Category: education
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Morons
The current module on my course talks of the importance of NVC – Non- Violent Communication when holding conversations with people of differing views. There are four stages to NVC communication: 1) Making observations 2) Describing feelings 3) Identifying needs 4) Making requests So for example, instead of projecting what you are feeling onto what…
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Empathy
So I have been completing a course with Berkely Greater Good Science Centre (Might as well make use of insomnia). In one module, I was asked to complete the empathy test below: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/embed/empathy The summary of my results included suggestions on how to be more empathetic. Rather than swimming in neurosis on whether the tips…
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Long live the people
In the trenches of blighty, the enforced mourning is exhausting. Across billboards and headlines we are told that we must feel deeply devastated about the death of an elderly women who lived a very long, comfortable and privileged life at the expense of the general public. For those of us in genpop who are generally…
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She’s a good sport
With the England women’s football team making headlines for winning the Euros there is much talk of how to nurture and encourage girls to play football. I was reminded of a recent poetry submission I wrote for a BHM television special celebrating black sports personalities. Part of the submission included answering if any sporting heroes…
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Playing the race card
In a recent interview the “Head of Britain’s ‘strictest school” claimed that black children were using the ‘race card’ when in trouble. The rhetoric is that of an aging, white, conservative male trying to dismiss the divisive legacy of the British empire but the words belong to a youngish “women of colour” (pictured above). I wonder…
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Why the Government needs PREVENT training.
Figures released today show that hate crime has risen in the last couple of years. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has undertaken PREVENT training recently. PREVENT is part of the Government’s counter terrorism initiatives which aims to prevent people from turning to terrorism. The hypocracy of the iniative however, is hard to…
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Was there ever a time before Scapegoat Britain? Part 1
At first it seemed ridiculous to believe that people would believe that all of England’s problems were the result of the EU and of course those “terrible immigrants”. We laughed about it in the staff room. The same staff room where for the past year, disgruntled colleagues have viciously blamed and attacked the Head…
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That time I almost burst into tears on the treadmill..
Music pumping in my ears, feet pounding away on the cross trainer, I gaze up from the flashing dashboard to the row of televisions hanging from the gym ceiling. Ivory poachers in Gabon, a posh gardener in a tight squeeze, the usual random something or nothing on London Live all bid to grab my attention with…
the brixton housewife 