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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...social care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also a Black female...
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Article 35 mins
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...social contexts. Finally, constructivists focus on how sustained interactions create new norms and expectations, which can influence even powerful states through a ‘compliance pull’. However, norm development is uneven, and violations by major powers can undermine their influence. Key thinkers include Nicholas Onuf, Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink who focus on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Being a boy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being a boy

...contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere...[The family are dining together at a table] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Activity 10 mins
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...social relations and interaction, of ‘do unto others as you would have done unto you’. Moreover, the modern notion of rights, based on claims to equality of rights and treatment, contain potentially emancipatory appeals to progressive political campaigning and action, which can imply the disruption of settled social relations within a community. The modern rights...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...social welfare outcomes. Philips (2011) advocates for a reconceptualisation of ‘institutional racism’ that is situated in a conceptual framework centred on ‘racialisation’ as conceived by Rattansi (2005). This conceptual framework explores the role of racialisation at micro, meso, and macro levels. Institutional racialisation, as opposed to institutional racism,...
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Article 10 mins
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...social behaviours online while promoting pro-social behaviours and help build tech/software that helps ensure accountability, credibility and helps facilitate justice. The Centre is comprised of five interwoven work streams: Law and Policy Human Behaviour The Future of Responsible Tech Ethical and Responsible Tech/AI Policing. Additionally, the Centre has partnered with...
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Audio 30 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...social interaction with other students and teachers. More explicitly than in ‘traditional’ distance teaching, the learner is addressed not as a passive recipient, but as an active constructor. [Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU_teacher_image] To apply the ‘Flipped Classroom’ concept into the distance learning module Rundblick:...
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Article 10 mins
Who lives where?
Education & Development

Who lives where?

...in what home...[Everett House] The aim of this activity is to explore your child’s expectations about types of dwellings and the people that live in them. You can do this by using the three pictures of houses as starting points for your child to tell some stories about the people that live in them. [Who lives where interactive] Click here to download Who lives where?...
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Activity 5 mins