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 “THEM” Vs “US”
I reckon one of the greatest challenges facing Scottish education is the way in which people use the third person plural in a negative sense.
Listen to any conversation about education and very soon “they” will emerge as the problem. So teachers will talk about “them” (management), management will talk about “them” (teachers and the local authority) […]

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I’ve been thinking a great deal about Norman Kunc’s presentation on belonging within an inclusive culture.
One of his key assertions is that we often develop a sense of allegiance in the “void of belonging”.  His point was that by creating a common enemy we are provided with a sense of belonging to something. It’s this notion […]

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