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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...education institutions offer Catalan Studies, as do 24 in the US. Catalan is the ninth language in Europe in terms of number of speakers – more than Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Greek. More than 80 television channels and more that 100 radio stations are broadcast daily in Catalan and there is a long publishing tradition. Each year in Spain almost 6,000 books are...
How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...education and economic gains since the genocide. Some individuals do not feel particularly connected to the memorial sites. Yet they still attend the ceremonies. This can cause conflicts of memory, especially when what is being remembered differs according to an individuals’s experience of the genocidal process. So it is important to ask Rwandans how urwibutso and...
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...education opportunities in schools, in prisons and in courts and through the delivery of free legal advice in our virtual law clinic. The Open Justice Centre has developed a range of projects that help people who need support and pro bono legal advice – to find out more read our Annual Report, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. A collaboration between the...
A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...education and the criminal justice system, to name a few. Stereotypes abound regarding Black and minority ethnic people in relation to how pain is experienced, which are based on myths that have been perpetuated from the days of transatlantic slavery and ‘race science’ where Black bodies had been thought not to experience pain (for example, the experiments of Marion...
Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...educational practices or amplifying oppressed voices) and articulate political critique and push for social justice and decolonisation. With rising social inequalities, global threats like the resurgence of fascism, genocides and the climate collapse, the relationship between Hip Hop and the Institution will only become thornier, and so the conference has laid out the...
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...educational initiative associated with The Reading Agency, which works with public libraries and schools to run children's reading groups. Scholastic has information and various links related to setting up and joining book clubs. Your pupils could get involved with the CBBC Book Club and talk about the books they like on this website. Best of all, you could start your own...
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Education programme at the Open University. PAYAM REZAIE And I'm Payam Rezaie. I'm a Reader and the Programme Director for the Science Master's programme at the OU. ERIC ADDAE-KYEREMEH Between us, we have more than 30 years of experience in teaching postgraduate students, producing and leading qualifications across different programmes at the OU and elsewhere. PAYAM...
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...educators and leaders working with young people in both formal and informal educational settings. The course will provide practical guidance and resources for running workshops for young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to stimulate reflection on religious diversity. Young people and religion: creative learning with history presents conclusions from a major European...