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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...writing in a notebook or on your computer or tablet. At the end of Session 4 you will find a quiz that will challenge you to answer questions on the materials you have been studying. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...write down some of your own thoughts about visualisation and what it means...Using visualisation in maths teaching: 3. What does visualisation mean? - ‘Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to “see” something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. An image may be of some geometrical shape, or of a graph or diagram, or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...writes, ‘no one would be in the grip of superstition’. [Excommunicated Spinoza, 1907 painting by Samuel Hirszenberg] Excommunicated Spinoza, 1907 painting by Samuel Hirszenberg. But rarely if ever is that the case. Instead, we inevitably encounter adversity and disappointment in pursuing what we want. Then we ‘vacillate wretchedly between hope and fear’, making us...
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Article 10 mins
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...writes about sex, gender and relationships, what with the coinciding of LGBT history month and Valentine’s Day. This year, however, I thought I could rest up a bit on February 14, given that I said everything I wanted to say about the celebration of romantic love last Valentine. I was wrong. Facebook chose February 14 2014 to do one of the most exciting things that has...
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Article 5 mins
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...writing in Subjectivity2009, 25, pages 432-445 The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change Angela McRobbie, published by Sage I discuss this book in a review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity and the neo-liberal subject Valerie Walkerdine writing in Gender and Education 2003 15, pages 237-248 Why more and more...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...writing for the BBC in this period, I used this sentence to contextualise these developments: Republicans will view this as "military Brits out" - that is its real significance. And I added these thoughts: The past few days have given us the stuff of history - words and actions that point towards a better peace than the one we have had so far. But there is another...
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Article 5 mins
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...Write down how you would use brackets to do the following calculations, then carry out the calculation using the Windows calculator. (Remember to clear the previous calculation before entering a new one.) Add together 6 and 8 and multiply the result by 9. Add 8 to 56 then divide the result by 8. Subtract 81 from 129 and multiply the result by 16. Add together 8 and 15 and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...Write a summary of how your dinner plate is different in its content from other dinner plates around the world and comment on the usefulness of NHS recommendations in those parts of the world. (Answer in fewer than 200 words.) Discussion The National Geographic feature displays a wide diversity of dinner plates, each very different in their composition. These diets are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs