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More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’
Society, Politics & Law

More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’

...becomes an interesting study for students of sociology or for observers of society. This coexistence is not always peaceful. There have been awful violations of human dignity in the recent past in Gujarat, Kashmir…yet Indian School showcases how most of India lives, a ‘salad bowl’ not a ‘melting pot’. Each community preserves its unique flavour, rubbing off on...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. (Freire, 1970, p. 53) With this view, the teacher’s pedagogical role is: to ‘fill’ the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. (Freire, 1970, p. 57) The potential consequences for children’s...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...students, rather than institutions and educators. Data about the gap refers to students obtaining ‘good’ classifications in their degrees, either firsts or seconds. According to Advance HE (2020), in the 2019/20 academic year, the proportion of white students who graduated with a first or upper second-class degree was significantly higher than their black counter...
Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...students have said they gained from studying their MA: "This is my third Masters but, despite now having a young family, this is the one I have worked the hardest at and am getting the most out of. In particular, this is the only one which has really helped me gain the skills of analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." -...
A trip to Brighton
History & The Arts

A trip to Brighton

...becoming the modern city of Brighton and Hove was the passion for sea bathing that led to the Prince Regent's decision to build what is now known as the Royal Pavilion there. Try a free course sample: The design and construction of Brighton Pavilion The design of the Pavilion was heavily influenced by the poetry and beliefs of the Romantic movement. Explore the other...
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains...“I’m mad about disability sport and love learning new things”, says Yasmin who’s just completed her first year of a Sports, Fitness and Coaching degree with the OU. Having left school after her GCSEs, she began a career working...
Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...students. This provides two challenges for learners. They either need to fully understand or They need to be able to ask questions to understand. Lack of understanding could be the result of two factors. It could be that the learner has not understood the idea or it could be due to a lack of understanding the language used to express the idea. In both cases, the learner...
Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...OU degree, found some to support her during her studies and others just for the fun of learning (and improving her quizzing skills!), as she explains...[OpenLearn case study user Charity Reed] ‘I’ve loved discovering OpenLearn,’ Charity told us, ‘I genuinely don’t think I’ll ever not use OpenLearn if I’m honest.’ For Charity, her OpenLearn discovery began...
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