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Mapping Psychology 1

We would like to dedicate this course to the memory of Brenda Smith, Psychology Staff Tutor and member of the course team, who died during the final year of the course’s production. She had been a Psychology Staff Tutor since 1995, first in Scotland and then most recently in Ireland, but her close association with the Open University stretches back much further than this. She was an Open University student herself and then later returned to teach and was a tutor who enthused and supported very many students throughout their social science studies. At her funeral one of these students spoke very movingly of her warmth and energy and of the fact that she had really ‘made a difference’ to their lives. She certainly also made a difference to our DSE212 course team, where her commitment to education for mature students was clear in everything that she said and did, and her immensely hard work influenced many of our plans for the teaching and learning strategy of the course and the content of the texts. She contributed enormously at both a professional and personal level, particularly to the early work of the course team, and we hope that her influence on the course will shine through, helping it in turn to ‘make a difference’ to the lives of all the students who will study it in the coming years.

Mapping Psychology 1
Edited by Dorothy Miell, Ann Phoenix and Kerry Thomas

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The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA First published 1999 First published as an e-book 2002 Copyright © 1999, 2002 The Open University All rights, including copyright, in the content of this e-book are owned or controlled for these purposes by The Open University. In accessing this e-book, you agree that you may only download the content for your own personal non-commercial use. You are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of this e-book for any other... [continues]

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