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Stoke exemplification for primary science (SEPS) pupil work collections
No full textStoke exemplification for primary science (SEPS) for Key Stage 1 and 2. Collections of pupil work to support moderations discussions and teacher assessment. Reports compiled by Dr Sarah Earle in collaboration with the teachers of Stoke on Trent and beyond, as part of the Science Across the City project
An introduction to inclusive practice with Dr. Sharon Colilles [podcast]
No full textFor the first episode of season three of the TTS Talking Early Years Podcast, Shaddai Tembo is joined by Dr. Sharon Colilles, a senior lecturer in Early Childhood studies at Bath Spa University and associate trainer for Early Education. Shaddai and Sharon introduce what inclusive pedagogy is and why this is so important in the early years.
Sharon shares her perspective on inclusion and why it’s critical to consider each diverse learner individually. Ensuring their voice is heard and their perspective on decisions that are made about them within the curricular. Sharon adds that it is important to lead with a rights-based approach while also incorporating play as a vehicle for ensuring individual rights are maintained
Green Social Prescribing in practice: a case study of Walsall, UK
Get PDFThis paper presents a case study of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) in Walsall, a medium-sized urban area located in the West Midlands, UK. GSP is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local non-clinical nature-based activities, e.g., community gardening and conservation volunteering. As a new practice to address multiple challenges in health and sustainability, GSP has been promoted by the UK government and the NHS in the past few years. There is as yet limited evidence and knowledge about how this approach is implemented at a local level. This paper addresses this gap of knowledge, by exploring how GSP is implemented in Walsall as a case study. Based on extensive engagement and research activities with the local partners to collect data, this paper reveals the local contexts of GSP, the referral pathways, and people’s lived experience, discussing the challenges, barriers, and opportunities in delivering GSP at the local level. This study suggests that a more collaborative and genuine place-based approach is essential, and alongside GSP, investment into infrastructure is needed to move the health paradigm further from ‘prevention’ to ‘promotion’ so that more people can benefit from what nature can offer
Social worker working conditions and psychological health: a longitudinal study
Get PDFGood social work benefits the recipients of the social worker role, social workers themselves, their employing organisations and society more broadly. However, it is difficult to conduct consistently good social work when social workers have been shown to have chronically poor working conditions. This article, therefore, outlines UK social worker working conditions and well-being from 2022, as well as comparing these results to surveys conducted in 2017 and 2018. We, therefore, report a series of cross-sectional surveys, in addition to open-ended questions, to collect data from 533 respondents in 2022, and compare these to findings from similar surveys in previous years. Results demonstrate that working conditions improved slightly between 2018 and 2022, although these conditions are still very poor compared with other occupations. Qualitative analyses suggest that work-load, resources, lack of respect and lack of consistent and good quality reflective supervision are significant issues for respondents. As such, we argue that policy makers and employers need to provide greater support for social worker working conditions and well-being, and that this support would likely negate current high levels of turnover and sickness absence. Additionally, however, for the first time in these surveys, poor pay also emerged as an issue needing attention
Writing in Englishes: taking control of the technology of power through literary aesthetics: a keynote speech to the African Studies Association Conference, 2021
Get PDFAs language increasingly becomes uncoupled from the nation state, transnational writers, transnational African writers, and African writers are using language to serve their own purposes and creating new literary aesthetics. This essay, first given as a keynote speech to the 2021 African Studies Association Annual Conference, examines some debates about the relationship between language and power and argues that these are being upended by writers who do not fit conventional categories, including transnational African writers. These writers are exploring the range of options presented by their own multilingualism and making unapologetic aesthetic claims upon the English language
Exploring the geographical palimpsest of place through fieldwork
No full textFieldwork offers students unique opportunities to encounter different landscapes and environments. Such opportunities are invaluable for exploring physical, human and applied geographies. Students can apply theory learned in class to the real-world, develop awareness and understanding of the differences inherent in places, recognise the changing nature of environments and explore the complexity of geographical issues and processes. In particular, the development of a sense of place is often pivotal to students acquiring a better understanding and deeper learning of geographical issues. Fieldwork encounters will vary by individual and environment, influencing the affective domain, and the behavioural and academic responses of students to (un)familiar environments. This chapter examines, firstly, the need to reconnect students to fieldwork in post-pandemic times and support their experiences, as some express anxiety. Secondly, the use of a palimpsest approach is explored as a method to better understand and engage with place and to facilitate deeper levels of meaning. Thirdly, two teachers of A-level geography apply a palimpsest approach in creating a fieldwork investigation of Hessle Road in Hull, UK, with their students. They reveal the benefits of the approach which can be modified for use at a variety of educational levels. The palimpsest offers a holistic approach to reveal the traces and meanings of the past that exist in the present. It encourages deeper learning by revealing potential avenues of investigation to inform a greater sense of place
looking forwards, looking backwards
Get PDFThis piece is part of a series of labyrinth pieces I’ve been working on recently, which ask the players to find a route through a series of paths in a melodic line. In looking forwards, looking backwards, the violin and piano are asked to navigate to particular points in the line and wait for each other there, before continuing to the next point. Sometimes the routes are straightforward, but at other times more complex and take longer to follow. The title relates to the planning needed by the players to work out their movement, and also to the fact this is a birthday present for Penny Norton to play with her daughter Anna, and the sense that birthdays give as moments of recollection and anticipation
Hackfall and postmodern deep mapping: a case study of amplifying chosen images with implications for practice [blog post]
No full textMy objective in this short article is to present a deep map of Hackfall Woods which is located near Masham in North Yorkshire and to illustrate one way of going about crafting a deep map, using in this instance 6 images with accompanying text. It is a case study of sorts, and I hope it also raises for you as the reader the questions: which locality might you select; and what images would convey its special significance for you