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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...manage these uncomfortable feelings. Kathy found herself reflecting on her evolving identity which meant developing ideas within her writing. Academic writers talk about ‘voice’ in their work. Kathy advises thinking about the voice you use when writing, how this impacts on what you say and how you say it. There are other experiences that made a huge difference to Dr...
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...managed to start working in television, but I think from that moment I wanted to try and do what I could and highlight some of the issues that were affecting the planet. What inspired me Ooh, I mean I think the Attenborough series are obvious, aren’t they? They created an awareness and love for the natural world which I think is very important. It’s difficult, I...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...manage this change. However, UK cities have not traditionally had a strong voice in migration debates and migration has not always figured strongly in discussions around how to shape the future of communities. This reflects the narrowness of the migration debate, which often reinforces polarisation and oversimplification. Incorporating a wider range of voices and...
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
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...Introduction - In this free course, Assessment in secondary mathematics, you will be asked to look at many issues that surround assessment. Assessment is about establishing where a student is in their learning. Sometimes the intention behind that assessment is to sum up and/or certify what a student has attained over a period of learning – this is known as summative...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Introduction - The material presented here focuses on a key question for criminologists, criminal justice policy-makers and politicians: ‘Does prison work?’ The material is an audio file, originally 28 minutes in length, and examines the issues around this apparently simple criminological question. It was recorded in 1995. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...Introduction - This course will deal with reception of music from a number of different perspectives, all of which involve consideration of cultural contexts outside Europe. We will consider reception both in general, cross-cultural perspective and in the specific case of Sundanese wayang golék (rod-puppet theatre), and we will consider the influence of both social and...
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Introduction - This course looks at a selection of short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as ‘Lieder’ (the German for ‘songs’). Once they became widely known, Schubert's Lieder influenced generations of songwriters up to the present day. This course discusses a choice of Schubert's...