About
I am a UK-based civil servant, primary-school teacher and trade unionist with a particular interest in critical pegdagogy, critical theory and computational sociology.
“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
So said radical educationalist Paulo Freire back in 1987, and it remains as true today as it was then. As a teacher, I believe it is our responsibility as agents of societal change to be politically engaged. Given the huge impact a teacher can have on both individuals and communities, and the highly politicised nature of the profession, to remain neutral is to actively support the status quo, and thus is a political act in and of itself.
I started this blog as a place to explore current issues in education and educational politics (with a primarily British focus) in a more coherent way than staff-room rants or clandestine union gatherings, and to hopefully shed some slightly seditious light on current issues. I hope to provide an insider’s insight into the world of education, and to deliberately and consciously do my Freirean duty of not being neutral.
All views expressed herein are my own.