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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...social data. Who controls what the image is saying? You will look at how photographs provide visual evidence and how they can illustrate and support our ideas about society...What does a picture or an image tell you? This free course, Reading visual images, is an introduction to analysing and interpreting photographs as social data. Who controls what the image is saying?...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is language?
Languages

What is language?

...work?...This short animated video explores the fundamental questions about the origin and function of language, and gives a quick introduction to the history and social significance of our communicative abilities. Transcript If this piece has piqued your interest in the world of words, we have many language courses available for you to study. If you want to know more...
The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...social processes impacted on the rundale system, the delicate balance which it had maintained was broken and the result was poverty and political reaction. The eventual outcome was complete reform of the system of landholding and settlement that created compact, independent, small farms. The pattern preferred by the Irish Government’s Commissioners was ‘squared’...
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...social, political or economic power. Such research has endeavoured to call into question why it is that some harmful actions are viewed as ‘criminal’ while others are not. At the same time, research agendas that have sought to examine the actions of the powerful have simultaneously called into question claims about ‘neutrality’, ‘objectivity’, and...
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Dive deeper with these extra articles
Society, Politics & Law

Dive deeper with these extra articles

...social and emotional capital): Asset Mapping: Comparative approaches A working paper reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of asset mapping and similar approaches: Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities Traces Project is a multimedia learning project, focusing untold history of arts and culture contributions by...
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...work and resources are available to support children’s social and emotional learning, but very rarely from an arts-based approach. We strongly believe that an arts-based approach, and dance in particular, offers an extra dimension through the physicality of movement: where embodiment and exploration of physical metaphors and representations of emotions offers a context...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...social context? What challenges do these experiences present for someone working in a school? Are there perspectives you would like to hear from in relation to experiences in school? When you have finished reading you may want to have a discussion with friends or colleagues. Table 2: Abstracts Bradbury, A., Tereshchenko, A. and Mills, M., (2022) Minoritised teachers’...
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...social and political movements and events. In the nineteenth century, for example the Chartists, a working class political reform movement, carried banners on their mass marches, but sadly, there are no surviving examples. In the early twentieth century, women in the suffrage movement carried hand-crafted banners in demonstrations. Religious processions involving banners...