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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...everyday practice – often without us realising. This article explores how rethinking those assumptions can lead to more inclusive learning environments where every learner’s strengths are valued...Our beliefs about how people learn are not as abstract as they might seem. They show up in everyday practice, subtly shaping how inclusion is understood and acted on –...
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Article 5 mins
How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...English poet Wilfred Owen was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh to recuperate. Much of our awareness of Owen’s time at Craiglockhart comes from Pat Barker’s beautifully crafted novel Regeneration (1991), and Stephen MacDonald’s play Not About Heroes (1982). MacDonald’s work focused mainly on the relationship between Owen and fellow soldier-poet...
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A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...English has now become the dominant means of communication over most of what is officially an Irish-speaking area. On the other hand, development, combined with the decreasing job opportunities both overseas and elsewhere in Ireland, stemmed the flow of emigration and the local population increased for the first time in living memory. [inside cottage in Glencolmcille folk...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...English Types of bread in the Netherlands have historically been divided east-west and north-south, determined by the cereal that was grown. In the south-west wheat was grown on the clay soil and brown bread was baked from this. In the south and east rye bread was eaten because of rye and oat harvests. White bread used to indicate status. For centuries Dutch bakers...
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How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...English’ name meant they got lower grades. Feeling disappointed when wanting to study issues around ethnicity, and finding that their tutor did not understand these issues sufficiently well to guide them. A lack of confidence in understanding academic material and writing academically. This was expressed by students whose first language was English, and who felt their...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...everyday working lives which contribute to the overall development of equality, participation and inclusion. However, if we wish to explore how to play a leading role in the delivery of inclusive education we have to begin with our understanding of what it is that the education system is trying to achieve. This echoes ideas from a study in Denmark (Thingstrup, Schmidt &...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...English is an official language (Appiah, 2004). Whiteness seems to be global in its power yet very personal in its meaning, invisibly forging a subjective sense of self and yet alsocapable of building geo-political alliances spanning history and continents. Being born in Ghana I’ve always known I’m not Black but my Whiteness is not something I see easily in the...
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Video 30 mins
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...English-controlled land. What happened next isn’t entirely clear, but for the modern bone hunter the problem isn’t a lack of evidence – it’s too much of it. In the Middle Ages, five different establishments claimed to own Oswald’s head, from Durham in England through to Hildesheim in Germany, whose magnificent head reliquary survives to this day. 2. Eadgyth (d....
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Article 10 mins