November 3, 2016
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Comments Off on Football and Numbers
On further reflection of numbers in football, I am going to attempt in using my skills as a football referee to explain some maths in football that even I hadn’t thought about. Something that is apparent when reviewing these numbers in football is that the preference of measurements has changed over time since football began, […] Continue reading
November 2, 2016
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Comments Off on Disabilities and Mental Health.
For me, mental health and disabilities is a topic that is always close to my heart. Since I was 14, I found a love for volunteering, and not just volunteering for Cancer Research or big charity campaigns, but I volunteered for local disability charities. The first time I ever volunteered it was for a fantastic […] Continue reading
October 17, 2016
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Comments Off on Chat Racism, Chat Sexism
In May of this year, a young African-American videogame streamer was subject to a barrage of racist abuse in the chat stream that runs alongside the video footage of his game. He was competing in a videogame festival in the USA, playing Hearthstone, an electronic card game for two opposing players. He made it all […] Continue reading
October 10, 2016
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Comments Off on The complex matter of Gender
Gender. Not too long ago, all over the world, the answer to “What is gender?” would without a doubt be ‘Male and Female’. To this day, for many people, the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ are used interchangeably, and thus incorrectly. As we have come to learn, the issue goes way beyond these two boxes. So […] Continue reading
October 7, 2016
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Comments Off on ‘Kind and Caring’
Yesterday on This Morning was broadcast an interview with Lucy Alexander – the mother of 17-year-old Felix who, in April of this year, was driven to suicide by continual bullying. She decided to take action and wrote an open letter to not only the bullies, but also teachers and other parents who might find themselves in […] Continue reading
October 5, 2016
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Comments Off on My eyes are open
I have really enjoyed the last few Values lectures on Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Its had me thinking in ways that I hadn’t considered before and has also just genuinely had me interested. Apart from the 9am starts and the 2 hour seating periods of course. “”All human beings belong to a single species and […] Continue reading
September 29, 2016
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Comments Off on “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
When I was younger, primary 5 age to be exact, I had a really influential teacher who taught me my first understandings of segregation and racism, particularly at the time of Martin Luther King Jr’s existence. It was a time, the first time, that I saw the harrowing, poignant image of the Ku Klux Klan. I […] Continue reading
September 28, 2016
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Comments Off on Values: Self, Society and The Professions Workshop
Our first values workshop started out as what seemed like a normal group task. We were randomly split up into four groups, I was put into group one. We were given an envelope which contained a variety of resources including rubbers, pens, etc.. Little did our group know, that we had been given the best […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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Comments Off on Racism and Patriarchy
My Story on Racism and Sexism. When growing up, I never looked at the colour of someones skin and judged them. I never thought about why a man was with a man or a woman with a woman. I had the privilege of being brought up in a house where it doesn’t matter where you […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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Comments Off on The ‘ugly’ doll
During our Values lecture this morning, we were discussing the ideas of racism. During the presentation, we were shown the history of racism towards African/American people from the 19th century up until the present day. It was seen that racism was a big part of history and a story in particular we spoke about was […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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Comments Off on Clever and Cunning (values module workshop)
After my first values module lecture, I left inspired, calm and collected. After my first values module workshop, I left panicked, confused and hysterical. Then I laughed, cried, then laughed again and wondered why I did not realise what was really happening during this workshop. I entered the classroom to find we were being split into four […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on The first value’s workshop
Last Tuesday marked our first workshop of the Values: Self, society and professions module. To say I was anxious about what would be involved was an understatement. When we arrived to the class we were randomly split into four different groups. I was in group four (if only I knew the implications of this beforehand). […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on Is there Social Imbalance?
The Exercise: To demonstrate social imbalance in a small scale, first the class was separated into 4 groups. We were spaced around the room and given a packet of supplies and instructed to plan and make a tool which may be useful for a future student of Dundee University. I was placed in group 1 […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on The mysterious brown envelope..
On Tuesday the the 20th of September all Education, social work and CLD students came together for our very first ‘values’ lecture. The lecture focused around the three levels of ‘bias’ and how to overcome these to make the unconscious conscious. We were also shown a video to exemplify how social structure plays a big […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on First Values Workshop
Last week, we had our first values workshop. We got separated into four groups and we had to sit around 4 separate tables with a large brown envelope; each envelope with a different number from one to four. Each envelope contained different things such as sheets of paper, paper clips, elastic bands, envelopes, etc. We […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on Our first values workshop: Experiencing inequality and how it effected the group
On Tuesday, we had our first of the values workshops. For this, we were split into 4 groups. I, unaware of what was to come, was put into group 4. All four groups were handed an envelope, that included items in which we had to use to make a resource for freshers coming into the university that […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on An envelope with potential?
I love receiving an envelope. There’s a sense of mystery and excitement when you are handed an envelope. It amazes me that something so small can hold something incredible with so much potential. You never know what you will find when you tear that seal off and look into that small space. Envelopes can hold […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Comments Off on Structural Inequalities
Last week marked the first full week of having modules, and I loved it! One of my modules is called Values: Self, Society and the Professions. On the Tuesday afternoon, we had a workshop for this module. When we arrived in the workshop we were all sat in to four groups and each group was handed […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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Comments Off on Values Module Workshop
As part of our first workshop for our Values: Self, Society and the Professions module, we were split into groups of around 10 people and given the task of creating something useful which would aid new first years arriving for their first week at the University of Dundee. There were four groups and each group […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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Comments Off on First Values Workshop
Last Tuesday we had our first values workshop. I went in completely clueless as to what we would be doing for the next hour, and I was eager to find out. Carrie split us into random groups and gave us all a huge envelope. We were told to use the resources inside our envelope to […] Continue reading
