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Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...free course, Becoming a reflective practitioner, explains what is meant by reflective practice and how to ensure that reflection leads to learning. As a beginner teacher you will encounter many contradictions and challenges in school; you will learn to teach in a particular context but will need to be able to transfer your learning to new contexts. Critical reflection...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...free online course, Applying social work law to asylum and immigration, you will hear from social work practitioners, lawyers, advocates and advice workers about the ways in which social work practitioners can support people with insecure immigration status, people with refugee status and people seeking asylum more effectively. [Photograph of a demonstration with the...
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...free course, Exploring Ovid’s big ideas, you will find out why Ovid’s work is still so relevant today. You will meet characters from ancient myth like Actaeon the hunter who was turned into a stag, and Ta’aroa the ancient Pacific Islander god who lived in a shell. And you will discover how ancient stories still give us new ways of thinking about the modern world’s...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...free courses in our Language and cultures hub...Week 2: Culture and identity: References - Articles and Books Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. (2009) National identity, nationalism and constitutional change. In National identity, nationalism and constitutional change pp. 1-16. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Benwell, B. and Stokoe, E., (2006) Theorising Discourse and identity....
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...course. Transcript This free course will help you to become familiar with the requirements and demands of postgraduate study, and to develop the skills and confidence to pursue your learning further. It will help you to consider some conventions for critiquing academic writing and develop your understanding of the challenges of demonstrating critical awareness of a...
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues and offers tools for making sense of the complexity that results. The case of land grab illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in connections that link different places, different people and their...
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...free course, Assessing risk in engineering, work and life, investigates how we can manage risks at work, in the home and in the wider community. Risk is tied in with accidents so it is vital to understand how accidents arise, how likely they are to occur and how they can be prevented. These subjects are all covered in this course...Risk is something that must be taken...
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...free course, Music and its media, examines some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. It considers how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time; and how the appearance and contents of a source can reflect the circumstances in which it is produced. The course focuses on three examples of musical media that allow us to study music of the...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs