It's the Easter break, and we've come to our beloved studio B2.16, plagued as it is with the noise of building work and passing students, with a pile of thought-provoking material from books, podcasts and the news.
How can we reduce inequities for pupils in poverty? How do we effectively challenge deficit perspectives in student teachers? What's going on with pupil behaviour policies which insist on 'standard English'? Why did that man just give me a bunch of flowers and run away?
All of these questions, and more, will be chewed over and flogged half to death in an episode that includes some upsetting content and strong language.
You can find the content that inspired us here:
Enser, Z. and Enser, M (2020) Fiorella and Mayer's Generative Learning in Action. Woodbridge: John Catt.
'More darts and laurels' - Transom.org (Sound School podcast)
John Humphrys - Radio Moments: Conversations
Thompson, I (2017) Tackling social disadvantage through teacher education. St Albans: Critical Publishing.
Cushing, I. (2021), 'Language, discipline and "teaching like a champion"'. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), pp.23-41.
Quigley, A (2018), Closing the Vocabulary Gap. Abingdon: Routledge
‘They filmed me without my consent’: the ugly side of #kindness videos - The Guardian
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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 27th February 2023