I learned a lot from reading your interpretation of the blog resources, particularly your analysis of Garett’s article. Moreover, I agree with your critique of Orr’s investigation for the Telegraph. It showed a lack of understanding and bias from his part and highlighted the significance of positionality.

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Thank you for your meaningful comment.

I am happy to hear you liked my approach of starting my blog with the Cambridge Dictionary’s definition of racism. I felt it was important to contextualise my writing.

I understand why you feel conflicted as to how to approach confronting racism within your practice at CSM, but I don’t…Read more

Thanks for your considered comment. It made me reflect further on what I wrote, as well as what our blog group wrote in their respective posts.

I do feel quite strongly that the attainment gap between white and ethnic minority students is largely attributed to the lack of diversity in our teaching staff. I joined our PgCert…Read more

Thank you for reading my blog and writing a thought-provoking comment.

I love the alternative privilege walk you introduced our group to. Step into the Circle is a much more inclusive and effective approach to illustrating systemic racism. I wonder how many educators use it in their teaching practice.

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Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my blog post. I am glad to hear so many of the points I made resonated with you.

I think you are right in questioning if the positionality of the interviewer for the Telegraph film was intentional in order to create an ideologically argument against the Race Equality Charter. The film…Read more

Thank you for sending another pertinent news clipping via email related to my blog post and your comment. This context is essential to understanding the topics and themes we are exploring in Unit 2. I support your idea that Human Resources should develop a training program for navigating different student religions. It’s something…Read more

I enjoyed reading your blog post and resonated with a lot of what you wrote, in particular about the Telegraph film about Advance HE and the Channel 4 film about the school’s approach to the privilege walk.

I agree that the school’s treatment of the pupils was quite cruel and think that the alternative approaches of using fictional…Read more

Thank you for your kinds words about my blog and insightful comment.

You made me reflect on my positionality in the classroom and whether I could take a more active measure to mitigate conflict arising from religious differences than wait until such a scenario occurs. I would like to discuss faith with my manager, Judy Willcocks,…Read more

Thank you for your thought provoking comment. As an agnostic myself, I also struggle to determine whether I should be active or passive in discussions relating to religion at UAL. Perhaps, we should find out which other staff members are in our position and decide on a best way forward together.

Best,
Dayna

I found your blog post honest and thought-provoking. It was interesting to hear you came to the conclusion that faith and religion are unseen in the student community at UAL. According to the UAL EDI report 2022/2023, the number of students who identify as religious has steadily declined since 2019 and the dominant religion…Read more

It has made me reflect on what I should focus on for my intervention, which seems to be addressing information gaps I have about my students as a consequence of not teaching a regular cohort. I like your suggestion of creating a questionnaire that I distribute to my workshop group in…Read more

I agree with your point about UAL’s EDI report. In fact, I just learned that 50% of UAL’s students identify as neurodiverse, which is not surprising considering this goes hand-in-hand with creativity.

Best,
Dayna

I agree that communities for individuals with specific disabilities can go both ways in terms of being supportive and limiting, depending on the context. I watched an insightful documentary by Rose Ayling-Ellis while writing this blog, which helped me understand deafness better and the power of…Read more