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Resources : Case Studies
Open2.net
There is a range of useful learning material available for free on
Open2.net - the
online learning portal from The Open University and the BBC.
See, for example, the material on the following range of topics:
- Immigration
This section includes a range of resources on immigration, including
an interactive map, video clips, text and various other text and on-line
resources.
- Slavery
This set of resources considers how slavery is still very much a worldwide
facet of modern life and its significance from an international development
perspective.
- Child
Protection
This set of resources looks at the history of the development of child
protection provisions in the UK.
Open Learn
There is also a range of study material on Open
Learn - a free online learning resource from the Open University.
The site includes a range of independent-learning units, ranging from
1 hour to 10 hours in length, and at introductory, intermediate and
advanced levels.
See the units on, for example:
- Old
Age, Work and Welfare
This 10 hour advanced course focuses on how 'old age' has been socially
constructed and how the identity of being an ‘old age pensioner’
developed during the twentieth century.
- Social
Welfare, Social Justice and Crime Control
This 5 hour intermediate level unit considers how certain groups of
people and places come to be labelled as ‘problematic’
and how social welfare and crime concerns intersect in the management
of these populations.
- Citizenship
and Refugees
This 10 hour advanced level course focuses considers 'who counts as
a refugee'. It explores the interrelationship between citizenship,
personal lives and social policy for people who have fled their country
of origin seeking asylum in the UK.
- Social
construction and Social Constructionism
This 1 hour intermediate level unit aims to explain understand the
expressions social construction and social constructionism in relation
to social policy.
- The
Development of Social Welfare Policy (The Beveridge Vision)
This 4 hour introductory unit looks at how social welfare policy started
to evolve at a national level in the UK after World War II and, in
particular, it considers attitudes towards women and immigrants.
- The
Family and Personal Relationships (What is Family?)
This 4 hour intermediate considers what is meant by 'family' and invites
you to reflect on your own views and assumptions.
- Public
Policy Making
This 7 hour masters level unit explores the relationship between 'policy'
and what actually happens in the process of delivery.
- Technology
of Crime Control
This 1 hour intermediate unit focuses on core controversies surrounding
the increased use of CCTV for the purposes of crime control and general
surveillance.
- Relations
of Welfare and Work
This unit highlights a range of issues surrounding the way in which
personal lives and social policies intersect.
Oxfam Online Learning
Oxfam have an on-line learning resource which allows the comparison
of dairy farmers in Wales and Jamaica. It is useful for exploring
issues of global inequality, world trade, activism and globalisation.
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