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Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)

...Introduction - Welcome to Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England), a course designed to support practice educators (PEs) in England. Designed for PEs with lapsed currency, this course will enable you to update your knowledge and skills in supporting and assessing social work students and apprentices in their practice placements. You should...
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...Introduction - At some point in everyday life, it’s likely that you’ll come across information represented in charts, graphs and tables. It can be very useful to know how to interpret this information, and in other circumstances, to present your own findings in this way. This course will help you to develop the skills you need to do this, and gain the confidence to...
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...Introduction - Learning a language requires an understanding the cultures of its speakers. This free course, Exploring languages and cultures, explores the multiple relationships between languages and cultures. You will learn about the benefits and challenges of meeting people from different cultures, what it means to be plurilingual and pluricultural, and the ways in...
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Understanding Classical terms
History & The Arts

Understanding Classical terms

...project is to create maps out of Herodotus’ text and use them to rethink our conceptions of geographic space. Years At the OU, course teams have opted for BCE (‘Before the Common Era’) and CE (‘Common Era’) to refer to dates (using them in the same way as the more traditional BC and AD, meaning Before Christ and Anno Domini or ‘in the year of our Lord’)....
Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...project) the teachers were given space and time to let their thoughts and emotions surface and to commit these to paper without fear of evaluation or an expectation they would be shared. (For more detail on Just Write see Debra Myhill’s recent blog). As they did so it appeared they brought to mind a sense of themselves, past and present; they regularly chose to write...
Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...project, a partnership between the Open University and national charities Action for Children and Working With Men. The research team carried out interviews in various locations across the UK with vulnerable young men and women and male and female staff in services for young offenders, care leavers, young carers, and disabled young people. In the interviews, some young...
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Project Fear'... Just as the Brexit campaign accuses the government of running Project Fear, the National Referendum Campaign's 'Why You Should Vote No' leaflet warned of pro-EEC scaremongering: It is scare-mongering to pretend that withdrawal from the Common Market would mean heavy unemployment or loss of trade. In a very few years we shall enjoy in North Sea oil a...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting. But the dynamics of online spaces have also facilitated more nuanced debate about the social implications of research, and its potential to perpetuate inequalities...“Brain Study Confirms Gender Stereotypes”, “Why Men Are Better at Map Reading”, “Women Wired to Multitask”, “Women Crap at...