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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...articulated a ‘social model’ of disability. This separates the notion of disability and impairment or condition etc. It asserts people are not disabled by their bodies or minds, rather by the barriers and exclusions they face in everyday lives. These are multiple in form, i.e. environmental, societal, conceptual. Disabled people have impairments i.e. physical,...
Creative Writing
History & The Arts

Creative Writing

...articulate detail. This material forms part of The Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing... Tanika Gupta on Voice Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. Helen Blakeman and Setting Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the...
Audio 2 hrs 28 mins
How did the election look from Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

How did the election look from Europe?

...Le Monde saw the upswing in Conservative popularity as an opportunity for the party to “shake off Thatcher’s legacy” and to “smother” the Labour opposition. Its centre-right counterpart Le Figaro pointed to May’s opportunism. It saw the election as a chance for her to strengthen her hand in the fractious leadership relations within the Conservative Party. The...
Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...articulated. Picking something as amorphous and contestable as identity in states’ foreign policies can be trickier than focusing on, say, the number of weapons or amount of money it might have and use. As a result, I have to draw on the works that best give meaning to these issues. That means that the knowledge and explanation I’m producing is in one way utterly...
A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

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

...le hiarracht a dhéanamh moill a chur ar an chreimeadh teanga. I 1984, nuair a thosaigh Oideas Gael, thiocfadh linn siúl trasna an bhealaigh go Tigh Bhiddy agus gan ach Gaeilge a chluinstin ón fhoireann agus ón chuideachta ann. Sa lá inniu (2015) tá an tírdreach teanga imithe as a riocht go hiomlán seachas mar a bhí. Níl ach cupla teaglach lóistín anois le hais...
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...articulation of protest...This free course, Visions of protest: graffiti, introduces students to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of graffiti examples, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, 'tags' in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald's advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...articulate it well. Inquiries also identify some key vocabulary or terms that can be used to inform further independent research. Responses submitted as part of the call for evidence are often published on inquiry websites, providing a primary source of opinion, rather than one mediated by any media reporting on the matter. The individuals and organisations that provide...
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) will give you a chance to see features of the Gothic at work within a literary example from the period. You can then try out some of these devices for yourself through a creative writing exercise. Let’s begin by setting out the basic characteristics of what is meant by ‘the Gothic’ in literature. What is Gothic? What do you think of when...