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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: delineate different understandings of equality in education give some examples of inequalities in different cultures and jurisdictions...Exploring equality and equity in education: 1 Equality and you - Across jurisdictions and cultures, there are different policies and practices which result in some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...Learning from the past The Conservatives have learned from Labour’s failure in the 1960s to completely eradicate grammar schools. The process of ending selection was resisted by some, most notably Kent, and the law never changed to ban or force grammar schools to close – it just prevented the opening of new ones. They also learned from their own failure in the 1980s...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most of my research time in the last two decades. My current interest is to investigate the ways in which artistic engagements in contemporary...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...learning about the environmental movement in the US inspired by Rachel Carlson’s work on ‘Silent Spring’ further raised my awareness of the ecological crisis and climate issues in our world. But as a teenager, I had no idea how to respond or what to do at first but then became more engaged at University. [A group of people gather in a religious circle] During my...
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Article 10 mins
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...learning and development, to basic human rights and democracy. Yet our research shows that this all too often this glosses over complex experiences. Adults know best Kellett (2009, 2014) describes how children and young people have traditionally been denied the right to participation, and how this perspective has more recently been challenged by researchers, practitioners...
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Article 5 mins
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...learning new things”, says Yasmin who’s just completed her first year of a Sports, Fitness and Coaching degree with the OU. Having left school after her GCSEs, she began a career working in design. Always a keen sportswoman, she came to disability sport at the age of 18 and is an active wheelchair rugby player and a wheelchair basketball player and coach. The success...
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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...learned new skills that are relevant to my PhD and I came back to it with a new energy and a fresher mind. I learned about meeting tough deadlines, untangling a complex topic and writing to a prescribed style and format. I also worked for a day at the Nuffield Foundation, including giving what they call a ‘lunch and learn’ talk about the work I’d done at POST, which...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...learning they pick up a translation of their favourite book. Being familiar with the characters and plot of the book means that even if they don’t understand many words in the book, they don’t have to struggle with the vocabulary or the plot, as they know what’s happening. It can also be fun to discover what has been changed in the translation. The Harry Potter...
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Article 15 mins