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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...source. She can ventriloquise convincingly and displays an extraordinary breadth of subject matter covering social history, science, music, history and politics in language that is always inventive, challenging and thought-provoking. References and further reading Sinéad Morrissey on The Poetry Foundation “The Millihelen”
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Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...sources that can be used to advance a reflexive and decolonial anthropology and sociology of religion. In the late nineteenth century, white, European anthropologists and sociologists posed themselves the following question: what were the origins of religion? They assumed that the answer to the question lay in a long distant past and they chose to answer it using two...
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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...source of concern globally, nationally and regionally, in terms of social justice, human rights, gender inequality, health and well-being and health inequalities. FGM is increasingly denounced through international and national legislation in many parts of the world, including in the UK and Ireland. It is a significant safeguarding and child protection issue. FGM inflicts...
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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...to services is equitable and not interrupted. Families already understand the source of their conflict with schools, but they might use the framework to communicate and negotiate with schools and services. Key messages for policymakers At a four nations policy level, the study’s recommendations include: Specific, ongoing training in inclusive practice, working in partnership with children and their families for those ......
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The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...Open University course E109 Exploring perspectives on young children’s lives and learning...The family at the centre of early learning: Learning Outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider how a person’s childhood experiences of family practices and traditions can influence the way they parent their own children describe what companionable...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...Open University’s Arts and languages Access module, introduces you to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of different examples of graffiti, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, ‘tags’ in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald’s advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...open and honest with his single reader in each case – himself in his diary and Lady Ottoline in the letter – and felt no need in his attack to introduce the obscurity that he used in his ‘Protest’. In the third extract Sassoon stands back slightly to put his views into the mouth of his fictional character, George, but when he wrote this in 1930 there was no need...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...sources, like New York Times reporters, who didn’t understand or prioritize complexities of identity and just called everyone “men” in articles that are now primary sources. Some came from within the LGBT community, which, dusting itself off and finding that it suddenly was a community, suffered from infighting — RadFems and Lesbian Liberation Movement members...
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