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Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...la vuelta al cole”: millions of youngsters returning to school, or for some at the age of three, suffering their first experience of classrooms and education. The costs of providing returning and new students with the texts they will need to complete the 2016 curricula in the public and other state assisted schools preoccupies the Spanish electorate at the start of each...
The Wheel Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

The Wheel Learning Hub

A collection of free courses and resources to support the development of leadership skills within the charity and community sectors in Ireland. [The Wheel logo]
Open sanctuary hub
Education & Development

Open sanctuary hub

This hub is a space of welcome for refugees, people in the asylum system and the wider community. It offers free courses covering a range of subjects.
MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU
Languages

MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU

...communication, healthcare and many other real-life settings. You will develop a solid grounding in a range of ideas and techniques within applied linguistics (e.g. semantics, pragmatics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis, ethnography, language and globalisation, role of technologies) and apply this to case studies from a variety of contexts. You will...
Mi'kmaq: First Nation people
History & The Arts

Mi'kmaq: First Nation people

...community who discuss the benefits and difficulties in attempting to hold on to their ancestry. This material forms part of the Open University course A332 Why is religion controversial?... A community reawakening The Mi'kmaq people have lived in Newfoundland for generations Living off the land Their diet would often depend on the season Mi'kmaq culture 25 years ago Conne...
Islam in the West
History & The Arts

Islam in the West

...community leaders. The course will be of particular relevance to teachers, social workers, police and health professionals. This material is taken from The Open University Course AD252 Islam in the West: the Politics of Co-existence... Islam in the West A short introduction to this album. Relating to wider society through inter-faith relations A look at the spiritual...
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...communication needs of the team are. These in turn are affected by the nature of the task that the team has been created to carry out. In this section we discuss four types of team: project teams, operational teams, self-managed (or self-directed) teams, and communities of practice. In practice, it is often the case that teams do not fall clearly into one type of team,...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...communities, which tend to have a shared culture and sense of history and belonging. Children’s sense of ethnicity will therefore also tend to be influenced by the events around them in their local community as well as by what they see on television and the ways in which ethnic differences tend to be portrayed. These influences can also begin from a very early age, as...