Nika Maglaperidze 🇵🇸🍉

Innovation or education? Creating spaces for appearance in initial teacher education Education and innovation have always had a tension-filled relationship, with the latter historically associated with technological and economic novelties. It is small wonder that in these late capi...

Education & innovation have a tension-filled relationship. We argue for a distinction: imposed, market-orientated innovation vs emergent, relational, educational innovation. Via ITE experience, we show how ed innovation happens through generative tension & qualitatively differs from market models

Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuros...

New paper - "Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice" - led by @dimiktz.bsky.social w Martyn Pickersgill, Jess Pykett and me from our bio-edu-data-sci project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1080/0159...

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Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊

#Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality

Image of children wearing white clothes and black brain-reading headbands in a school classroom environment. From BrainCo marketing materials in 2017.

Who remembers BrainCo, the "brain-reading" startup out of Harvard that ran the creepiest marketing for its school-targeted neurotech headset about 8 years ago? It's now a major Chinese brain interface "dragon" - this is a pretty wild account of BrainCo's origins and evolution
hntrbrk.com/brainco/

Texas State fires professor accused of trying to incite political violence in video Thomas Alter is the second professor in the state to be terminated for allegedly violating university policy after a video was posted on social media.

A Texas State University history professor has been fired for speaking at a socialism conference.

He called for organization as a means to achieve a better future. Texas State says that’s inciting violence.

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

Fascist Street Preachers

Pedagogies of Repression Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the me...

Giroux on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education

Yes, I saw that. I have seen the image of the lobby many times. This is a school that has been popularised quite extensively.

& even if it's not a private school, this kind of establishments create other kinds of exclusionary policies that effectively privatise education. Bernstein talked about this through his invisible pedagogies favouring children who already possess the cultural code/capital to thrive in such contexts

Is this a private school? I might be wrong & I'd need to dig deeper to get a better idea about their pedagogical approaches, but normally private schools need a unique selling point to justify their existence. So, anything they claim needs to be taken with a healthy pinch of salt.

Whatever next? The Reichstag fire was just robust democratic debate?

Whatever next? The Reichstag fire was just robust democratic debate?

Lumpenproletariat.

Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested

Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested

We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

Nazism's most effective slayer is communism, not liberalism. But to be precise he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919, a small völkisch group that was already nationalist and antisemitic, not a genuine workers' organisation.

What kind of criticism are you expecting from these "educational scientists"? :)

Massive racist demonstrations in London today led to brawls and violence. ~100 arrested. Meanwhile, at peaceful Palestine Action protests with zero provocations, police arrested up to 900 demonstrators.

Don't forget this is the dude who equates National Socialism with Communism.

Matt, these are racists - don't beat around the bush on this. They not only hate people who immigrate into the UK but they hate foreigners and peoples of other races. The immigration debate is just cover for their real agenda: racial eliminationism.

I wasn't replying to you there, but I will try to reply nonetheless. Yes there's evidence it can slightly raise test scores in heavily controlled settings. The real question is this: is it 'helpful' to tell a teacher in an underfunded school that their students' struggle is just a mindset issue?

Helpful for whom and what?

Why does it matter?

What's crumbling isn't democracy but the liberal mythology that it was ever a democracy ;)

Museum of Pedagogy, Belgrade. @ecer-eera.bsky.social @uofgheadship.bsky.social @margery25.bsky.social

No, I think what's really troubling me with the whole "owning your learning" is the implicit message that every child needs to be solely responsible for the structural failures of the system meant to teach them. That's where the crux of the problem lies for me.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

Fair enough. Btw, the 'smarty-pants dad' label is the highest honour when it's awarded for pushing back on neuro-bollocks

*own their learning,* - What does that even mean?