3,189 search results
A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...work in a rural school in the outskirts of Oxfordshire which is predominantly non-black ? sort of speakers, pretty much 90 to 99 per cent white. Its eleven to eighteen mixed comparison school. Q Ok, right then I just want you to say who you are? T I’m a British Asian Muslim I have trained here at the department of education here at Oxford and I have been teaching now...
View course A global dimension to science education in schools
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...work in this chapter, but has yet to be made explicit. It is a convention for marking the difference between using a word and mentioning it. Italy has a capital city, and the English language contains a word for that city, but the word and the city are distinct entities. When we are talking about the word rather than what the word is about, we are mentioning that word....
View course Language and thought: introducing representation
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, brought Mexican mural artists international acclaim and Rivera was subsequently awarded important commissions in the United States. Yet, due to his commitment to a figurative form of propaganda, Rivera’s reputation suffered during the Cold War period and these Mexican murals are now largely left out of dominant accounts...
View course Art and the Mexican Revolution
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...work has stimulated a massive and very productive field of research with important implications for childcare. This OpenLearn course describes Bowlby's theory and the work that has built on it, illustrated with video recordings of the assessment of attachment in a laboratory setting and a talk by an eminent attachment researcher...This free course, Attachment in the early...
View course Attachment in the early years
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...working for the UK’s ‘flag-carrier’, British Airways (BA). However, the disputes taking place in summer 2022 are a continuing legacy of management attempts to undermine trade unions and erode pay and conditions over successive decades. They also reflect historic resistance by BA workers. In this article I highlight my own involvement in some of the major disputes...
View article Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Article 5 mins
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...working iteratively with the human research ethics committee to support equity-based design and conduct. Alison Buckler illustrates her responses through examples from her experiences within the Ibali project, which has evolved into an international knowledge network, and the CHILD project in Zimbabwe (Power et al., 2021). At one point in the video Alison points...
View article Equity-based research design
Article 30 mins
My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
View video My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Video 5 mins
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...work has focused on the concept of personality – a highly familiar, and yet complex, psychological concept. Traditionally, personality is viewed by psychologists as the collection of traits, needs, values, self-beliefs, and social attitudes that make a person unique. This approach also suggests that each person exhibits consistent and stable patterns of behaviour across...
View course Social psychology and politics
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs