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Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...physical threats, majority rule, or disregarding the claims of the other person. This form of conflict management usually results in hostility and resentment and is an extreme example of a win–lose strategy. Nevertheless, sometimes it is necessary – in matters of health and safety, for example, or at times of crisis. In contrast, accommodating satisfies the needs of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...physics. It is possible for children to use scientific words correctly in scientific conversations, but then find it difficult to express all the complex ideas behind the concept when asked to define or explain what they mean. Exploring their ideas through talking and observing can help to dispel some of their confusion or identify under-developed ideas. As you answer the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...physical appearance, social status and relationships, and, in Catherine's case, her likes and dislikes, her accomplishments and pastimes. You will probably have noticed that this extract comprises a single, extremely long paragraph and is mostly concerned with describing the young Catherine Morland. This amount of detail at the start of the novel suggests to us that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...physics. So I think that would help. I think also just being really open and transparent and saying, ‘Well look, we listened to this criticism. We have these Lukewarmer scientists coming to our conferences, taking part in the vigorous, robust debates that conferences that we have, publishing the literature, and we listen to these criticisms and we criticise their...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...physical setting, the region and above all the growing children working together to create a creative whole.’ You can read more of Gardner's views in The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves, Howard Gardner, 2000. Within creative communities, technologies are also usually integral to daily activity. Below is...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...physical ills associated with the cities of the late 19th century (Hannigan, 1995). This attitude continues and informs the outdoor movements and the environmentalism of today. Activity 13 You can learn more about John Muir and Yosemite on the Smithsonian website. As you read the article, note the kind of language that John Muir uses to describe the park...Sustainable...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 345–359. Johns, D. P. and Johns, J. S. (2000) ‘SURVEILLANCE, SUBJECTIVISM AND TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: An Analysis of the Discursive Practice of High-Performance Sport’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 219-234. Jones, R.L. (2009) ‘Coaching as caring (‘The smiling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs