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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...writing skills and deal sympathetically with students’ personal challenges as well as teaching the content. In response, team members Hugh Beattie and Paul-François Tremlett have set up regular online meetings between the Associate Lecturers and Central Academic colleagues to share best practice and new developments in Religious Studies as a field of study. We had a...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...writing. No one knows precisely when she began her famous story, The Tale of Genji but, divided into fifty-four books or episodes, the novel is twice as long as War and Peace. The plots spans almost a hundred years and involves over four hundred characters. The hero, Hikaru Genji, seeks love and happiness, enjoys popularity at court and a series of amorous encounters. The...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...writing your dissertation and preparing your presentation, so it’s a good idea to think about how you will cope. Receiving feedback [Emotional responses to receiving feedback: crying, anger and happiness.]Figure 4 A range of emotions are felt on receiving feedbackShow descriptionFigure 4 is a cartoon of three people. The first, a child, is crying. The second, a woman,...
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Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...writings of John Woolman and his fellow Quakers that there was an organised and principled critique of slavery in Britain. The British anti-slavery abolitionist movement that is most heralded today, however, emerged in the 1780s, and was underscored with ideas of free trade and free labour. For the British anti-slavery abolitionists ‘coerced labour‘ (i.e. slavery) was...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...writing in the way that perhaps American writers have absorbed particularly boxing and baseball into their writing. And there is nothing equivalent I think elsewhere in Britain apart from some writing involving boxers from Scottish novelists like William McIlvanney. Hugh Mackay: How important is rugby for Welsh television? Gareth Williams: I think the relationship between...
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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...writes of the dominance of English in educational contexts as one that reinforces privilege for English-speaking communities in the global knowledge economy. This prevalence of English in OER limits access for non-English speakers, perpetuating both a language and digital divide. It can also be argued that such OER are based on Western pedagogical models, which may not...
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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...Write a short summary of the anecdote and analyse it using the same three questions that you applied to the Fraser Doherty story and compare the answers. An early entrepreneurial experience? I started my entrepreneurial journey very young, although some people start even younger than I did. In a lot of ways, starting at such a young age has an advantage: the naivety of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...writing, with a drawing of a daffodil beneath. Alongside this is the following text: 'On March 1 the Government is asking you to give the go-ahead to the Welsh Assembly and so bring more democracy to Wales. The Assembly plans have now been debated in Parliament since 1974. In July 1978 the WALES ACT setting up the Assembly became law and was approved by the Queen. All...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs