New blog from Maria Balarin and me on the need for a greater focus on justice in education...

I support Palestine Action. I hate all forms of violence. I wish no harm on anyone. I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world. Apparently this makes me a terrorist. But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

As always, @rachelshabi.bsky.social is so good. This pointing the finger of antisemitism at every criticism of Israel is so damaging because there are people who should be allies who now will not hear it when we call out REAL antisemitism- to them it’s all a smear. & meanwhile Gazans are murdered.

A girl’s future shouldn’t depend on a budget line. The UK’s legacy on #GirlsEducation is at risk. Our Director Professor #PaulineRose, #MalalaYousafzai #RichardCurtis #AnnieLennox #MyleneKlass #KevinWatkins & others are calling on the PM to act. Read & share: bit.ly/4lgaYOP #GirlsDeserveEducation

Speak up for Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉 Ways you can speak up...

100 years ago today, Tony Benn was born. This is from 2009 when he defied the BBC’s ban on a humanitarian appeal for Palestine. For 77 years, Israel has killed & displaced Palestinians & the BBC continues to dehumanise them. Benn saw this injustice clearly & stood against it 🇵🇸

"The climate and ecological implications of this shift are as disastrous as they are deliberate. We need an appropriate name for this new era of fossil and tech bros accelerating attacks on democracy and the planet: cataclysm capitalism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

even as telling kills #KeepTellingofGaza

Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.

1/We analysed GP Patient Survey data from>750K people in England: Around 1 in 20 people had #LongCovid & nearly 1 in 10 were not sure if they have it. We did adjusted analysis by social & demographic attributes to find out who's more likely to have LC or is uncertain about it. Here's what we found🧵

I wrote this two months: why I cannot mourn Gaza. Because we all knew Israel was note done with the genocide. www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment

Our paper is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Interesting question from my MA teaching today: Is the 'transformative' in 'gender transformative education' the same as the 'transformative' in 'transformative climate/environmental education'? Thoughts? #education

Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank. PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.

An admirable and principled decision from someone who has long been a credit to the Labour Party. Defence spending must go up, but this is the wrong way to do it, and Anneliese is absolutely right to say so.

📢Our Call for Abstracts is now open!📢 Deadline 21 March. Lots of different presentation types & themes. Download the Abstract Writing Pack & sign up to join one of our Abstract Writing Drop-in Sessions 4, 5 or 6 March: www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Details of the 2025 @ukfiet.bsky.social conference are out with some brilliant sounding sub-themes and great people on the committee. Take a look #educationalresearch and #comparativeeducation folk: www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23 'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23 Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies

"Some people who have a very racist view of the world will not understand even the basic logic that if you care about human well-being you should care about all humans' well-being." Greta Thunberg, to me, on why she speaks out on Gaza, & not just the climate crisis.

#UNICEF is concerned about the number of children killed in #Gaza. More than 120 children have been killed in Gaza in the last two weeks. Nowhere does UNICEF mention WHO is killing the children in Gaza. It's Israel. Israel is killing the children of Gaza. 😔 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

All eyes on Gaza. The ceasefire agreement doesn’t begin for 72 hours and Israel is on a killing spree.

‘It’s about solidarity, not charity’: the Oxfam chief seeking to decolonise the aid sector

Mood today.... open.spotify.com/track/5qKLuu...

'We invite papers that carefully engage with the genocide in Gaza and other places experiencing war and genocide, and examine how we can learn through them to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures.' deadline for EoI 13/1/25. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

This is scholasticide, plain and simple. And I stand in disbelief every day that UK academia is broadly silent.

The way things that would have been major stories in the early days of the assault on Gaza have become background noise and ‘normal’ is part of the moral stain this has become on the world. Babies freezing to death? A mere bullet-point below another reporting journalists killed outside a hospital.

Don’t stop talking about #Palestine Stop the genocide. 96% of children feel death is imminent 49% of children wish to die because of the war Many more show signs of withdrawal and severe anxiety, alongside a pervasive sense of hopelessness. www.warchild.org.uk/news/war-chi...

Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025 Please repost - thanks! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Please encourage others to follow us here as Instagram has now restricted us from posting stories, viewing notifications or commenting on any other accounts.

I've been a bit quiet on here. Every member of my family has had flu in the past 10 days. I'm now hiding from the inevitability of being the last domino to fall...

Refuge are currently gathering donations to give a Christmas to the women and kids escaping domestic abuse in their shelters. For a limited time, there's donation matching. Details of that and how you can help, here: donate.refuge.org.uk/page/159909/...

I'm just starting this for #readpalestineweek. Has anyone else read it? Also interested in other Palestinian novel recommendations!

New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation" Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...

All the JustEd papers I've shared so far are Open Access as part of a Special Issue 'Limitations and Possibilities of Justice in Education and the Implications for Sustainable Futures. Read our editorial here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou... #educationalresearch

Paper 5 from JustEd focuses on the large-scale survey data across 🇵🇪, 🇳🇵 and 🇺🇬. Analysis demonstrates the importance of learners' experiences of (in)justices - in and out of school - for their positive actions towards peace and climate. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Paper 4 from JustEd focuses on the Peruvian data. Maria Balarin and Mafer Rodriguez conceptualise 'shallow pedagogies' as a way to understand how justice is(n't) embedded in secondary education: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Paper 3 from JustEd by me and wonderful Ugandan colleagues is on the different forms of violence secondary school students encounter through the strict enforcement of English only policies in Northern 🇺🇬. #languageresearch #educationalresearch bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Paper 2 from JustEd focuses on the findings from 🇳🇵 and the disconnections between policy, teacher training, practice and children's lived experiences in teaching justice-related topics, especially in #environmentaleducation #educationresearch bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Paper 1 from JustEd by me and the brilliant Maria Balarin who led the 🇵🇪 part of the project. We argue that a focus on an 'epistemic core' can support secondary education's contribution to sustainable and just futures. #educationalresearch bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step.

Please sign and share this petition: chng.it/rzYJvWntdR

JustEd was a research project that explored environmental, epistemic and transitional justice in secondary education in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. I'm going to share a paper daily. To start with: a video with a good overview of key findings. #comparativeeducation #climateeducation vimeo.com/872526418