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Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...history of politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women” as Bill Clinton (who was after all in the room), his opponent replied with a carefully prepared commentary, saying that unlike any prior Republican candidate she had encountered, Trump was not fit to serve. She also made sure to note that besides women, he had also attacked many minorities –...
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...History Month tried to decolonise the Western cultural stigmatisation that still surrounds African and African-Caribbean religions even today. The Middle Passage The forced and constant movement and encounter of different people, languages, goods, cultures, religions, and objects, in the Atlantic space, assisted the development of new religious identities...We cannot...
Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...history in relation to slavery, colonialism and immigration, the power dynamics within this conversation, even if unintentional, are significantly heightened. This is Me [Fish, chips, mushy peas and a slice of lemon, wrapped in newspaper] We can therefore see that this question sits within the complex realm of identity. If I tell you that I am English, having been born in...
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who is courageous, temperate, pious and just; above all, someone who is wise....
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...family and community in holistic ways...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 1.2 Where would you like to be? - The experience of being within cultures underpinned by the values and priorities evident in Activity 1 will be profoundly different and produce very different teaching practices. In a Turkish study of more than 400 teachers for instance (Sonmez & Gokmenoglu,...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the channel controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the Channel Controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency...