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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...projects that a critical pedagogy approach might look at could include: Can school councils support articulate pupils who will engage as better citizens? Do they provide ‘pupil voice’, or just act as pseudo-democratic facilitators of school governance? Could going out to meet families in the homes of pupils thought of as ‘deficit’ in educational ability uncover...
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Article 10 mins
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...project with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), I interviewed a volunteer for a local women’s team who noted that finding venues for just 6 home fixtures was incredibly challenging. An informal hierarchy seemed to be in place when it came to booking fixtures – established men’s teams first, newer men’s teams next, then boy’s fixtures and only then would...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...project, starting your own business or mentoring others? What self-talk do you have when you don’t get something at work that you have applied/worked hard for? If there is nothing that comes to mind in the workplace, is there anything you would like to do in your personal life, but something is holding you back? For example, learning to play an instrument, learning a...
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Article 10 mins
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...Introduction - The problem of who, or what, are ‘Europeans’ is at the centre of many of the most acute political and social issues confronting contemporary Europe. Can a genuine European identity be constructed within Europe, and if so on what basis? This question is of even greater importance as the European Union expands and becomes ever more multicultural in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding Statements of participation
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Understanding Statements of participation

...Introduction and Guidance Read every page of the course and submit any quizzes within it. You will be notified by email if you have received a Statement of participation but please allow up to 24 hours for this to happen. At this point, it will also appear in your ‘My OpenLearn Profile’ in the Achievements section, and be available to you to download. The Statement of...
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Video 10 mins
Wanted! Starlings
Nature & Environment

Wanted! Starlings

...introductions were often initiated by European colonists wanting to introduce species from their native countries to their new homes abroad. One well-recorded example was the release of 100 starlings in New York, rumoured to be part of an attempt to introduce all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays to North America. Records of the releases and genetic analysis of...
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Article 5 mins
Childhood in the Digital Age
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Childhood in the Digital Age

...Introduction - Childhood in the Digital Age (#1/5) How is technology changing childhood in the digital age? Are children’s lives today significantly different from our own or is technology simply solving old problems in new ways? The media has claimed that digital technology is making children lonelier, fatter, more aggressive and less capable of deep thought. But...
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Audio 15 mins
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world. They have profoundly affected how we have understood...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs