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TESSA: Listening to Pupils
Education & Development

TESSA: Listening to Pupils

...the TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Be Careful Ibrahim learns the importance of water and oxygen from a story Dawi tells him TESSA - The Eye Witness Kwame doesn't listen to his pupil and wishes he had. TESSA - Catch the Thief Major is not believed but then catches a thief TESSA - Something Good Jude's snap decision costs him money...
TESSA: Motivating Pupils
Education & Development

TESSA: Motivating Pupils

...formal and non formal learning situations. This material is from the TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - The Music Teacher Florence invites a special music teacher into the classroom TESSA - Anything for School Adjua wants to go to school, even though she is sick TESSA - Plantain Seller Linus motivates his daughter, Ngozi, to win a race...
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...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 the music industry. We also hear personal stories from...
Exploring youth violence: what would you do?
Education & Development

Exploring youth violence: what would you do?

...education and welfare services. To understand some of the problems these young people can face today, step into the shoes of Tyler and Rafi and live a day of their life in our ‘What would you do’ interactive. Please note, that this interactive contains depictions of racism, which you may find upsetting. [What would you do interactive launch page - two young men on the...
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

...education and social care professionals involved in the lives of their autistic children. This included: struggles to secure a diagnosis challenges associated with accessing (specialised) education provision securing opportunities for socialisation and self-care (for both mother and child) managing the financial consequences of caregiving and planning for the practical...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...education, working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas...
Globalisation and the English language
History & The Arts

Globalisation and the English language

...technology – that has had the greatest impact on the English language. English is a world language now, the dominant language of science, computing and academia in general. But looking back 100 years, to the start of the first world war, it wasn’t so clear that English would be so dominant. People stayed in the area they grew up in, but we’ve seen tremendous changes...