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bullet point Our Past Our Future
 

Explore Celebrate, an on-line animation with 3 characters, Jack, Zain and Karanjit. A KS2 learning resource.
Wolf City High looks at today's issues with an animated photo-story.

Accompanied by teachers notes.

Requires Flash Payer.

 

bullet point Archive Raiders
 
Enter a forgotten wing of Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies and see what previous generations have left behind. Listen to stories about Wolverhampton’s past and learn about Wolverhampton’s horse-drawn buses and Wolverhampton Wanderers’ first match at Molineaux Stadium. Archive Raiders is an interactive exploration of local history to complement the Key Stage II history and geography curricula.  

 
bullet point Gazebo Theatre Presents 'Home'


Also Available on CD-ROM

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info@light-house.co.uk

Early in 2004, the Gazebo Theatre in Education Company presented “Home” in primary schools across Wolverhampton and Walsall. Inspired by the BE-ME project, “Home” presents the experiences of minority ethnic peoples settling in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. This package has been designed for educators and administrators to introduce the BE-ME project and theatre-in-education as valuable tools for accessing the PSHE and citizenship curricula.  

 
bullet point Telling Our Stories
 
Designed for use by students in the University of Wolverhampton School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences module HS2017 “Telling Our Stories: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Twentieth-Century Britain,” this package examines classifications of gender, ethnicity and class in twentieth-century Britain and introduces students to the theory and practice of oral history. Video clips from the Black and Ethnic Minority Experience archive support the information provided in Black History, Women’s History and Oral History. Users are encouraged to use the tasks as thinking points for discussion and to access the Resources link for further research.  

 
bullet point Moving Stories
 
Take a journey through history! Travel with Narinder and Leroy as they make their way to Wolverhampton. Moving Stories is an interactive learning package that explores the Key Stage II geography, history and PSHE curricula through stories of migration across history, from the Centurion Maximus to Saleem, who came from Ethiopia to study medicine at the University of Wolverhampton.  

 
bullet point Open Faith
 
Open Faith features an interactive map representing the different faiths of Wolverhampton. Through this map, visitors to the website can access information about each faith and Wolverhampton’s places of worship, as well as a series of interviews with members of Wolverhampton’s many faith communities. Open Faith is ideal for learners at the further or higher education level.  

 

bullet point People and Organisations (HR1004)
University of Wolverhampton Business School
This package was developed for the undergraduate module People and Organisations at the University of Wolverhampton Business School. Since October 2002 most first-year undergraduate business students have taken this module. The module covers a number of themes focused on the work environment in the UK. Through this package, students take a close look at diversity and equal opportunities at work. Clips from the BE-ME archive support the course information and facilitate individual and group activities.  

bullet point Psychology-Gender (AS Level)
Washwood Heath Technology College
This package traces the development of androgynous traits among Asian and Caribbean settlers in Wolverhampton and examines this development through Sandra Bem's cognitive theories. Androgynous behaviour is interpreted as an adaptive response among some respondents to their new environment.

bullet point Psychology-Social Cognition (AS level)
Washwood Heath Technology College
This package focuses on the concept “social cognition.” BE-ME clips are used to illustrate the ways in which mechanisms of social cognition can be used to mediate prejudice. Through these clips, it is possible to see the ways in which social cognition affected the experiences of BE-ME respondents.

bullet point Transcultural Health Issues - School of Health, University of Wolverhampton.
This learning package draws on the content and activities that students experience in one session of the Advanced Transcultural Health Issues module, part of the Health Studies MSc. The package explores the issues of race and culture and how these issues impact on access and service provision in the NHS. Through the use of BE-ME archive, students can begin to question the historical foundations of race issues in health.

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'New Settlers'
Grove Primary School Wolverhampton
Key Stage II

Students from Washwood Heath Technology College accompanied BE-ME's Educational Co-ordinator to the Grove Primary School to help deliver a series of interactive lessons exploring the history of settlement, work and community in Wolverhampton.

 

 


 

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