Teacher educators - time to take a hard look at education theory + thinkers represented in your curriculum. Dewey/Vygotsky/Bloom/Skinner - more latterly, Rosenshine/Hattie/Wiliam?
Can you truly encourage trainees to decolonise subject areas while delivering a white curriculum?
At today’s fascinating teach-out, arranged alongside
@CultureDeclares. Some cause for hope in an otherwise pessimistic landscape in exploring racist dimensions to climate breakdown. #ucustrikeback#FourFights. Leon Sealey-Huggins is an extremely articulate advocate for justice.
To find / modify the selection from my session this afternoon, find me on Spotify, and seek out the Political Songs and Poems playlist: https://t.co/3JVmrArYwE. #itsacryanshame. #FourFights. @KDeclares @huducu
Problem is in these situations that governments act too late. A ban on travel from Europe to the Americas could have had real public health benefits; but the time to do it was 1492
Support the UCU strike action against the gender and BAME pay gap, increasing casualisation, excessive workloads and pay in higher education. May be the last day but we will continue to stand in solidarity! #UCUstrikesback#Solidarity