Pran Patel

29/04/2024

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.

Read the full article: The Myth of Raising Aspirations
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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...

04/03/2024

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

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13/01/2024

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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03/12/2023

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

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16/11/2023

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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#‘AndPolarisedThought

15/11/2023

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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14/11/2023

Is the term Racist

Read the full article: The Rise of Karens
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#‘WhiteWomenSTears

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...

14/11/2023

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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14/11/2023

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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12/11/2023

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

Read the full article: Israel AND Palestine
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#‘AndPolarisedThought

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 ...