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Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...involve student teachers watching and copying their mentor’s approach to managing a class. Enquiry orientation In this paradigm teachers act on ethical, political and pedagogical issues in a considered, skillful and reflective way to construct their own knowledge from a range of sources. The enquiry-orientation is concerned with problem solving. For example, each learning opportunity is used to try different approaches, to......
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...class voters. Previous Republican nominees such as John McCain, who embraced generous immigration policies, and Mitt Romney, who advocated free trade, never managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the most of...
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Article 5 mins
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...class political reform movement, carried banners on their mass marches, but sadly, there are no surviving examples. In the early twentieth century, women in the suffrage movement carried hand-crafted banners in demonstrations. Religious processions involving banners used to be common on important dates in the Christian calendar and some still take place nowadays. Recent...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...of the war - the Belfast republican Brian Keenan; a man the Canadian General John de Chastelain only ever referred to as ‘O’Neill’. Not once did I hear him call him by his name. It was part of the confidentiality of decommissioning - part of not telling its detail, and the IRA, at all times, was pushing back unionist demands for a published inventory and photographic proof. None of this happened. Nor was the DUP’s ......
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Article 5 mins
How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?
Society, Politics & Law

How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?

...LA Times asked ahead of the ceremony whether the new president would rise to “a level of logic and eloquence that might bring the sceptical around to his view of the nation.” Based on Trump’s rhetorical track record, this was, the same paper admitted, a pipe dream. The “logic and eloquence” the LA Times hoped for are not what won Trump the presidency; nor are...
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Article 5 mins
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...class women, but eventually joined the campaign for women’s suffrage. You will also spend some time with the prominent suffragette May Billinghurst, as well as looking at the ways in which the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the First World War shaped and affected the battle for the vote. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish
Languages

Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish

...de Comedias A documentary about the Corral de Comedias, a famous, historic open-air theatre in Almagro. The actors discuss the origins of their troupe, the special architecture of the theatre, their repertoire of comic plays from the Spanish Golden Age and members of the public give their verdict on the theatre and the play. At the tourist office A scene where a tourist...
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Video 26 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...la force / Vivre libre ou mourir / Il n’y a de véritable liberté qu’avec la religion, les loix … constitution’ (’Unity is strength / Live free or die / There is no true liberty without religion, laws … constitution’). Discussion This painting seeks to immortalise the union of Black and mixed-race slaves that allowed Haiti to defeat the French Republic and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs