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Andrew Webb, Sandra Becerra and Macarena Sepulveda explore the way staff become occupied *doing* new public management under an anti-bullying program in Chilean schools. Find out more: doi.org/10.1080/175084…

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If you've time this weekend please take part in our survey considering attitudes to secondary schools and the 11-plus. It only takes a few minutes and we'll be grateful for your help. 11plusanonymous.org/our-survey

Context: the UK’s institutions and British society are dominated by those who have attended fee-paying schools. For example, the new cabinet is 60%+ private school (vs 7% of population). Private schoolers remain significantly over-represented at Oxford and Cambridge themselves.

Thanks Amanda Heffernan for organising this morning’s Manchester/Monash mashup. So fascinating to hear of the contrasts and similarities regarding education in England and Australia

The opposite of paranoia is PRONOIA—the delusional belief that everyone around you is a friend and a supporter of what you do.

Delighted to be invited to deliver a keynote about my research at what will no doubt be an important conference on creative, critical, and decolonial research. See you there! 🤩 Please share Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity) UoM School of Social Sciences Manchester Sociology Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality Registration open 👇🏾

Here's a cheeky little sea shanty ⚓️🎶(an adaptation of #Wellerman ) about #SuellaBraverman - we were sad to see her go, because we had to make this much quicker than we anticipated...

Suella Braverman MP The Rest Is Politics #Tofu #Rwanda Nathan Evans Krishnan Guru-Murthy #EnoughIsEnough #wokerati

From the Ethnography Museum in Geneva: no fieldwork without theory! ✨ Prof Steve Courtney

Miriam Margoyles is currently both the first and last person to say 'fuck' on the BBC.

In just another day for a completely normal country, the Daily Star has riffed off The Economist and has started a live stream to see whether Liz Truss can outlast a piece of lettuce over ten days

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📢New paper alert! Stewart Riddle and Andrew Hickey argue that relationality has become a handy catch-all in educational policy discourses, while remaining a sliding signifier, free from a more productive affective potentiality. doi.org/10.1080/175084…

This is a profoundly important paper for school leaders, teachers, recruiters and academics everywhere. Girls' Schools Assoc Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) ASCL congrats Amanda Heffernan prof pat thomson 'Punk ideals, school leaders and fashioning an “authentic” self' journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JURSR2P…

Join MIE's Jeffrey Boakye for a The University of Manchester event aimed at primary and secondary educators, plus anyone interested in anti-racist teaching and curriculum development: Monday 7th November, 4:30pm to 6pm. UoM-JB-Nov22.eventbrite.co.uk AIU RACE Centre History Department SocialResponsibility University of Manchester - Faculty of Humanities