June 2022 archive

Permanent exclusion in the words of the child

The majority of the children enter our centre having either been permanently excluded from primary school or have been moved because they are very close to that point. The children sometimes tell us about their experiences of exclusion but in the academic literature, the voice of permanently excluded pupils is not often heard. Ricky Murphy …

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Finding truth in the way things go wrong – A Hegelian motto

In the introduction to his book ‘Hegel and the wired brain’ Slavoj Zizek (2020 ) writes that if Georg Hegel had a motto, it would be something like ‘Find truth in the way that things go wrong!’. I find great comfort in that. In my attempt to be an academic practitioner, I aim to help people through …

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