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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...community context are identified as ‘local knowledge’. It is believed to facilitate social change and is an essential gatekeeper for empowering local communities. The process of internalizing local knowledge is manifested in our everyday life, for example, adherence to the local customs and celebration of localised practices. The ongoing local knowledge accumulation,...
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DemFest 2016
Society, Politics & Law

DemFest 2016

...through a special event. DemFest 2016 is local, national and global in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics and representation, anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, economy, education, environment and sustainability, media democratisation, neighbourhood and community, public services and participation. It will take place 13-14 May 2016....
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Explore Welsh & Wales with OpenLearn
Languages

Explore Welsh & Wales with OpenLearn

...communicated in Welsh to avoid their plans being overheard? Or perhaps you were unaware that one of the 55 languages sent out to greet possible alien lifeforms on the NASA Voyager spacecraft was Welsh? You can find the Open University’s home of bilingual, free learning in Wales over at OpenLearn Cymru (linked below). And be sure not to miss OpenLearn's other fantastic...
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What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...community and the OU's BME network. The hub launched in November 2020 but we won't stop there. We will continually be adding content and already have some exciting projects in the pipeline! Who is it for? [This is a map of the world containing diverse people] The short answer: everyone. The long answer: Utilising the experience of staff within this institution, the hub...
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True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Community in 1973. Labour's NEC wanted the nation out - but not all the cabinet were convinced. It was Tony Benn who persuaded Wilson that the correct way to act would be to seek the will of the people: "I felt that a decision of such constitutional importance could not be contemplated without the explicit consent of the electorate in a general election or referendum....
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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally suited to political debate, and that things should be kept trivial and light-hearted. This isn’t to say that the...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...community...It was during the winter of 2014. I was at home, researching the storytelling patterns of my community. I spent days trying to persuade my grandma to tell me some of the stories from her time. But she’s always been moody, and she wouldn’t comply. Then one morning, out of the blue, she started telling me stories. After the first one, I had this gut feeling...
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Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...communicate science to the masses and make it accessible. See the box below: Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and later confined to a wheelchair and forced to communicate via a computerised voice. But he continued his theoretical work and was outspoken on many things over much of...
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