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...writing on race, the OpenLearn resources represent ongoing attempts to describe and give meaning to value-laden knowledge and understanding and to challenge dominant Eurocentric norms that ignore or relegate indigenous and non-white/Western perspectives and knowledge. These resources describe (an ongoing) social history of race and racism. In reading or writing for these...

...write these numbers in order, smallest first: 0.7, 0.3 and 0.36 on mini-whiteboards. You will find that the three most common responses are: 0.3, 0.36, 0.7 (correct) 0.3, 0.7, 0.36 (student ignores decimal point) 0.36, 0.7, 0.3 (student may think that the largest number after the decimal point gives the smallest decimal). Students could well offer other answers, for a...

...creative solutions for problems that no-one has yet considered. Is education fit for the future in your context? What do you think the purpose of education should be? How should it respond to global drivers of change? In this free course you'll reflect on possible purposes for education. You'll then look to the future to think about what educationalists can do to fit the...