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Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...articulation? But even if there are these different ways of approaching it, you make this explicit rather than just leaving students floundering, and saying, oh, god, he said that and he said that. Who’s right? But equally, what I’m saying is where stuff is out there, and there is more and more stuff out there, you’ll find your students will increasingly be looking...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Le deuxième sexe II: 13/267) is for her, a philosophical platitude. But Beauvoir also rejects the anti-essentialist view: Being a woman is, at least in our world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...articulating beliefs about knowledge, the subject and how people learn. In this course you will examine ideas about knowledge and learning, and how these manifest themselves in the classroom. Now listen to an introduction to this course by its author, Kris Stutchbury: An introduction to Secondary learning Kris Stutchbury Hello. I’m Kris Stutchbury. I’ve worked for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...articulate this vision at every opportunity and influence their staff and other stakeholders to share the vision (Bush and Glover, 2003, p. 5). Note down your thoughts about these differing views of leadership. You might find it useful to discuss your views with a colleague. [Described image] Figure 1 Educational leadership A sense of the scope of the field of study is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...articulating any particular party or even tendency within the Welsh political spectrum. But if you canvassed the views of the fifteen players in the current Welsh National Fifteens and what their political views are I think you might be surprised by the wide spectrum of opinion you got. Hugh Mackay: Can we move on finally to cultural representations? Ways in which through...
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Audio 20 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...articulating authoritative positions on the teaching of English, and to defending the subject’s fundamental principles in educational and political forums. NATE came into being in 1963 in order to develop and promote the progressive, inspirational, modern approaches to English teaching which most teachers now recognise as essential to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment...
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Article 5 mins
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...articulate the beliefs, fears and visions of those communities, even if the state doesn’t like that, even if it is off-message. And it seems to me that, at the moment, the balance is a little bit on the state side, where the state is sponsoring the repainting of the murals which is fine and some of the murals they’ve sponsored have been good, enjoyable murals, but it...
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Article 5 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...articulate difference rather than pretending they don’t exist. Mary Madeleine Arnot. Citizenship as a notion has produced a rallying cry for different pressure groups to focus on and has led policy makers to begin to acknowledge and take account of equal rights for all citizens. Helen Meekosha. Helen One of the most exciting things for disabled people has been the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr