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Managing for Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Managing for Sustainability

...systems. This material is taken from Open University course T867: Managing for sustainability... Source planning in waste Chris Murphy gives a brief overview of the waste industry from his experience. Source planning in occupational safety Joe Taylor explains the significance of planning from a Health and safety perspective. What is an environmental audit? Why is an...
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Video 23 mins
Othello and apartheid
History & The Arts

Othello and apartheid

...system of enforced legal racial segregation in South Africa that was imposed on the country's majority non white inhabitants by the minority white population. In 1988 actress and director Janet Suzman took the decision to defy the racist apartheid regime by staging Othello in Johannesburg with a mixed cast of both white and black actors. In these three films we explore...
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Video 12 mins
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...system or the immune system. * Cognitive processes These involve the higher mental processes such as thinking, planning and decision making. * Conditioning A form of learning by association. Behaviours that are to be desirable are rewarded and those that are not desirable are punished. * Criminal behaviour An act that breaks the law and can receive punishment or a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...think about the factors within each system. [This is a diagram with a set of circles inside one another. In the smallest, inner circle are the words ‘Child Microsystem’. In the next circle are the words ‘Family Mesosystem’. In the next circle are the words ‘Wider community Exosystem’ and in the largest, outer circle are the words ‘Society Macrosystem’.]...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...think of some possible strategies for dealing with these...Facilitating group discussions: 1 What is facilitation? - Before considering the skills of facilitating group processes, it is important that you have a good understanding of what facilitation means. So let’s start by defining what is meant by ‘facilitation’. Activity 1 Part One Write down your understanding...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...thinking about gender as something that’s flexible. So, how do children come to understand gender? When do they begin to think about gender as a stable trait? [Pink bikes for the girls, blue bikes for the boys: Gendered toys in a shop] Choose a toy, little girl or boy What is gender? We often tend to think about gender as the biological differences between men and...
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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material useful. Of course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this material. There’s another category we didn’t...
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Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...think of an example of a right for each of the three categories below: a freedom to do or be protected from something; a claim to do or enjoy something; a power to do something which affects others and not to be challenged over that use of power. Table 1 European Convention articles and corresponding rights ARTICLE OF ECHR RIGHT 2 Right to life 3 Right to be free from...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs