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Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...work finding a natural affinity with the strand of International Relations (IR) that drew upon social constructivism, and with it an attendant focus on how issues of culture and identity affect relations between states. For my own work, however, I wanted to delve deeper. I was not, and am still not really guided by the International Relations scholar’s desire for...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves. Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation; it is reading that children do for themselves at their own pace, with whom they choose and in their own way. Reading for pleasure is more...
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Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...social justice, security and community. The tracks on this album explore how forms and practices of surveillance reveal the entanglements between welfare, crime and society and the tensions and overlaps between policies aimed at delivering social welfare and those intended to control crime. The material is drawn from the course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare,...
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Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...social networking can be done informally and outside of the regular work environment, its value to your professional development can be marked (Davis, 2011). By sharing with peers and experts via networks, you can advance your online teaching skillset more rapidly than you would do alone, and solve issues that you may encounter by asking for assistance from your network....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...working at all levels of music education would be out of work if it didn't! From my own experience I can say without hesitation that understanding how music works, learning how it's put together, can indeed enrich the listening experience and make one fully appreciate the finer details of what makes music 'tick'. I'm going to look at different ways of encouraging you to...
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Article 10 mins
‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...worked in a bar in Fife. Here she recounts her personal experience with sexual harrassment in the workplace...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Setting the Scene Two old guys at the bar where I was working: “Whaur’s ma New Year’s kiss then?” “Aye, and whaur’s mine?” “No thank you,” I said. “Aw, come...
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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?...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...social media changing the way that children form relationships? How is technology changing the way that children think, and how will it shape the classroom of the future? The amount of technology available to children today is greater than in any previous generation, and it is more specifically designed to capture their imaginations. There is heated debate as to how the...
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Video 15 mins