Janet Gooodall
@janetifimust.bsky.social
Professor of Education. Parent/family engagement in learning is my research area. Dedicated to schooling and education that are just, equitable, available and lead to a better world. My views are mine, not my employer's.
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
In much more important things... The narrative would be so much better if it were, 'Those who are homeless will be housed' rather than 'getting the homeless off the streets'.
The right click button on my mouse does not work. It has taken far more time that it should have to find a replacement. Please can EVERYTHING just be one sort of connection?
Cute Cat Begging with Pleading Eyes
Alt: Cute Cat Begging with Pleading Eyes
static.klipy.com
I had expected much, much better of the Guardian in relation to Dr Arday. I've just cancelled my subscription and said why. I suspect it will have no effect but it was the right thing to do.
#ShowMeYourKnits WIP Wednesday Very slouchy hat - going to play yarn chicken before I cinch it closed...
Unpopular opinion: we need to stop hankering after 'what used to be' - how kids used to read/play/whatever - how schools used to be 'so much better'. The reality for young people is now - not then. We need to stop looking back and start thinking about now and the future.
Getting to the end of a book one has enjoyed is... sad. Particularly when there are no more by that author (yet).
Bugs Bunny Crying Scene
Alt: Bugs Bunny Crying Scene
static.klipy.com
There is no science called 'race science', 'race realism' or similar. The media would do well not to uncritically use these terms.
I defend the BBC when I can but why on earth is Reform's welfare nonsense considered the third-biggest story in the world? In the ENTIRE WORLD?
A fairer headline would be 'Reform UK proposes letting disabled people die'.
Shout-out to libraries. Where else can you just chill outside with a 4yo as you pretend to be magic fairies careening about a large grassy area, then pop indoors for air conditioning, coloring pages, and benches to read four books in a row that you then get to take home, no charge? Libraries rule.
#ShowMeYourKnits Stripes? I admit they are usually caused by the yarn rather than me, but there are a few... pattern info in alt
A quick note about following back... If most of your posts are in a language I (sadly) don't speak, I'm unlikely to follow you. This is *entirely* on me for being ill educated enough not to speak more languages - so this is just a sort of apology from someone who really should do better.
Dug from Up Says Sorry
Alt: Dug from Up Says Sorry
static.klipy.com
It pleases me that when I got out my notebook to write about the lack of merit in meritocracy, this is what I saw.well done, past me.
Ok, a thread. Education systems - schools, universities, preschools, the lot - act to reproduce the society in which they exist. Bourdiue said this and Bronfenbrenner showed how it works (not in that order). But that is reality - not destiny.
This. I'm making no comment on the case as I, and almost everyone else, have no knowledge of it. I do know a young man has died and am hugely saddened and shocked.
Runnymede Trust@runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 5d agoIn his own words, Jason asked “only for understanding, for compassion, and for the space to begin again.” He was denied this. There must be a reckoning with the media and academic actors that created and fuelled the specific racism that shaped the final years of his life.
I just got an emergency alert on my phone but it was in Welsh. Anyone else? Attempting to retrieve it...
Women & girls are most at risk from one group; straight men. The pure volume of Trans women vs straight men makes this an absolute truth. One's birth biological sex is not your gender. Stand up for equal rights for Trans people. If you don't, your minority group might be the bigots' next target. 5/5
I had also forgotten how much better life is for me when I change the background colour in Word. Life does not have to be black and white.
Madagascar Penguins: Now This Is More Like It
Alt: Madagascar Penguins: Now This Is More Like It
static.klipy.com
Oh, good. A new research rabbit hole. I.... may be some time.
Bunny Running
Alt: Bunny Running
static.klipy.com
New rule. When you mistype your own name three times on the same email, it's time for a break or to down tools for the day. Yes. (Reader, it took four tries and my name only has five letters)
Johnny Fiama's Sad Face - Muppetwiki
Alt: Johnny Fiama's Sad Face - Muppetwiki
static.klipy.com
Finished Object #ShowUsYourKnits Feather and Fan shawl, Aran weight acrylic, about 160 gm (6mm needles).
Perhaps apropos of some recent government ideas.. (from Dudly-Marling, 2015, pg 7) "Concomitant with deficit thinking is low-level, basic skills curricula aimed at remediating students’ deficiencies (Oakes, 2005). ...
'People shouldn't wear headphones' 'People shouldn't look at their phones at bus stops/restaurants, etc.' What is it with policing what people people do, if it's not causing a problem for anyone else? (And no, the fact that you 'don't like to see something' doesn't count).
"By portraying economically disadvantaged people and people of color as morally, intellectually, and spiritually inadequate, then teaching predominantly white, middle-class teachers how to fix them, Payne (2005) peddles a particularly oppressive form of classist paternalism..." Gorski 2008
The narrative of the 'undeserving poor', from Gorski's 2008 paper on the Culture of Poverty discourse - a thread, because word limits... starts on pg 314...