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

East Sussex
Joined June 2019
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.
My review of the wonderful book More Than Human Literacies in Early Childhood by @AbiHackett for TACTYC is live: tactyc.org.uk/books-reviews/
Very excited to be listening to @LouMycroft and @KaySocLearn speak tonight about the Thinking Environment and Anti-Fascist Education #PosthumanPedagogies
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 eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-think…
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‘Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.’ brainpickings.org/2018/04/10…
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Really enjoying the new Adam Curtis series on the BBC: complex entangled vignettes playing with different conceptualisations of self, power and agency alongside his usual magical interweaving of music and archive footage
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the government harnesses nostalgia as a disciplinary technology. Please read if interested: link.medium.com/8iORYU8Bhdb
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A word for modern times? ‘panxiety’ (noun): a collective, existential sense of unease, worry and dread, symptoms of which include: doomscrolling, an inability to concentrate, irritability and political antipathy.
The most beautiful and coordinated murmuration I have ever seen... practically shimmering xitter.cf/zone_edu_plus/status/1…
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Am wondering about the reality constructed by some of the DfE home learning narratives. If we could just download knowledge directly into children’s brains via a computer programme then would we? Should we? What is ‘learning’?
Evocative visual tales of children’s’ ambivalent entanglements with coronavirus.
Check out our inspirational gallery of children’s pictures capturing their experiences of coronavirus. We are incredibly touched ❤️ childrenheard.com/gallery
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My blog post on hope and uncertainty in education
Did he seriously just suggest that 4 year olds could sit at a desk all day? I bloody despair.........
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Replying to @BBCPolitics
He says they will teach children at individual desks. Seriously, for reception and year 1.... Seriously ?!🤯😱😭
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