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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...study explores the perspectives of Black mothers of autistic children to gain an insight into how race, gender and disability affect their experiences of advocating for their children. This research highlights a group whose experiences intersect multiple marginalised social categories and who are historically underrepresented in academia. Black feminist theory emphasises...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...studies and White supremacy, see Nayak, 2007 and Applebaum, 2016; for discussion about how this intersects with post-colonial theory, see Williams and Chrisman, 1994; Gandhi, 1998; Loomba, 2005 and for decolonial theory, see Mignolo, 2000; Quijano, 2007; Bhambra, 2014). Moreover, the salient argument is that institutional racism is ‘deeply embedded in established...
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...studied a lot of behavioural change and I’ve studied a lot, I spent 12 years at the BBC working with digital content, trying to motivate people to care and to take action. And it’s difficult, it’s incredibly difficult. And I’ve got some tried and tested ways that you can achieve change and you can motivate people to act, but it’s a difficult ask. So I think...
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...study in Mathematics...Egyptian mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of how hieroglyphs were used to represent numbers and the nature of the problems that have survived understand that Egyptian calculation was fundamentally additive. Operations such as doubling and halving being used for multiplication...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. The badge for this course Looking globally: The future of education can be used as part of the first assessment of the Open University Masters module EE830 Educating the next generation within two years of gaining the badge. The Masters...
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the principles, purposes and responsibilities affecting those working with children and young people critically engage with some of the social issues that affect children and young people’s wellbeing interpret and evaluate information and literature relevant to children and young people find and use...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...study in the Arts. You might be interested in a more recent Open University course, A111 Discovering the arts and humanities...Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read closely – analyse a passage from the play examine genre – what kind of play is Doctor Faustus? consider themes – what are the...
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...studying at university. You can explore the topics to continue to develop your knowledge and skills. Writing Analysis in Social Care is an interactive learning resource which is freely available for any workers in the social work and social care field and relevant to all UK nations. A summary of research into social workers’ writing is the focus of Rai, L., Ferguson, G....