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The Open University

Introducing Union Black

The Open University via OpenLearn

Overview

This free course, Introducing Union Black, aims to build your confidence as a change agent for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. For some learners, this will be a journey into a little-known or misunderstood history and experiences of people racialised as non-white and, for many others, it will be an affirmation of being in the rightful place in our diverse twenty-first century. Whatever your background, the course will give you the opportunity to hear from contributors from a range of backgrounds, lived experiences, thoughts and voices, which are designed to help inform, inspire, challenge and enable you to take steps towards anti-racism. Engaging in this course will contribute to building skills, including empathy, understanding anti-racism, understanding different cultures, diversity, inclusion and allyship.

Syllabus

  • 1 Empathy, sympathy and compassion
  • 1.1 Why talk about empathy?
  • 1.2 So, what is compassion?
  • 2 Having difficult conversations about race
  • 2.1 Undoing bias: labelling
  • 2.2 Undoing bias: constructed stereotypes
  • 2.3 Undoing bias: learning about others
  • 3 So – what ARE you?
  • 3.1 I am not just one thing
  • 3.2 Pride in your identity
  • 4 Stepping stones towards anti-racism
  • 4.1 Where to start
  • 4.2 Empathy as a first step to anti-racism
  • 5 Summary

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