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elliemakri.bsky.social
Trainee Educational Psychologist (University of Birmingham 2024-2027)
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💡 Thought-provoking ideas on how to talk about neurodiversity without relying on medical/deficit language - a model for us from Sonny Jane Wise in the form of the Neurodiversity Smorgasbord 🤩 How do you speak of difference? #EdPsychs #edusky

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‘When pupils feel like they belong, they want to stay…’ @sophietales.bsky.social and Dr Leanne Cort with a teacher and ed psych perspective on challenging decisions in school. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... Repost for your chance to win a copy of Sophie's book, 'Creating adversity-aware schools'.

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This inspirational story of an educational journey, that started at a PRU but ended with a DPhil from Oxford, is food for thought around closing doors, systemic injustice and second chances: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #edpsychs

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Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures, where she reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - among other things - childhood trauma. Relevant implications for EP practice #edpsychs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Calling all families impacted by parental imprisonment! I am recruiting children and young people to discuss their experiences of parental imprisonment as part of my doctoral thesis. Please see the attached poster for more information and feel free to share. #edpsych #parentalimprisonment #Edusky

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Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures. She reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - amongst other things - childhood trauma. Extremely relevant implications for EP practice. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

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“Why did the Hungry Caterpillar make a cocoon?” #EYFS child: “So no one bothers him.” “Sorry?” I ask. EYFS child: “He needs time to THINK himself INTO a butterfly.” “Wow!” I respond. EYFS child: “Well, he didn’t do it by magic.”

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Thank you for the music Bristol NOYO Ensemble (noyo.org.uk/the-orchestra/). Your joy and wonderful energy were contagious! A small example of the valuable and inspiring contributions young disabled people can make to our world.

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Just finished Katriona O’Sullivan’s #POOR. It is excellent! Its main strength lies in its ability to convey so vividly the reality of growing up in poverty. If every professional working with children knew the problem in such detail, one would hope that outcomes for the children would improve.

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I do find it interesting when 'evidence informed' meets evidence that doesn't fit with the narrative. There's loads of evidence that movement supports learning. Just because that doesn't match how some people think education should look doesn't make it untrue. 🤷‍♀️

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Great initiative @viola-jane.bsky.social and @edpsydan.bsky.social to move to a kinder, gentler space. Thank you.

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