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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...refugee background is labelled as having ‘language difficulties’. While this may highlight a legitimate need, it also risks framing the student through a deficit lens. What might happen if, instead, we asked: What strengths does this learner bring? What experiences, resilience and perspectives could enrich the learning community? This reframing could transform not...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...seekers in Bali’s pubs and clubs. In contrast to these individual and community-led strategies, we also met communities that were, or had been engaged in government-sponsored initiatives and investment. This included more than one failed attempt to establish commercial seaweed farms, even though these had thrived in other locations. On another island, almost the entire...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...refugee issues that accompanied the formation of the state of Israel in 1947. Yet in recent decades, it has increasingly acquired a religious dimension. On the other hand, religion cannot be easily separated out as a factor from other forces in culture and society. When historians analyse the so-called ‘wars of religion’ in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe,...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...refugee crisis and our connected histories of colonialism and empire. Eurostat (2016). Statistics Explained: Acquisition of Citizenship Statistics. “Fair and Controlled Immigration” (2017). In Change Britain. Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E.; Boatca, M. and S. Costa. 2010. "Introduction: Decolonizing European Sociology: Different paths towards a pending project." In...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...asylum had been prominent. Nor were these sentiments without a basis on the streets. Surveys show Londoners consistently valuing the city's cultural and ethnic mix and seeing that as central to London's identity. The Guardian, on the 21st of January that year, had published a special supplement: 'London: the world in one city: a special celebration of the most...
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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...asylum and refugees, there is an even stronger reason for saying we must know about these things because they’re to do with the way we live, they’re to do with how and where we live. And of course every day, in the case of asylum and refugees, every day this is an issue in a kind of public discourse in the way that people speak and the way that the government...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...seeker Requests more information to help in making decisions Opinion giver Provides opinions, values and feelings Opinion seeker Requests the opinions of others in making decisions Coordinator Shows relationships of ideas to organise the discussion Energiser Stimulates the group to continue working Evaluator/critic Questions the group’s ideas and procedures Social...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...refugee schools in Kenya: meaningful and active pupil engagement inclusive and respectful learning environment differentiated instruction constructive classroom discourse varied comprehension checks and assessments conceptual learning and critical thinking relevant curriculum and language(s) of instruction. No classroom will evidence all these descriptors all the time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs