Carol Goodey

I was interviewed by @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the Herald this week - we discussed my new article with Dr Cal Horton on trans children's rights, what people need to know, and what can be done to support young people. We also touched on the wider issues facing trans-positive research!

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Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Now 54,380 signatures of women who stand with trans women.

Let’s keep this going!

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Scots scholar says anti-refugee rhetoric has led UK into “the foothills of genocide” POLITICAL rhetoric in Britain has taken the country into “the foothills of genocide”, according to Scotland’s leading scholar on issues…

'Integration depends on people "not fearing each other" but "understanding each other & becoming familiar with each other"...The best way to do that is "just hanging out together"'

@alisonphipps.bsky.social interviewed by @neilmackay.bsky.social in The Herald

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544581...

Oh great! That's really good to hear. Thanks for reading and passing it on. I'd be interested to hear about the work you're doing sometime

Thanks Nora! ☺️

Image shows screenshot of the first page of the article linked to in the post with the title, Claiming the status of speaking and thinking beings: using Rancière to encourage a perceptual shift around people, education and equality. The Abstract is as follows: Education is often seen as a solution to the many challenges we face as a society where people and the problems they experience, or cause, can be fixed by education. Equality, it is believed, can be achieved through education. The work of Jacques Rancière offers a different perspective. This article draws on data from a qualitative study of community activist learning to illustrate Rancière’s principle of equality. It considers how education may create and sustain inequality. Community activism provides a useful context to consider how, rather than being deferred, equality can be verified through people claiming the status of speaking and thinking beings. The aim is to encourage a shift in how people, education and equality are perceived. Since education reform after reform have had little impact on tackling inequality, it is argued that we need to see differently before we can do differently.

My new article in the open access journal, Scottish Educational Review.

‘Claiming the Status of Speaking and Thinking Beings’: Using Rancière to Encourage a Perceptual Shift around People, Education and Equality

brill.com/view/journal...

Congratulations Dr Scott! Well done!

Timeline cleanse

'Help us make it stop': Inside the rare Israeli-Palestinian protest in West Bank DOZENS of Israelis and Palestinians are fighting to end an “us vs them” mentality by coming together every week in a rare joint protest against…

“we’ve started to break that feeling of fear, just to come out & be together. Every week more people join, it’s growing and it gives a different image for both societies...this kind of space where we can come together and have dialogue or do joint initiatives"
www.thenational.scot/news/2542468...

10 positive stories from my 30 years of working with refugees IN the 30 years of working with refugees worldwide I’ve never once looked back. Whilst there are many things I’d love to change in the system I…

"where people in communities feel that the good work of welcome is mutual and is shared brings abundance of life, of ideas, of ways of cooking, and living and making and baking... It brings occasions for celebration and a way of making communities homes"

www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

Tomorrow's front page 📰

'Let us not be defined by the loudest voices of division'

A new way of thinking about empathy could cool Britain’s migration rows Accurately recognising how refugees actually feel is linked to reduced fear and greater willingness to help.

Accurately recognising how refugees actually feel is linked to reduced fear and greater willingness to help.

Atlas's fundraiser for Equality Network Help Atlas Martin raise money to support Equality Network

I’m doing the 20 mile Mighty Stride Kiltwalk in just over a week with some pals from Perth Parrots. We’re raising funds for the Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social

Donations hugely appreciated if you are comfortably able to contribute: justgiving.com/page/atlas-m...

🌟 Young people have taken over our magazine

They chose the content, conducted the interviews, guided Big Issue team on how they wanted the pages to look

Read more 👉 www.bigissue.com/opinion/yo...

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Join them and sign here:
tinyurl.com/ciswomen4tra...
They are “a collective of cisgender women from every corner of society - mothers, daughters, friends, sisters, partners, colleagues, caregivers, and leaders…”

“We want people to see our artwork and to see that Palestinians are human"

"We want people to know that as Palestinians, we are not helpless victims, we are talented people”

Europe's first museum of Palestinian art opens in Edinburgh

www.thenational.scot/news/2517081...

Amazing, Phil! What a great photo. Congratulations!!

YouTube video by ALTER NATIVAS Documental Documental - ALTER NATIVAS - Construyendo futuros posibles

'Alter Nativas — Building possible futures is a documentary about ecosocial transition initiatives and regenerative cultures. A collective project that aims to show transformative experiences and inspire other possible futures'
youtu.be/v_SIQjyqZ2U?...

Free event: reconstructing adult learning | WEA Join our special free webinar on Thursday 13 March from 4 pm-5.30 pm.

Still time to sign up for this Thursday's webinar exploring the current policy landscape for adult learning.
#lifelonglearning #adulteducation

4. In my experience, and with apologies to Feargal, a good heart is not at all hard to find. Though we've been instructed for years by neoliberals that most people are selfish and greedy, it is simply not true. Research shows that our dominant values are kindness, community, family, empathy etc

‘A piece of home I carry with me': What our mother tongues means to us Members of the Global Voices community discuss the beauty of and injustices faced by their native languages.

Members of the Global Voices community discuss the beauty of and injustices faced by their native languages.

The word "ungrading" is an active present participle. It doesn't mean "not grading." Ungrading acknowledges the existence of grades and invites systemic critique, an undoing or thoughtful dismantling. Not best practices, but fluid, contextual practices to push against an insidious culture of grades.

Yeah, it could be. I've no idea how it works but that makes sense. Enjoy! :)

There are Spiderman movies currently on BBC iPlayer if you're able to watch that...for about 25 more days

“The job of education in such circumstances is, as Raymond Williams memorably put it, “to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing”…Positive social change begins when we start to connect w/ others in deeper, more purposeful ways, fostering joint purpose & turning it into collective action”

This is brilliant and much-needed. Highly recommend reading this! #linguistics #academia

Cover of book Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization by Caroline Lenette. Plain background, title highlighted in orange. Research to the point Series.

Last week, couple of PhD candidates reminded me how useful they found my book on PAR, Participatory Action Research: Ethics & Decolonization. Thought I'd give it another plug here. Published in 2022. #QualitativeResearch #AntiColonialResearch
Code for 30% off: ASPROMP8
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right

The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...