Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by Bell Hooks My rating: 5 of 5 stars In her introduction, hooks writes about finding herself at home in Cultural Studies ‘where interdisciplinary work [as opposed to the conventional specialised & periodised pedagogy she’d felt so limited by] was encouraged and affirmed’. When white male academics in the US discovered… Continue reading Living the message
My dad pointed out that my previous post is esoteric, so I’m trying to write a more accessible one, rather than just thinking out loud. Folks, I am a science teacher. One of the things I always try to do with my students is teach them not to trust science uncritically. Science has a sociology,… Continue reading In search of the body
You Wouldn’t Understand…: White Teachers in Multi-Ethnic Classrooms by Sarah Pearce My rating: 5 of 5 stars In response to this article I commented: I can highly recommend this book which I read during my PGCE. It’s written by a White woman teaching in a multiracial school (White readers will find the dismantling of her… Continue reading Race-conscious primary teaching
I regularly call my Mum when anxiety threatens to overwhelm me. “I’ve got a new student. I’m scared. They’re supposedly working at a high level. What if I can’t help them?” “Relax darling, you’ll be fine.” she soothes, leaving me a little calmer but unconvinced . After the session I send a text “That was… Continue reading Imposter syndrome: my experience
Words of my brother on reading this article by Dr Vandana Shiva” “Brilliant. We need a resource based economy.. not based on the gold standard, not based on our economic growth forecasts.. just based on the available resources and our ability to obtain them at sustainable rates. We have to face up to the fact… Continue reading This.
Storify by RoseAnnaStar Sat, Oct 19 2013 23:32:34 Rescuing the blonde: anti-Roma racism again Two face charges over blond-haired girl found in Gypsy camp Greek officials have launched an international campaign to try to identify a four-year-old blond-haired, blue-eyed girl found in a Gypsy … Helena Smith Zanna@RoseAnnaStar So a four year old… Continue reading Rescuing the blonde: anti-Roma racism again
Wait, Why would nomadism get in the way of the pleasures of childhood? Sedentarist ignorance. ZANNA@ROSEANNASTAR·10 HOURS AGO clatter-bones @notwaving @RoseAnnaStar the only thing it gets in the way of is schooling Zanna @RoseAnnaStar . @notwaving yep the education system is also horribly sedentarist, & problem compounded by the general hostility to Gypsy/Roma/Travellers clatter-bones @notwaving… Continue reading On Gypsy Roma Traveller Exclusion & Racism
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by Rudy Katoch Today we launch our #EightWomen Poll. 134 Notable Women of Colour, all successful in their fields, all have made a difference – but who would you vote has changed the U.K? The eight women will be revealed at Media Diversity UK’s launch event in late November. You…
Yesterday I saw this blog post and heard a Gove-ite slapping down the advocates of learning-through-play on radio 4. Here’s my view: The counterargument I heard on the radio from the Gove side was that starting school later would increase the inequality in educational achievement caused by poverty/deprivation, because we would be leaving it later… Continue reading Starting school later: widening the gap?
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By Damilola Odelola Top Boy returned for its second season in September, after a year-long hiatus, it resumed a comfortable spot. The story follows a group of young (and sometimes older) people on a fictional Hackney estate, Summerhouse, involved with drug dealing and gang violence. During it’s first season, it was…
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