Fliss Bull

Teacher, Mum and Doctoral Research Student at University of Sussex. Interested in post-human and post-critical philosophy and education.

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@susie_dent One borrowed from a mate’s Granny and now widely used in our house. When someone is nagging/pestering you, “don’t chew me, I can’t do to be chewed”

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@rachaelclerke You may be interested in Philosophy with Children and Communities of Enquiry. Particularly the work of Karin Murris & Joanna Haynes.

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@Mollieloubaker I’ve been there myself Mollie. Add an operation to the accompanying fatigue of caring for a newborn and you are bound to feel utterly shattered. I didn’t have a PhD to contend with back then and could barely function! Take good care of yourself x

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Nobody deserves racist abuse ever. Sancho, Rashford and Saka don’t have to earn their immunity from hatred by committing good deeds or winning penalty points for England. I stand with them irregardless of the fact they are commendable young people because I stand against racism.

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@DavidAAldridge @ian_cushing Agreed. So often ideas are presented as politically neutral when actually grounded within particular logics (neoliberalism, colonialism, individualism, human exceptionalism). Result is increasingly circular, inescapable discourses of ‘crisis’ and ‘solution’ but never ‘purpose’.

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@AbiHackett @soutomanning Yes I have always wondered how the very prescriptive phonics programmes allow/disallow different regional and ethnic pronunciations of sounds. It feels to be grounded in a colonial logic whilst being presented as neutral: a Pygmalion pedagogy?

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@AbiHackett @MMUEducation @BloomsburyAcEd @ey_TACTYC I so enjoyed engaging with it! Thank you for writing it 😊 it was a wonderfully resonant experience that also introduced me to some fascinating new ideas and literature.

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My review of the wonderful book More Than Human Literacies in Early Childhood by @AbiHackett for TACTYC is live: https://t.co/1eDnc1F9Fk

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@miss_cameronx @MrTs_NQTs Some local authorities run free courses for new to reception. They are often a bit of a mixed bag but worth a look and you will meet other local reception teachers, which can be helpful

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Delighted to have worked with @KirbyPerpetua Kirby, P. & Webb, R. (2021) Conceptualising uncertainty and the role of the teacher, Special Edition on Youth Climate Activism and Climate Change, Educational Review https://t.co/43BLW4YwPs @SussexUniESW @SussexCIRCY @transform_in_ed

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@milton_damian @OldManBull1 you might be interested in attending this

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@JoAlbinClark @ChristinaMacRae @ESRI_mmu @Parise_CM @earlyartsuk It’s all a bit Aldous Huxley!

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@Sarahhdbristol https://t.co/OiNNkRbyc0

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@SussexCIRCY @SussexUniESW @SussexDocSchool Fascinating and timely, thank you Martin. This idea of ‘forgetting’ is a powerful one; as the instrumentalisation of life intensifies and we find ourselves trapped within the circular logic of measurement & data. As Haraway (2016) entreats: “Think we must. We must think”

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Very excited to be listening to @LouMycroft and @KaySocLearn speak tonight about the Thinking Environment and Anti-Fascist Education #PosthumanPedagogies

[Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸ @KaySocLearn]

Getting excited for this! Joining info will be sent to participants later today (and still time to sign up :)

The Thinking Environment and Anti-Fascist Education Tickets, Tue 27 Apr 2021 at 20:00 | Eventbrite https://t.co/wAAbSLOgvL

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@commaficionado So sorry to hear this. What a rubbish experience. This sort of thing is massively frustrating and so easily avoided with good communication. The only silver lining is that if they were that thoughtless at interview then they’d have probably been a nightmare to work for.

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@MichaelRosenYes I learned a new word recently: ‘ultracrepidarian’ Thanks so much to Gav for helping me to practice using it in context every time he speaks 👍

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@RMatthewsPsyEdu Completely agree. EMC with 1st left me totally exhausted and miserable as I was so reluctant to have it (and them to give me it) that I laboured 36 hrs before the op. By 2nd, 14hr in, I overrode docs who were pushing for forceps at 5cm dilation - much better c-sec experience!

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@KaySocLearn It makes me think about Hannah Arendt’s writing on ‘the banality of evil’ and how fascism is not always borne out of a deep hatred but systems that simultaneously isolate, unworld, divide and reward compliance