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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...social issues, such as urban poverty and the failings of Victorian social welfare. At times, in his statements about so-called ‘savagery’, his writing plays with inferences about the comparative savagery of Victorian society and in his memorable figure of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1850) he suggests that the British should pay attention to the mounting social...
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Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...social work education? In this seminar Dr Claire Felix-Baptiste aims to promote best practice in supporting Black students in social work education. The findings from this study are equally relevant to health and social care professional educators supporting Black students. [Unknown title] Transcript Supporting Black declaration of mental health: Black staff at the OU's...
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...social media was starting to play a more significant part in our language learning community too. Very soon, I was connecting with hundreds of other language learners via Facebook and Twitter too. I was able to meet with some of them also. The very first Polyglot Conference During the summer of 2011 in Poznan, through conversations with Luca Lampariello, the idea of...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...social problems are often the consequences of choices people make". From saying that the less fortunate have only themselves to blame for their situation, it is only a short journey first to rationalising social inequality and then to justifying the benefit cuts now being visited on our "chavs" and their families. And what of the non-Tory response to this fundamental...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...social movement which has galvanised support among the young, disadvantaged, those often excluded from political discussion and debate and also those active across a wide range of social issues in many different parties, organisations and campaigning groups. One of the most oft-quoted comments that has been vocalised before, during and after the 2014 Indy Ref was then SNP...
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Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...social care, the independent or voluntary sector, local government, education and almost any other sector in the UK. You will learn by the end of this course that public health is an issue for all people too, whether they live alone or in a family. In short, public health is ‘everybody’s business’ and the aim of public health bodies is to improve health and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is inclusive design and how are Microsoft using it to make the XBox better?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is inclusive design and how are Microsoft using it to make the XBox better?

...social gaming experience..."It's really just about a design process that meets everybody's needs..." Inclusive design is a step beyond taking a design and making it accessible - as the XBox team explain, it's about rethinking how you design altogether. Transcript Full transcipt - and much more on Microsoft's approach to inclusive design, including a set of toolkits to...
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