Lee Jerome

@citizenlj.bsky.social

Professor of Citizenship & Children’s Rights Education at Middlesex University. Editor of Education, Citizenship & Social Justice. Founder of the Education for Democracy network. https://education-for-democracy.org/

We look forward to welcoming @suzanneegan.bsky.social Sutherland School of Law at UCD, Ireland to our next webinar Addressing Human Rights Education’s Curriculum Problem 📅10 November 16.30-17.30 (London), 17.30-18.30 (CET) Free, advance registration required global-iahre.org/webinar-seri...

Webinar Series

2026 HRER webinars series 2 We are delighted to announce the programme for series 2, autumn 2026 All past webinars can be viewed on our Human Rights Education Review YouTube channel. To be sure to …

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I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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If you teach about policy in education or early childhood studies this book will help your students start to critique policy and think about their own agency as policy actors. Better grades AND better practice… we’re hoping to help. OUT SOON policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/analysing-ed...

Analysing Education and Childhood Policy

Analysing Education and Childhood Policy - A Toolkit for Critical Thinking; Demystifying what education and childhood policy is, how it works and how it can be critically interrogated, this textbook s...

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The distinction between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing. We typically worry about "bot farms" or "troll factories." But a distinct, more complex threat is emerging. We call it "Cyborg Propaganda."

The Matrix of Coordinated Influence. Traditional frameworks for analyzing online influence focus on the distinction between human and automated actors (Identity Axis) or between spontaneous and coordinated behavior (Articulation Axis). Bot Nets (top-left) rely on synthetic identities and automated scripts. Troll Farms (bottom-left) use human operators to manage fake personas. Grassroots Action (bottom-right) involves verified citizens sharing self-authored views. Cyborg Propaganda (top-right) represents a new paradigm: verified human users disseminating centrally generated, algorithmically generated narratives, effectively ‘hybridizing’ the authenticity of the grassroots with the scale of the botnet.

📮Votes at 16: As the UK moves towards a lower voting age, young people want and need Citizenship education – and specialist teachers – to prepare them for the future. @citizenshippgceioe.bsky.social Hans Svennevig writes on the IOE blog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/12/...

Votes at 16: the role of Citizenship education

Votes at 16, a manifesto commitment of the current Labour government, brings in an increase in voter franchise in England...(read more)

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Great to see the curriculum review recommending citizenship in primary and secondary, a focus on young people’s demands - finance, digital and media literacy, climate, equality, and preparing for votes at 16. And all wrapped up in an oracy framework. Exciting times ahead.