“As any practising teacher is aware, both initial teacher education and subsequent registration and appraisal processes require individuals to provide evidence of the ways they are operationalising biculturalism. This can be challenging for teachers because, despite the familiarity of the term, there is not a consensus about what biculturalism means, especially at the level of …
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Innovative Learning Environments
A few years prior to starting my teacher’s training I was working in two part-time jobs that were both growing. I convinced both of my managers that they needed me for longer hours and both offered me full-time contracts. The pay was quite similar but in the end I chose the job that had it’s …
Crying on the Job – Teaching as an Emotion & Caring Practice
Let’s face it, teaching is exhausting. And learning how to do it is tiring on so many levels. There have been times this year where I have wanted to throw in the towel. Staying up all night writing assignments or lesson plans, feeling anxious about being watched on practicum, stressing out about finances (because you …
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The Problem with Porn
In a recent lecture on Sexuality and Gender one of our own teaching cohort made what she thought was a valid point – that sex sells, and that she gets more tips at work when she hikes her skirt up and wears a push up bra. This surprised me, not only because I thought the …
Immigration and Refugee Education
” Our world today is riddled with anger and grievances linked to feelings of injustice and inequality. Whether perceived or real, economic, cultural or political, inequalities underpin many movements that use violence to achieve their aims. Education systems can fuel these grievances or reduce them. ” Novelli ( 2016) In his video above, Nish Kumar …
Teaching as a Knowledge Practice
Before I started my teacher’s training I would have probably lumped the term “knowledge” in with learning, as something acquired in the process of learning. But in our lecture regarding Future Focussed Learning, Jane Gilbert explained that on her 20 years of “thinking on, and speaking about, the subject” she has come to see knowledge …
Wild Fishing in a Sea of Provocations 