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The Open University

Advancing Black leadership

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Overview

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This free course, Advancing Black leadership, explores techniques members of the Black and Minority Ethnic communities can use to influence people and organisations with power. Advancing Black leadership builds on and consolidates learning from the Introducing Black leadership course.Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they’re a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development.Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge.The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once you complete the course we would also value your feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. This course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. It can be used to provide evidence of continuing professional development and on successful completion of the course you will be awarded 24 CPD points. Evidence of your CPD achievement is provided on the free Statement of Participation awarded on completion.Anyone wishing to provide evidence of their enrolment on this course is able to do so by sharing their Activity Record on their OpenLearn Profile, which is available before completion of the course and earning of the Statement of Participation.  

Syllabus

  • Week 1: Understanding power and its effects
  • Week 2: Frameworks of power
  • Week 3: From power to resistance
  • Week 4: Forms of resistance
  • Week 5: Influencing professional power of local public services
  • Week 6: Influencing the power of corporations on the ground
  • Week 7: Campaigning
  • Week 8: Organising – building collectives for change

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  • Anonymous
    I found the course to be insightful. It discussed the 5 Ps of Power-which was a new concept for me. I also learned about basic leadership principles and the mobility of structures via the Black Lives Matter movement. I learned how housing influenced power in the UK and I also learned that your body and how it is treated yields power. There was discussion of critical race theory as well. I found the course to be of interest in references to World Powers, Politics, Policing, and the law.

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