Education to challenge abuse

Despite a growing authoritarianism, 45 years of neoliberal individualism and the corresponding break-up of organised workers’ movement, a wave of rebellion is sweeping the planet. Parts of it are even reaching Britain and showing in the oddest of places. Recent weeks have seen private school students as the latest rebellious subjects coming out to challenge the established order.

Highgate students protest against assault and abuse

Claudia Jones, the Commonwealth and the Immigration Act of 1962

Reading Claudia Jones’s broadside against 1962’s Commonwealth Immigration Act as reproduced in the latest Race & Class, a few things struck me. This first immigration act, passed by a Tory government in the year following Jones’s opinion piece in the West Indian Gazette, significantly changed British views on immigration. The targets she rages against should make us reflect on some of the assumptions we have so naturalised that we no longer recognise them as assumptions at all.

Teaching with UK hip hop

The burgeoning new movement UK #Hiphoped just done a twitter chat talking about the best UK hip hop tracks to use in education. Unfortunately, I was out that evening and missed the chat. Here, to make up for being too late on the twitter thing, is my contribution. A few different ways to use UK hip hop tunes in education.