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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...Families of white children should aim to diversify friendship groups of both adults and children to experience the cultures and perspectives of different racial groups, emphasising the value of this. However, it is important for white people to not place these new friends in the role of educator on racial and ethnic issues. Children should be introduced to diverse...
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Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...families can trust them with their health and wellbeing (Peate, 2017). However, the Mazars report into Connor’s death highlighted significant failures of leadership and management at the Trust, together with ‘missed opportunities for learning’ (Mazars, 2015, p. 17). The authors concluded that failings in leadership at Slade House were multifaceted, and that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...family origin or lineage, for example in describing a royal ‘race’. Even in this usage, it was a socially constructed term designed to reinforce hierarchies of power: it referred loosely to what we might now consider genetic or geographical heritage, but without any scientific or biological basis. However, by the seventeenth century, the word ‘race’ started to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...families are having to care for both their children and their parents at a time when their free time is limited (ONS, 2019). That’s why the Open University, in collaboration with Legal & General, has created your Midlife MOT to help you. We have a wealth check-up. It’ll help you take a look at your finances, see what’s working perfectly and what needs attention....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...families. It is the right of first occupiers, who came first to an area, who cut the trees; they were owners of the land. And these people could lend, rent or give it to other families who came. With colonisation came the introduction of French law with private property. This means that at independence, we had the two coexisting systems, the traditional common land and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...family over breakfast. It’s there as you check or reply to texts, tweets and emails on your phone (if you have a clever one) or your computer. And it carries on throughout the day, whether at work, while you study, or are at play. Language is such an important part of everyday life that it’s easy to take it for granted. In this course you will have a chance to stand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...tree-lined, mostly residential streets to the next area. On the way, a couple of dogs seem to recognise the vehicle, either by sight or by smell. They bark and take chase. Each time the team catches a dog in one of its giant butterfly nets, the mutt twists and turns and howls, trying to escape. This ritual repeats several times through the day across 50 square kilometres...
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Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...trees. Their position, number and different sizing may well suggest a ‘forest’ to you, even though the illustration is actually just an arrangement of two-dimensional geometric shapes. The location of the red triangle amongst ‘trees’ strengthens the link with the fairy tale, if we know the story about Red Riding Hood walking to her grandmother’s house through...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs