Pran Patel

A young person’s marginalisation does not occur in a vacuum: they are marginalised by a system that relies on this to happen in order to maintain its survival.

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The Myth of Raising Aspirations - The Teacherist We need to talk about how we talk about young people. For a sector that is supposedly dedicated to improving young people’s chances in life, we use a lot of language that stereotypes, marginalises and ultimately disempowers young people. After many years of listening to this damaging discourse dis...

This requires locating its root causes, and dismantling the systems that routinely marginalise our young people.

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For a sector that is supposedly dedicated to improving young people’s chances in life, we use a lot of language that stereotypes, marginalises and ultimately disempowers young people.

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Charity funding is predicated on the promise to raise the aspirations of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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I do not believe it is our job as educators to pitch our political views with the aim to promote or recruit children.

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In total, 15 new Beacon Schools were announced in 2023, located right across the country, from Stirling to Kent, with three schools achieving Outstanding Beacon School Status.

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Is the term Racist

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The Rise of Karens - The Teacherist In episode two, Sarif and Pran invite Maire Cervenak from New Jersey (USA) to contribute on the ‘rise of ‘Karens”. We delve into questions like: What is a ‘Karen’? Is the term Racist? Sexist? Classist? What are ‘White Women’s Tears’? How does it relate to privilege, intersectionality...

We talked about the variety of experiences that my driver and I had faced in the last three months, police violence, overt racism, and surprisingly we made progress.

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The inevitable racist abuse is out in this morning, post England’s men’s footballs teams failure to win the European Championship.

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The second is that the world is generally tiered towards power resting with white, male, middle class, anglophone, cis, heater, etc

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Israel AND Palestine - The Teacherist I am astounded that we have to have this conversation over and over again. Every time we have a conflict flare up, there is a clueless response to children and their understanding. It’s too late to teach anything of value now. It is nigh on impossible to teach anything which isn’t propaganda or ...

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The Myth of Raising Aspirations
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The Myth of Raising Aspirations - The Teacherist We need to talk about how we talk about young people. For a sector that is supposedly dedicated to improving young people’s chances in life, we use a lot of language that stereotypes, marginalises and ultimately disempowers young people. After many years of listening to this damaging discourse dis...