selomer42.bsky.social
Higher Education, international students, policy, critical pedagogy, decolonisation and much leftist ranting
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It's a flat rate for your local area that doesn't necessarily cover the actual amount the nursery charges
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We started with a presentation from our organizers @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social and @selomer42.bsky.social, who outlined their choice in the conference's theme of 'Finding Purpose' and why a greater sense of purpose is needed for research with international students www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc44...
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Wait until you look into what '20/30 free hours of childcare' actually means. Spoiler: not actually free.
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Oh yeah.
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Just a little is fine...
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Oh yeah I've said this too. Especially blueberries 🤣
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What are yours?
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Please don't put sprinkles up your nose.
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Are you singing Mama to the tune of a Katy Perry song?
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That's genuinely upsetting in a way I can't put my finger on
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A secret MI5 mission will be launched to save me but something worse will probably happen as a result somehow
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Most of my mentoring has been normative rather than proactive and focused on prioritizing tasks for career advancement. I'm trying to do more with ECR colleagues but there's few good models
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It IS all about social justice! Yes!
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I've been reading romance since I was about 12. It can have fairies, vampires, regency rakes with improbable muscles, I don't care. But it's the only genre that guarantees some joy
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I don't think that any of the authors are on here (yet) but they are Nyaradzai Changamire, Chrystal A. George Mwangi, and Jacqueline Mosselson.
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Yeah, I can't recommend this paper highly enough to anyone who doesn't quite get why we really need to think about race and international students.
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"students begin to understand a colonial noblesse oblige view of themselves from faculty, staff, peers, and administrators that obfuscate the need for services to help live a dignified life in the U.S"
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"Even the white administrator quoted above acknowledges, “it’s really remarkable how much they do for each other,” though he continues “but it’s really cultural how they all come together.” The racism!!
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"The students’ experienced campus programming as overwhelmingly inadequate and paternalistic."
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So the paper is about experiences of African grad students on a US campus in relation to internationalization policies and here's a few gems from the findings: "The offers of help impose and reinforce racial formations for the students"
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OK. I think it might be worth understanding their perspective.