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I came across a brilliant article by Sofie Bergland  who is with the University of York, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.  This article by Sofie looks at the discourse or the lack of it on race and racism in teacher training and education in Britain and Norway & its impact on students. Here's a link to the article- https://theteacherist.com/2019/11/21/antiracism-teacher-training/ It's been evident for quite a while now that our education system is long overdue for an overhaul - at least it has been to those who are under-represented and who seemingly don't exist in Britain's historical landscape. Britain just came to be, somehow, because she was entitled to vast riches that cascaded down from above or somewhere else... who knows...right? The lack of acknowledgement around Britain's colonial history and its implicit erasure of identities is at the heart of imparting education that is whitewashed. This is a monumental problem as it only encou

31st of January, 2018: Arian asked to read 'The boy who asked why', yesterday. It's one of his favourite books and he hadn't read it in a while. This story about the great Dr. Ambedkar, has been beautifully told and illustrated and his fight for equality in India raised a lot of questions in our household.                                     Dr. Ambedkar was from the lower caste known as 'Mahar' (Dalit) and were treated as 'untouchables'. They were and are still subject to massive socio-economic discrimination and are treated in a manner that is not only inhumane but defies logic.  This book narrates how the untouchables were treated and all the different obstacles that Dr. Ambedkar had to overcome. He wasn't allowed to sit with his classmates at school and he and his classmates from the lower caste had to sit on gunny sacks and were separated from the rest of their classmates. This was India's answer to segregation within its

7th and 8th of January, 2018 A very exciting question was posed yesterday. The little man wanted to know how electricity was made. This led to us looking into Michael Faraday's work and the Faraday suit on YouTube. We watched some great videos alongside Dick & Dom's 'absolute genius' about how electricity is made available to homes from the source, different sources of energy - renewable and non-renewable, role of transformers in reducing voltage and so on. Here's a link to this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyrNh4UXrWw&t=1087s Today, we watched some videos about atoms as the next question was, "What makes magnets produce electricity when moved through a wire?" This was a video that we found to be quite engaging and informative about atoms -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RMV5qhwyE The children talked a lot about the characters that there interested in and whether there were more male or female characters, whet