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Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...students with religions studies specialists. The workshops embedded the principle of co-design to support the development of these OpenLearn assets, the first of which explains what religious literacy is, while the second explores what it might look like in a science teaching setting. Religious literacy film Transcript Religious literacy is not the same as the knowledge...
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Video 10 mins
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...OU PhD student, Michelle Oldale, tells us what the research shows...As a psychotherapist who is also a fat woman it did not previously occur to me how my size and that of my clients impacted on the work we did together. Size is hardly ever considered as an aspect of diversity, except in the size acceptance and fat activist communities. My perspective changed when I read...
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Article 10 mins
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...students while physical attendance at lectures, seminars, etc. were not permitted. Many higher education institutions (HEIs) took the opportunity to reflect on how these emergency practices and policies could or should evolve into a planned and proactive approach to working in a hybrid environment. This process of reflection included a greater focus on the wellbeing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...students to know that the Dutch painter Rembrandt collected Mughal miniature paintings. Silks from the Safavid empire (the Iranian dynasty from the 16th to 18th century) were so popular that Polish kings had their coat of arms woven in Isfahan. This exchange of art continued into the Age of Enlightenment, a time when ideas around politics, philosophy, science and...
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Article 5 mins
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...become worried about becoming infected or spreading the virus themselves (Ghosh et al, 2020). The possibility that family members and friends could die are significant stressors affecting young people during COVID-19, especially if they belong to a ‘high risk’ group. Death anxiety occurs where children fear that a parent may contract the virus and ultimately die...
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Article 20 mins
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...become “unstable” goes back four decades. In the 1970s two US material scientists who had become interested in glacial ice, Terry Hughes and Hans Weertman, and US-based British glaciologist John Mercer were among those to propose that the parts of the ice sheet resting on bedrock below sea level might be vulnerable to a mechanism of self-sustaining ice loss they...
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Video 10 mins
Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...becomes a tax on gender. It is a form of discrimination based on a natural biological process authorised by a primarily male government from 40 years ago. Men just voted to keep a tax on women. Yet another reason why we need a more gender-balanced parliament. #tampontax — Rainbow Murray (@RainbowMurray) October 26, 2015 Campaigners highlight that exotic meats (such as...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...becoming a mother; I also wrote about mothering, lone mothering, ‘new’ families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when...
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Article 5 mins