Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I certainly did! Thanks for writing it!

The Inspectors were in this week, so, of course, I dressed up as a blue dinosaur and sang Johnny Cash to hundreds of students. #edusky

Tait Coles' "Critical Pedagogy".

This little gem arrived for us at work on Friday. Looking forward to reading, and sharing!

After a relentless, but positive, half-term I've promised myself I'll sit down and do some writing on Monday.

Looking forward to the students arriving. I'm INSETed out now.

#EduSky

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and reposting this one too!
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Just reposting this... #EduSky

A regular Summer "happy place" for me - Sent Antonin.

I think a Masters *can* be perfectly manageable for many - wherever they are in their career. But I also think it's *best* doing when you can really give it as much as you can. That can be at any point. Everybody is different. Well worth doing though!

I am. Fantastic work (as always) from Sarah.

Second Plea: Anybody interested in #CriticalPedagogy? #EduSky.

First plea: Any #SENDCos out there who would like to connect? (Or #SEND teachers, parents etc.) #EduSky

I did a p/t Masters (initially in SEND and Inclusion but then my focus shifted!) and loved it. From my experience of doing it (and later marking and supervising Masters students) the two biggest challenges are 1) Time and Energy to commit fully and 2) Getting the hang of academic writing rules.

Proud FCCT here. Good to see you move over!

So liking it so far, just much more pleasant.

We however run the risk of creating a pastiche of #Edutwitter, amplifying some voices (I include myself in that) and ignoring others

There are good people with things to say and valuable viewpoints surely this is an opportunity to find those voices.

You may not agree with what my views (many don't!). That's ok. I will argue for what I believe, sometimes strongly. But I have neither the power, nor the desire, to tell anyone else what to do. I welcome discussion and challenge, anything to make me think! 2/2 #EduSky.

For followers new (and old) I'm currently a SENDCo, HoD and secondary teacher in the Independent sector. Over the last 20 or so years I've taught in State, Special, Alternative and International schools as well conducting research, writing and dabbling in HE lecturing. #EduSky 1/2

Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy Published in Educational Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

My thoughts on Giroux and DuMaggio's latest book - "Fascism on Trial. Education and the possibility of democracy" - have been published by Educational Review and is available is.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3HNZT...

I think maybe there's a crucial distinction between - say - dialogic teaching as a 'tool' and dialogic teaching as a 'principle'. One is "informed by x" the other "informs y".

Maybe!

Completed Graydin's 'The Anatomy' coaching course the other day. Fantastic experience and right up my street!

There is a picture of a school doing the rounds over on Twitter that could be the semiotic 'poster boy' for my PhD thesis. So much ideological work crammed into a single image.

If you work in school, it is worth reflecting upon what is being done by the images you produce and share.

Today's empires are tomorrow's ashes.

In the wake of Gibb's departure it will be interesting to see which of his extremely online entourage voltes face, who cashes in their chips and who tries to dig in and hunker down in their neotrad outposts...

Teachers and educators should demand the same expectations and academic rigor from ourselves and our peers as we do from our students

Too many loud and influential voices haven't done their reading, don't show their working and substitute unsupported assertion for argument.

Orange Paper Pedagogy - or the vice of turning necessity into virtue. Towards the end of term in my final PGCE placement the Art Department I was working in ran out of white paper. There was no budget left to b...

New blog post:

www.stuartbracewell.net/2023/10/oran...

Busy putting together a book proposal. Any tips?

The unteachables: disability rights and the invention of black special education Published in Educational Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)

50 free eprints of my review of Keith Mayes's "The unteachables: disability rights and the invention of black special education" for @EdReview are available here...

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AZDWV...

Interesting contrast for me today between the "instructional coaching" of the Teaching Walk Thru books I took delivery of and the coaching training I did in the afternoon.

p7 of Ranciere's Ignorant Schoolmaster.

Reading Ranciere's "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" this morning and this leapt out at me as being very apt for so much of the so-called "edutrad" discourse