You can read the full piece by Colin Waugh here. It's well worth a read.

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Excellent piece on EP Thompson and Independent Working Class Education from Colin Waugh in the latest issue of Post-16 Educator.

He talks about the influence of William Morris on EP Thompson when Thompson worked in Leeds Uni's extra-mural dept.

Read Colin's work on IWCE!

My lecture at the #GAConf24 - Power: A New and Essential Lens for Geography Education - was attended by a room full of people excited by the prospect.

📺Now available (fully sub'd) on YT.

❓How will you incorporate ‘Power’ in your classroom?

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This is a really superb reflection, modelling a decolonial ethics of care , collaboration and constructive critique.

Can you support Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Ed find out what Year 7, Year 8, and Year 9 students in England think about climate change and sustainability education?

Survey link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bl…
Instructions for teachers: shorturl.at/iwAG5

#CIGE was global movement of educators, researchers, students & artists #DawnGill inspired Many knew & used materials (1983/84 GLC & ILEA anti-racist inspectorate). A decade recovering dispersed archives & writing/publishing is morethan 'collating' #citeright #histgeogsantiracism

LGHG 7th May 2024 IHR A panel discussion of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) by Catherine Hall history.ac.uk/events/a-panel…

Top things out of conference:
1) When the pay award is made we will put it to members. The STRB must assert independence.

2) We want to work with a new Labour government - but we won't tolerate their cuts either.

3) Funding, funding, funding - it underpins the crisis in…

Enjoyed collaborating with Iram Sammar and Hope Nyabienda on our different contexts in which we decolonise our curriculums, such excellent people to work with and learn from. #GoodVibes Geographical Association #GAConf24

Is it too late to promote my session tomorrow at 15:00 at #GAConf24 on 'Promoting critical thinking through art in the geography classroom'? Please come 😅

A powerful reflection, in these two extended posts, on the relationship between football and the changes afflicting towns like Skem over the past 4 decades or so. Also some important reflections on changing how we speak about and treat young people too

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At our centenary event for EP Thompson Tariq Ali gave a wonderful online talk, both remembering EPT and reflecting on the politics of the present moment. Thanks to Mark Metcalf and Dave H you can now watch Tariq’s talk in full: m.youtube.com/watch?si=n7m5j…

28/1001 - Victory & Bovril : My quest to identify 1001 interesting photos I took before I died continues. This was 1968, I was probably chanting some anti-war slogan as I marched from Trafalgar Square to Grosvenor Square, but I still had my camera to hand to capture the occasion.

This July will be 20 years since the death of the great campaigning investigative journalist Paul Foot.

For the anniversary, Verso have two books out: the first, a brilliant intellectual biography by Margaret Renn, and a new edition of his incredible history of the vote!

It is a great privilege to be joined by Hope Nyabienda and Izzy Wood, two amazing teachers to demonstrate 'how to begin the process of #decolonisng case studies.' Friday 5 April 11:45am - do come along and share your thoughts and questions - learning together #GAConf24

📣 Members of the cabinet are 9x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

We conducted our analysis of the backgrounds of the cabinet towards the end of 2023.

It revealed that 63% of the cabinet went to private school 👇

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This will be well worth attending for any London-based #geographyteacher wanting to explore emerging ideas around urban geography and housing issues

TISH, the documentary about acclaimed social documentary photographer Tish Murtha Archive, will be broadcast on Monday, 01 April, at 9 pm on BBC Four in the UK and Ireland and then available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.

More info: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This is preliminary, but the facts speak for themselves.

Hundreds of thousands of members have voted.

Mass discontent remains within the profession.

Government should take notice and take urgent steps to tackle the crisis in education.

Conference meets shortly.

'students from poorer backgrounds may be hardest hit: they’re disproportionately likely either to go to post-92 institutions, or to choose the nearest university so they can save on rent by living at home. If it scraps the course they wanted, what then' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…