Today we took our Young Leaders to the @ncmme.bsky.social for their training sesh. Shout out to Rob, our guide, who spoke about education through the pits, on the job training, identity (& much more).

Don't mind having a working weekend when you get to spend it at the @ncmme.bsky.social being part of the "History and Legacy of the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike Symposium" www.ncm.org.uk/whats-on/his...

i often see schools insisting that marginalised children speak ‘formally’ in ‘standard English’ because of ‘high expectations’. but this is just another example of schools having low expectations of what nondominant language styles can do and the linguistic innovativeness of marginalised children.

there is no empirical relationship between a teacher's accent and their ability to teach. but there is a long-standing ideological relationship which frames non-dominant and non-standardised accents as signs of imagined pedagogical illegitimacy.

So proud of the Young Leaders who smashed the research event at the @ncmme.bsky.social Shout out to @mikkmurray.bsky.social our Graffiti Artist who captured the lads' stories & John our former miner who led the coal workshops & supported each stage of the project ✊ www.instagram.com/p/DFQgdL1KYy...

There is still plenty of time to get yourself booked onto our event at the National Coal Mining Museum on Saturday... here's a sneak preview of the events for the day 👀

The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025 #ethnography #education #educationresearch

There is still plenty of time to book onto this event at the @ncmme.bsky.social. If you're interested in former coal mining communities, youth experiences, education, employment and/or community (or just fancy a day out at the NCM) get booked on now!

There's some serious thought going into Finn's next word...

I made a gingerbread panopticon

And it's done! 'Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-class Men' will be published by Policy Press in July, and is available for pre-order now at a very reasonable price of £9.99 #EduSky policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lost-boys

Someone got himself back on the nice list with a good report card from his dog walker 🐾🧑‍🎄🐾

Anyone that knows me knows how much I love Barnsley so it's been a pleasure to be at Barnsley College today delivering an Outreach session on the suite of Education degrees at @hudunipress.bsky.social (plus VIP parking...big thanks to BC for having us).

Right it's officially Christmas for us 🎄🐾🎄

The unsurpassed 'Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884–1921' by @collinstony.bsky.social is currently a steal at £18 from @haymarketbooks. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the left. #skystorians www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2405-r...

Mood. Cross-stitch embroidery by @wendyenthomas.bsky.social

I've broken into the Christmas cake (stress eating after a department meeting 🙃🙃)

I'm picking up a session on Climate Change and Climate Justice in the New Year with my Primary Education students, it's not my field so if any has any resources/papers etc please do hit me up 🤞🤞

Late one last night with the Young Leaders planning our event at the National Coal Mining Museum. Every time I meet them, their drive, vision, and spirit of inquiry, (and of course their wit cos they're from Barnsley) gives me hope and the will to keep going and keep researching ✊

No you're crying at the last episode of Doctors 😭 Right what do I fill my lunchtime void with now? Does this mean I find a programme that's an hour and actually take a proper lunch break?

Is it communism yet?

Come join us at the National Coal Mining Museum for our Youth led event 📢📢 The exhibition celebrates the power of youth voice through vibrant street art. It explores lads' experiences of education, employment, and opportunity in the former coalfields of Barnsley.

[New Book Review alert 🥳] 😀Review by Wolfgang Lehmann on 'Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class' authored by Jessica Abrahams, Bristol University Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-1447360285 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Someone enjoyed a snow day ❄️

Here is the link to the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making. Check out our programme of free webinars www.stir.ac.uk/about/facult...

"There are very low proportions of ethnic minority men and women in Art, Music and Drama, irrespective of their social class background. This is not the case for HE overall. Clearly creative HE subjects have an ethnicity, as much as a class, crisis." www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

Looking forward to getting into this paper from @amit-singh.bsky.social - plenty here for geographers as well as sociologists journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

over three years we worked closely with a group of English language high school teachers who were committed to anti-deficit practices for combatting language stigma and discrimination. this article documents their efforts and describes what became possible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had possibly my favourite ever recorded conversation about all things education, masculinity and inequality for the Student Outcomes Podcast. It was fantastic to be given space and time to explain just why the work of Boys' Impact is so important. open.spotify.com/episode/4YFK...

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

Socialist sing-along fundraiser this Saturday 16 NOVEMBER 7pm! Leeds Trades Council invite all to join the next of our legendary sing-along events at Holbeck Working Men's Club. Solidarity, camaraderie, and everyone gets a beautiful song book! www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Finn's settled into his group dog walks now (I feel like a proud mum 🐾)

My favourite time of the year... graduation time 🎓🎓

The Yorkshire Coalfields are now 'the capital of warehousing' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So is this the new Twitter (x)?