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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...class hegemony was derailed by the Stalinist model of socialism. Even though the systemic flaws and distortions had been serious, Walter grimly predicted huge losses in East Germany’s progressive social programmes now the Wall was down. As we walked around what was East Berlin Walter, then in his 83rd year, talked about the need for a radical rethink of socialist...
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...class and gender/sexuality issues is bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress. Education should teach those who are subordinated to become articulate and to liberate themselves.hooks’s writing, and CRT, build on the work of Paolo Freire, and his critical pedagogy approach. Freire’s thinking is aimed at ‘conscientisation’. He was teaching literacy to sugar cane workers...
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...class but that the school was a hierarchy and becoming a senior leader was about personal progress. These comments, particularly those associated with distributed leadership, can be seen to link to notions of a flexible, collaborative community. However, both videos talked about people having this space because they played a key role or were leading a pre-determined area...
Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
History & The Arts

Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed

...class that had been formed by the rapid industrialisation of sectors such as shipbuilding and steel since the mid-1800s. By the time the war started, arguably Glasgow had more skilled workers than any other British city. Built on imperial and colonial expansion, the city duly became one of the most important centres of weapons manufacturing for British forces. Across...
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...class and costshape digital participation. It is these institutionalised biases that we pick up and expand for analysis. Feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser critiques the white middle-class boundaries of Habermas’ definition. She describes second wave feminist activists’ aim to make private matters public in order to politicise them by pressuring policymakers into...
Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...class that has protected the needs of the top 1% instead of effectively dealing with climate change or inequality. And yet even as contemporary politics is becoming increasingly dominated by youth-driven social media and viral campaigning, the young people involved are embracing candidates old enough to be their grandfathers – and in Sanders’s case, one with a...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...classes, ethnicities, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, income brackets and genders. This means that a school’s capacity to foster the positive relationships that build a strong community depends on everyone’s commitment to, and skills in, building positive relationships with people who might have different life experiences and values. From this perspective, Peace...
Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...class. This is both a legacy of, and an enduring testament to, the hard-fought achievements of the civil rights movement. But the existence of a large and expanding black urban underclass attests to the disproportionate impact of globalisation during the past half century. Historically, the black American ghetto comprised the working poor and a small middle class....