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Exploring youth violence: what would you do?
Education & Development

Exploring youth violence: what would you do?

...Open University's Childhood and Youth Studies courses and qualifications. Many young people are increasingly becoming marginalised, having to contend with a multitude of social ills and risks: crime, violence, substance misuse, fragile families, homelessness, and limited access to education and welfare services. To understand some of the problems these young people can...
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Activity 15 mins
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to future success in...
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Audio 19 mins
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...educational structures, resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices within...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation

...Open University's Managing my money for young adults course on OpenLearn Create funded by the Harrison Foundation and support by the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility. You make thousands of decisions every day, some are are trivial, and some are hard and could affect your future. Personal financial decisions (decisions related to your income, spending, savings or...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...educational leadership. This Badged Open Course is part of a collection of training resources for school governors in Wales...Welcome This course provides a brief introduction to the field of educational leadership. You can also access the other courses in this collection: Inclusive education: knowing what we mean and Teamwork: an introduction for school governors.......
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...resources-education/ 700childrens/ 2018/ 10/ container-baby-syndrome (Accessed: 12 April 2023). Hall, E., Linnea Howe, S., Roberts, S., Foster Shaffer, L. and Williams, E. (2014) ‘What can we learn through careful observation of infants and toddlers in nature?’ Children, Youth & Environments, 24(2), pp. 192–214. Harrison, Y. (2004) ‘The relationship between...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...Open University offers a number of modules and qualifications in postgraduate education studies...Learning to teach: An introduction to classroom research: Learning outcomes - After studying this unit, you should be able to: understand what makes something ‘research’ rather than reflective practice know how to approach the design of a piece of research understand two...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is today Scotland's largest teaching union. Established for the 'promotion of sound learning and the benefit of teachers', the EIS remains a campaigning, growing and highly effective trade union...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses. On 18 September 1847, around 600 teachers from across Scotland, gathered...
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