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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...educating the public about environmental issues. While Iceland certainly has other practices that are environmentally unsound (for example selling meat products and using refrigeration requiring energy that produces carbon dioxide), their advert ought to be commended for drawing attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding. By squashing the Iceland advert, Clearcast is...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...education is one of the primary ways. And I don’t just mean science and technology education. People who don’t want a science career shouldn’t be excluded from accessing the wonders of space. Everyone can contribute to exploration. What will a space artist create? How will space actors act or space dancers dance? We also need to consider how we experience space in...
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Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...educational intervention co-produced with and for the public, was founded on the principles of the innovative model ‘Five Pillars for Ageing Well’ (5P). AWPTS is the result of a public education portfolio, developed over 18 years, and the principles of 5P consolidated in a co-produced intervention for disease prevention. AWPTS is a highly adaptable tool for also...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...education, identity, family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority....
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children’, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 55, pp. 3–9. Mukhopadhyay, T. R. (2000) Beyond the Silence: My Life, the World and Autism, London, National Autistic Society. Rimland, B. (1964) Infantile Autism: the Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behaviour, Edelson, S....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...education also enabled women to qualify and practise medicine for the first time. Finally, using many Scottish examples, the last section of this course presents information about how healthcare institutions, namely asylums, were again influenced by social, economic, political and cultural contexts. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...Education...Early years team work and leadership: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the concept of leadership in the early years demonstrate an awareness of factors that influence leadership and teamwork understand how teamwork can support leadership skills reflect on personal leadership and teamwork skills...Early years...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs