Loneliness and Feminism 1 April 2021 Feminism is sustained by collective organising but one of the dominant emotions that has driven women to organise and to campaign for different gendered relations has often been a sense of loneliness. A gendered perspective on loneliness allows us to see at once how politicisation can ease and provide…
The Phenomenology of Social Distancing 25 March 2021 At the beginning of the pandemic, signs were installed that demarcated a two-metre-distance that people must observe from one another – leaving effectively two vacant spaces hovering on benches and on public transport – a ghostly presence that was both physically evident and affectively registered. Social distancing…
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General resources for teachers Ideas For Stress-Free Remote Learning from Engage Education Support For Teachers New To Remote Teaching (and for those who need a bit of a refresher!) from Engage Education Avoiding video conferencing fatigue while working remotely – via UCL School of Management The EA’s journal English: The Editors of English: The Journal of the English Association warmly welcome you…
General resources: education and the pandemic First News: a weekly national newspaper for children and young people ABitLit: a library of conversation between researchers, performers, creatives, and makers of all sorts, where we discuss what it means to think about history, culture, and creativity #AccessHEhour on Twitter: virtual coffee mornings / resources on higher education and COVID-19…
Secondary Education (children aged 11 – 16) You might find the Bookmarks series particularly useful. The Bookmark pamphlet series supplements the enthusiasm of teachers and provides additional resources for readers wanting to broaden their engagement with literature. All Bookmarks are available to download free of charge. Designed for teachers/remote teaching The Joe Orton Creative Writing competition, kindly funded by…
Primary Education (children aged 1 – 11) The English Association Primary resources page offers a variety of resources: Book reviews – be inspired by our reviews of books for children ages 0 to 11. There are hundreds of reviews to read, and we’re sure you’ll find something you like. Top 5 reads – collections of favourite children’s…
Just for fun Activities to enrich remote and home learning. Wordoku – Solve the Wordoku so that each box, and all horizontal and vertical lines, contain the letters to spell Education. The letters can appear in any order, apart from one diagonal line, which needs to correctly spell “education”. Penguin book cover generator: create your very own Penguin classics! The British…