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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...attention is being paid by educators to students’ cultural backgrounds and learning styles. Such an approach might go some way to reducing the degree awarding gap in the UK, in addition to addressing feelings of exclusion and alienation. Addressing Decolonisation in Higher Education Education has been described as a continuing colonial project which is part of a...
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Article 10 mins
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...attention to their own professional qualifications (as, for example, SEND teachers, speech therapists and social workers) in hopes that ‘credentialising’ themselves in this way would result in them being taken more seriously and increase the chances of securing much-needed resource for their families. Indeed, three of the nine interviewees stated that they had...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...attention instead to writing piano works. She was a gifted pianist herself and also a remarkably astute business-woman. Her piano works became extremely popular, and she found a massive following for her compositions among amateur pianists. In the US, her music inspired so much passion that hundreds of Chaminade music clubs were founded. The English composer, conductor,...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...non-social difficulties, many autistic people also have enhanced skills such as good attention to and memory for detail, or natural ability with numbers or IT. A very small proportion of individuals on the spectrum have outstanding talents in fields including art and music. While social, language and sensory challenges may mean that an autistic person finds it hard to function in a mainstream school or workplace ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...attention span. Why bother writing a sentence when an abbreviation would do, and leave you more time to blog, poke, and reboot when your hard drive crashed? In my humble opinion became IMHO. By the way became BTW. And if we’re honest that life threatening accident was pretty hilarious simply became fail. Some changes even passed into spoken English. For your...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...attention to the ‘newer’ ways in which the notion of problem populations is being mobilised. As you work through the course, you are encouraged to reflect on some of the possible historical antecedents that might influence contemporary manifestations of such ways of thinking, as well as on how ideas of problem populations come to be associated with particular social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...attention to the social, cultural, and political contexts within which popular music is produced and consumed, rather than necessarily focusing upon the musical notes themselves. This course follows this approach. Its central question is not whether the musical grammar of 1960s American popular music was in itself revolutionary, but rather the impact of a period of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...attention, she enjoyed a strong sense of belonging. By using appropriate prompts and vocabulary (‘look over there’, ‘opposite’, ‘Big Ben’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘across’), Cerys’s grandparents shared communication as they learned together from the day’s activities. Cerys learned more about her grandparents’ love, empathy and playfulness, and they...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs