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Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women
Society, Politics & Law

Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women

...educator, and former Director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland conducted the conversations. They included women in marginalized groups that are often characterised as ‘hard-to-reach’ including women in the Traveller community, the LGBTQI constituency, women in rural areas, and ‘new’ citizens (See Ashe, 2022). The launch of Fidelma’s report in Dublin...
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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...Education Secretary has tabled legislation to prevent ‘unacceptable silencing and censoring’ on campuses. To understand why free speech matters, as well as how we might deal with the difficulties it faces today, we need to understand how the idea came about. What is free speech? Free speech refers to the right to express opinions without censorship or restraint. It is...
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Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment

...education to take nutrition seriously argues Dr Joyce Cavaye, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University...A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...educated women were rare) and finally, political atmosphere (when authoritarian leadership was the norm). Despite this, she succeeded in her academic pursuits, following up opportunities to study in the West, secure a prestigious job in Kenya and still put local population needs at the heart of her work at grassroots. Her non-conformity meant she paid dearly and...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...educate kids about the world and different cultures,” as the campaign website states. “Education” supposedly also was the aim of the exotic people displays from an earlier period. As I showed above, this was an “education” not in facts, knowledge, understanding and empathy but an “education” into a particular way of viewing the world: one where the foreign...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (Vol. 7). Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River: NJ. Robson. C. (2011) Real world research. Wiley: Cornwall. Further reading: Farrow, R., Iniesto, F., Weller, M. & Pitt., R. (2020) The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook. Open Education Research Hub: The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0....
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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time and particularly in Wales. It explores the skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork...Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...Technological Piste' is perhaps too bizarre a title for a course, so welcome instead to T207_1 The engineer as a problem-solver: the nature of problems. T207_1 is taken from an Open University course entitled 'The Engineer as Problem Solver'. The fact that we have prepared a course with this title shows that we think there is something useful to say about the process of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs