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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...education, since the views and perspectives of these groups are not well reflected in western society. Like many UK institutions, Buckingham Palace in its efforts to modernise, invited Black and Brown people to events, but need to do much more work on how to ensure their events are inclusive. This involves better understanding of the part that the British Empire played in...
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works with which audiences might be unfamiliar. You will then turn your attention to how we might change things, covering where to find information and scores, creating new editions, and commissioning new works by women composers, which you will go on to consider in...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...educational attainment and poor literacy/numeracy skills, are unemployed and come from a lower income or impoverished background. There is a stronger link, therefore, between poverty and prisons than there is between dangerousness and prisons. In the U.S. around 16,000 people die each year as a result of street crime. Contrast this with the 55,000 who die as a result of...
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Education...Children and young people’s participation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the complexity of participation for children and young people compare and contrast different cultural perspectives and experiences of participation reflect critically on personal professional practice and assumptions regarding...
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...education, beliefs, values, traditions, customs and norms, and we are socialised into ‘our’ world by dint of our birthplace, our primary caregivers and era...Introducing Union Black: 1.2 So, what is compassion? - The major difference between compassion and empathy is that empathy is about understanding the suffering of others, but it stops short of actually helping...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...educational and social opportunities, often at great financial or personal cost. At the same time, the parenting practices and beliefs of my participants are influenced by the cultural values of the society they grew up in. [Women holding a girl learning to walk.] It is against this backdrop of different ideologies, migration experiences and cultural values attached to...
How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target
Society, Politics & Law

How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target

...education and strategy, but we should recognise that liberty unites us much more than these disagreements divide us. Positive thinking It remains for politicians to make speeches that can bring us together. But each of us must also have a positive attitude towards our society, which offers so much liberty and possibility. Don’t forget what those who wage war on us would...
Life Beyond Earth: The Big Debate
Science, Maths & Technology

Life Beyond Earth: The Big Debate

...research and aims to make academics’ work inspiring and accessible to communities in Wales. This supports institutional aims to make education open to all and supports wider OU work to build an informed, engaged and prosperous Wales. To keep up to date on our upcoming OpenTalks events, you can sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn....