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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...economic data that are too expensive or unfeasible for an individual to collect. Other types of secondary data include organisational records and surveys (e.g. employee surveys), market research data, or transcripts of interviews or focus groups. Whether you are collecting data for your own project or compiling a portfolio of evidence, secondary data serves as a...
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...economic background. The values underpinning inclusive leadership also sit in contrast to the single, hero model of leadership. They are rooted in collaborative notions that seek to include those often left out of leadership-related activities. They seek to have greater influence than is associated with individual leaders, to produce deeper change and to avoid...
Ageism and age discrimination
Society, Politics & Law

Ageism and age discrimination

...economic consequences. In this course you’ll be learning what ageism is and why it matters, as well as what the law says on ageism and what you can do to identify and challenge ageism you may encounter across different parts of society. While ageism affects everyone, this course will focus on ageism experienced by older people. The World Health Organization (WHO) has...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...economic classes, ethnic groups or gender (Pullin, 1993; Cooper, 1998). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label students or deny them access to courses or careers in the future. Research shows that working-class children: … go into lower sets … … are set less challenging test items … … and therefore they have to answer...
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...Cremin, T., Harris, D. & Chamberlain, L. (2018) ‘Pedagogy for reading for pleasure in low socio-economic primary schools: beyond ‘pedagogy of poverty’?’ Literacy 52 (2):86-94. McGrane, J., Stiff, J., Baird, J., Lenkeit, J. & Hopfenbeck-Oxford, T. (2017) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England Department for Education....
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...economic pressures will be influencing the decision to work outside the home. However, in addition they suggest that there could be two plausible routes whereby difficult temperament could influence mothers’ decisions on whether to work outside the home. The first could be that mothers find the problems of rearing the child with difficult temperament too aversive and...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...economic, extractive, exploitative social relationship. Race, according to Avery Gordon (2008), is a haunting presence in our personal lives and social relations because its effects are everywhere felt but nowhere specified: the machinery moves while the engine ise declared dead. Black Caribbean pupils are more than three times more likely to be permanently excluded from...
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...economic justice’. Simon Nkoli26 November 1957 – 30 November 1998 I am black and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me into secondary or primary struggles … So when I fight for my freedom I must fight against both oppressions. All those who believe in a democratic South African must fight against all oppression, all intolerance, all injustice. [A...