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PSHE Curriculums: Teaching students about the wider world
Acknowledging that teachers are well positioned to assess their students needs does not have to equate to the lack of resources and training that currently marks PSHE facilitation in the UK. The deregulation of PSHE does not only affect access to learning opportunities, but also the right of different marginalized groups to have their lived experience recognized in the classroom.
A Person-first Approach to the ‘Transgender Debate:’ Why Our Education System Can Go Further
Teaching students about trans identity not only validates the experience of any gender non-conforming students, it has the chance to provoke deeper conversations about biology, introduce different cultural approaches to gender in history and promote genuine social inclusion.
productive discomfort
Some discomfort is always necessary in order to be able to adapt and grow. Discussing complicated and often upsetting topics can provoke a range of reactions - whether it’s remembering experiences you’ve had, realising your part in someone else’s mistreatment or recognising your friend’s complicity in something.
The Null curriculum
‘Ignorance is not simply a neutral void.’ By excluding certain topics from the curriculum, we uphold ignorance around them and signal that they are unworthy of attention.
teaching ‘reality’
We cannot educate in a neutral way, because when students leave their classroom they are not entering a neutral world. Refusing to acknowledge that education is not a neutral enterprise is a mistake that has resulted in women being under-represented in STEM, Black students being under-represented in Russel Group universities and LGBTQ+ people practicing unsafe sex well into their adult lives.