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Open Education Week 2017
Education & Development

Open Education Week 2017

...English and Welsh. [I'm possible] We've pulled together our own experiences of creating free courses and have produced the free course How to create an open online course. It's aimed at anyone who wants to gain the skills and knowledge to design, structure and produce their own open online course. We also offer a place to host your own course (for free!) on OpenLearn...
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Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...English Literature in The Open University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and has contributed to over 13 modules, been Director of Level 1 Teaching, Associate Dean (Curriculum), Dean of Arts, and interim Executive Dean of FASS, before returning to regular academic life. Richard addresses the three key themes of poetry, comparison and education. After exploring the...
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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
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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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...English is often introduced in grade four. The content of the curriculum relates to daily experience, social development and technological innovation. It is based on the four pillars of learning: “learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.” At secondary level, the academic curriculum includes Chinese, mathematics, physics,...
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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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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...everyday; to explore, in other words, the politics of ordinary and mundane political acts which are routinely seen as a background to the ‘real’ politics of the state. Considering the implications of the current political climate, the seminar series serves as a platform for reflecting on the extent to which our conceptual and methodological tools are appropriate for...
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Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...everyday community creativity and diversity for a while now. When I began to experience symptoms 16 years ago, I found myself needing new strategies and knowledge in order to improve my experience of daily life. At first it did not occur to me to connect my creative practice (largely singing) with this health and existential challenge. Those passing through the menopause...
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