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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...working in education at any level and any context to engage in teacher inquiry, practitioner research or scholarship. Through structured activities introducing the 4D model of appreciative inquiry, you will use story techniques to identify existing strengths...This free course, An appreciative approach to inquiry, is designed to support groups of practitioners or...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...work), while for most of the twentieth century it has been seen as something against which collective action and defence by the state was necessary. Unemployment was not a social problem in the UK for most of the nineteenth century, although the unemployed themselves were certainly seen as a threat to social order (being beggars, thieves and a bad example to other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...worked over the years to develop feature-rich applications and enterprise ready systems, that not only compare to, but exceed proprietary options, must feel like pinching themselves. [Door outside in the woods] You can open some things, but it doesn't always mean there's any value to it Long gone are the arguments around viability (is the open source option “enterprise...
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Article 5 mins
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...working in the health service and may not, therefore, be able to continue working if they have children to look after. This would result in a reduction of the health system's capacity to cope. Such a scenario may well have been a consideration in the UK government’s response so far, however, it would also imply policy options that, in this case, the government did not...
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Article 15 mins
On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...working for Brexit. Central to these claims is that “the EU now costs the UK over £350 million each week” and “Our EU contributions are enough to build a new, fully-staffed NHS hospital every week”. An assertion repeated on the side of the ‘Vote Leave’ group’s campaign bus (together with an unauthorised NHS logo) and in their leaflets distributed to...
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Article 10 mins
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...work in cities where rental prices are soaring, and working-class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing geographies of the UK. Throughout the module, you will be introduced to...
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Article 5 mins
What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...working children nomadic groups ethnic and linguistic minorities children and young people affected by crisis those with special learning needs and disabilities. If we consider education outside of school settings, we can also add other groups to this list: adults with low literacy skills, for example, those who have been excluded or prevented from completing the level of...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...working politics at Stormont, but more a first response to that formal ending of the IRA armed campaign; and “the starting pistol being fired on normalisation”. Those words were spoken to me in a face-to-face meeting with Mervyn Wynne Jones on that Saturday, July 30th 2005. At the time, he was the chief press officer at Army Headquarters in Northern Ireland. As I...
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