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Claire Birkenshaw “Chopper was my first lesson in the vast difference between myth and reality” (Gordie Lachance, Stand by Me) In Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Erving Goffman (1963/1990) argues that stigma is not an inherent attribute of individuals but a social relationship through which particular characteristics become discrediting. As such, virtually anyone is susceptible to…
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Mandy Pierlejewski, Guy Roberts-Holmes, Sara Hawley and Jennifer Holly In October last year, a few short weeks into the new school term, colleagues from University College London and Leeds Beckett University visited reception classes in two schools in England. This class is the final year of early childhood education which, in England, takes place in…
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Claire Birkenshaw “Hey Cameron, do you realise if we’d played by the rules right now, we’d be in gym?” (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986) Scholars Hunter and Frawley (2022, p.14) argue that use of film as a ‘pedagogical tool’ can help students better understand abstract theoretical concepts to aid their application in imaginative ways. For…
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Claire Birkenshaw “Some have suggested a barrier is immoral. Then why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences, and gates around their homes? They don’t build walls because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside” (Donald Trump quoted in The Guardian, 2019, n.p.). Urban scholar, Leonie Sandercock,…
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Birkenshaw, C. (2024) Beckett Park: Climbing Frame [Photograph]. Leeds. © Claire Birkenshaw. Claire Birkenshaw “We [have built] playgrounds that are so monumentally boring that any self- respecting child will go and play somewhere else” (Gill, 2024, quoted in Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, 2024, p.7). Like the attending Levelling Up, Housing and Committee MPs,…
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Dr Mandy Pierlejewski In this blog post, I explore the idea that using generative AI to plan lessons is cheating. I compare artificial intelligence lesson planning with the use of government validated schemes such as Little Wandle, using Foucualt’s work on discipline to explore notions of lesson authorship. I suggest that the use of generative…
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Claire Birkenshaw “Well it ain’t written in the papers, but its written on the walls” (Matt Johnson, 1986). In the hands of the military, the stencil graphic is utilised as a means to communicate no-nonsense graphical edicts to direct, control, and corral compliance. When used by those with power, the stencil graphic facilitates a visual…
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Altered States of Academia 