(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It is almost a tautology to describe the Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (henceforth, SEND) system in England as in crisis. For many SEND Coordinators (SENDCos), waiting for the Labour government’s…
(Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have become who we are. Our curiosity and…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. *** The ‘body politic’ is an ancient metaphor by which nations, societies, and public institutions are envisioned through a performative body which fuels ‘ableism’. Whereas phenomenology examines the…