has built a comprehensive research and education portfolio around children and young people with...
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Surrogacy around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Surrogacy around the world

...country allows surrogates to legally accept payment for surrogacy from foreigners? Which European country only permits those in a heterosexual partnership or a single female to be intended parents? Professor Lesley Hoggart and Dr Sarah Earle, reveal some of the different rules in place for surrogacy around the world..._Find out more about The Open University's Health and...
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Activity 5 mins
Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In this interactive, you will explore two people’s experiences of visiting a hospital in these circumstances. You will find out how the hospital environment could be adjusted to improve the experience. In the interactive there are two animations, both of which are accompanied by transcripts. [A scene from an animation...
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Activity 15 mins