SOAS University of London
- Start Date: 05 Dec, 2022
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore how migration can be taught using both visual storytelling and big data sets.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Help learners understand where, why, and how migration happens
There have been urgent recent calls for curricula to address issues of migration. Yet 78% of British teachers asked by the Runnymede Trust said they needed more support “to equip them to teach migration more sensitively and effectively.”
On this course, teachers can develop their skills to explain where and why migration happens. You’ll learn how to interpret big data sets, examining migration research through video and learning activities.
You’ll also explore creative methods of storytelling, visual arts, and design to humanise migration stories through arts and empathic learning.
This course is designed for teachers educators who want to know how to teach migration using data and storytelling. It would also appeal to anyone learning from home interested in these issues, or educators and learners interested in critical thinking, data skills, independent investigation, and understanding the reliability of sources.
The resources were designed to be taught with students having access to computers for data analysis of a large data set, but some teachers have adapted the resources to use print outs of subsets of the data.
Please note, this is an unmoderated course. It was created at the beginning of Covid-19 and may only be occasionally updated.
To take part in this course you will need to know how to use google sheets, or to feel confident to download a google sheet and use excel.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
SOAS University of London
SOAS, University of London is the only Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.
SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
On the one hand, this means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - confronting two-thirds of humankind while at the same time remaining guardians of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK.
This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain.
SOAS’s academic focus on the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes it an indispensable interpreter in a complex world.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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