{"id":2680,"date":"2016-06-14T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2016-06-14T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:47:22","slug":"pygmalion-zeus-and-ou-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Pygmalion, Zeus and OU slippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On 11th June, Jess Hughes and Dan Weinbren discussed how Greek myths have been employed to help us understand the history of the OU. Professor Sewart argued that the OU was like Athena, in that it sprang forth, fully armed, from the head of Zeus. However, Dan Weinbren suggested that this myth marginalised the longer roots of the OU in 18thC part-time courses for adults, nineteenth century correspondence courses and 20<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"> century radio and television. It also marginalised the role of women, notably Jennie Lee, and the role of the state and the market. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">We also discussed the value and uses of Ovid\u2019s \u2018Pygmalion\u2019 tale, updated by Bernard Shaw just prior to the First World War and again in the film \u2018My Fair Lady\u2019 before there was another incarnation in the 1980s with \u2018Educating Rita\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\">In addition, we considered if the slippers and wellies story, now so frequently retold, was a myth of the OU. See <a href=\"http:\/\/studenthublive.kmi.open.ac.uk\/\" >here<\/a> for the discussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th June, Jess Hughes and Dan Weinbren discussed how Greek myths have been employed to help us understand the history of the OU. Professor Sewart argued that the OU was like Athena, in that it sprang forth, fully armed, from the head of Zeus. However, Dan Weinbren suggested that this myth marginalised the longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history-of-the-ou","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}