Closing The Gap - Professional Reading Recommendations by Dr Adam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w en-us 2020-04-27 21:05:05 UTC 2023-10-20 17:49:02 UTC hello@padlet.com "The Weight of the World" by Pierre Bourdieu cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534733087 2020-04-27 21:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534733087 "The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog" by Bruce D Perry cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534736072 “The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”]]> 2020-04-27 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534736072 "Born for Love" by Bruce D Perry cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534738193 “Empathy underlies virtually everything that makes society work—like trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity. Failure to empathize is a key part of most social problems—crime, violence, war, racism, child abuse, and inequity, to name just a few.”]]> 2020-04-27 21:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534738193 "Closing The Vocabulary Gap" by Alex Quigley cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534741251 2020-04-27 21:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534741251 SPEECH by Martha Nussbaum "Not For Profit: Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship" cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534745539 Three capacities, above all, are essential to the survival and progress of democracy in today’s complicated world...]]> 2020-04-27 21:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534745539 "Cultivating Humanity" by Martha Nussbaum cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534746929 How can higher education create a community of critical thinkers that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nationality?]]> 2020-04-27 21:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534746929 "Making Kids Cleverer: a manifesto for closing the advantage gap" by David Didau cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534747861 2020-04-27 21:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534747861 "The Education Debate" by Stephen Ball cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534748360 Education policy, key educational debates and themes.]]> 2020-04-27 21:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534748360 "Creating Capabilities" by Martha Nussbaum cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534748921 If a country's GDP increases each year but so does the percentage of people deprived of basic education, health care & other opportunities, is that country really making progress?]]> 2020-04-27 21:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534748921 "Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes" by Diane Reay cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534749408 2020-04-27 21:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534749408 ‘New class inequalities in education: why education policy may be looking in the wrong place! Education policy, civil society and social class’ by Ball, S. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534766493 ARTICLE]]> 2020-04-27 21:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534766493 "Reproduction in education, society and culture" by Pierre Bourdieu & Jean-Claude Passeron cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534767442 2020-04-27 21:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534767442 ‘Off the Model’: resistant spaces, school disaffection and ‘aspiration’ in a former coal-mining community’ by Bright, G. (2011) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534770462 ARTICLE]]> 2020-04-27 21:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534770462 ‘Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour?’ BY Goodman, A. and Gregg, P. (2010) (eds.) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534771926 ARTICLE]]> 2020-04-27 21:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534771926 ‘Unlearning deficit ideology and the scornful gaze: thoughts on authenticating the class discourse in education' by Gorski, P. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534772991 ARTICLE

]]> 2020-04-27 21:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534772991 ‘Closing the attainment gap – a realistic proposition or an elusive pipe-dream?’ by Mowat, J. (2018) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534776367 ARTICLE]]> 2020-04-27 21:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534776367 ‘What would a socially just education system look like?’ by Diane Reay cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534777302 ARTICLE]]> 2020-04-27 21:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534777302 "Inequality Re-Examined" Amartya Sen cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534778321 "...if some children in a nation have educational opportunities unequal to those of other children...this seems to raise an issue of basic fairness.2 (p. 41)]]> 2020-04-27 21:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534778321 "Disadvantage" by J. Wolff & A. De Shalitt cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534779999 2020-04-27 21:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/534779999 "The Precariat" by Guy Standing cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538567009 "...an incisive account of how precariousness is becoming the new normality"

]]> 2020-04-29 09:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538567009 "Utopia for Realists" by Rutger Bregman cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538573943 "Which knowledge and skills do we want our children to have in 2020?" (p. 171)]]> 2020-04-29 09:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538573943 "Born to Fail?" by Sonia Blanford cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538579837 2020-04-29 09:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538579837 "Pedagogy of The Oppressed" by Paulo Freire cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538583905 "Thinking critically about practice, today's or yesterday's, makes possible the improvement of tomorrow's practice." (1998:44)]]> 2020-04-29 09:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538583905 "What About Me?" by Louise Michelle Bomber cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538659889 "...we need to facilitate real relationships between both adults and pupils" (p. 275)]]> 2020-04-29 09:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/538659889 The Education Endowment Foundation WEBSITE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554217466  EEF is an independent charity established in 2011 to improve the educational attainment of the least affluent pupils. It provides evidence-based resources designed to improve practice and boost learning.]]> 2020-05-06 09:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554217466 The Sutton Trust WEBSITE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554352158 Since 1997 the Sutton Trust has been fighting for social mobility from birth to the workplace so that every young person – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or where they live – has the chance to succeed in life.

]]> 2020-05-06 10:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554352158 The Joseph Rowntree Foundation WEBSITE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554378461 An independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. Through research, policy, collaboration and practical solutions, JRF aims to inspire action and change that will create a prosperous UK without poverty.]]> 2020-05-06 10:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/554378461 "Becoming a teacher: issues in secondary teaching", J. Dillon and M. Maguire (eds.) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563245036 2020-05-10 19:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563245036 "Work, consumerism and the new poor" by Bauman, Z. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563248002 The higher people rank in the social hierarchy, the more choices they and their children have. ]]> 2020-05-10 19:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563248002 "Adaptation, poverty and development: the dynamics of subjective well-being" by Clark, D.A (ed.) (2012) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563250704 2020-05-10 19:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563250704 "Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563255561 Freire's concern for social justice and education remains as as inspiring as ever.]]> 2020-05-10 19:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563255561 ‘Meritocracy: broken Britain’s system of social mobility' by Kingsley, J. (2012) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563257679 ARTICLE  


]]> 2020-05-10 19:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563257679 "Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities" by Martha Nussbaum cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563259523 Nussbaum argues that we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world.]]> 2020-05-10 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563259523 "The socially just school: making space for youth to speak back" by Smyth, J., Down, B. and McInerney, P. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563263078 Are schools "manifestly unfair places with the rewards of education allocated primarily on the basis of class, gender and race"?]]> 2020-05-10 19:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563263078 "The evolution of deficit thinking", Valencia, R. (ed.) cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563264353 Obsession with exam results: "a modern form of educational oppression, driven by deficit thinking’"(Valencia, 1997: 5). ]]> 2020-05-10 19:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563264353 ‘Deconstructing ‘aspiration’: UK policy debates and European policy trends’ by from Spohrer, K. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563395960 ARTICLE]]> 2020-05-10 20:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563395960 Child Poverty Action Group WEBSITE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563402401 Founded in 1965, the CPAG uses understanding of what causes poverty to campaign for policies that will prevent and solve it.]]> 2020-05-10 20:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563402401 ‘Closing the attainment gap in education’ by Sosu, E. and Ellis, S. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563407862 ARTICLE]]> 2020-05-10 20:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563407862 ‘The influence of parents, places and poverty on educational attitudes and aspirations’ by St Claire, R., Kintrea, K. and Houston, M. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563409687 ARTICLE]]> 2020-05-10 20:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563409687 ‘The power of circumstances: a new approach to measuring education inequality’ by Watkins, K. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563411932 ARTICLE]]> 2020-05-10 20:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/563411932 Teaching & Learning Research Summaries cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/579812470 2020-05-18 12:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/579812470 "The Confident Teacher" by Alex Quigley cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584423583 As I’m a firm believer in teacher confidence and agency as a driver, I’ve selected this book - The Confident Teacher: Developing Successful Habits of Mind, Body and Pedagogy by Alex Quigley - Chapter 13 on Modelling and Metacognition (Lee Dunn, Education Scotland)]]> 2020-05-20 09:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584423583 "Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive" by Morag Treanor cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584431425 This would be my recommendation. I’ve had the pleasure of listening to one of Morag’s keynotes and she is a very inspiring lady.(Stephanie Peat, Education Scotland)]]> 2020-05-20 09:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584431425 "The Pupil Premium" by Marc Rowland cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584444027 There are so many worth sharing! This explores challenges common to us all, focusing on autonomy, intelligent accountability re what works best and impact on the needs of individual learners. (Lindsey Duncan , FVWL RIC)]]> 2020-05-20 09:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/584444027 "Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Reading Identities in the Primary School" by Lexie Scherer cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/609003220 (Recommended by Pauline Bird, WL)]]> 2020-06-03 14:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/609003220 "How Young People's Participation in School Supports Achievement & Attainment" cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/617701918  "...schools can and should robustly and confidently integrate rights-based practice across the curriculum and the life of the school as part of a raising attainment and achievement agenda." 
(Recommended by Yvonne McBlain, Education Support Officer, Falkirk)]]> 2020-06-08 21:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/617701918 "Closing the Reading Gap" by Alex Quigley cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/617713355 2020-06-08 21:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/617713355 The Education Endowment Foundation WEBSITE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/1713695062  EEF is an independent charity established in 2011 to improve the educational attainment of the least affluent pupils. It provides evidence-based resources designed to improve practice and boost learning.]]> 2021-09-02 21:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/7g0tsk32lu9pjx6w/wish/1713695062