Just learned that ‘Human Rights & Schooling’ is selected by National Academy of Sciences Republic of #Korea as an Excellent Academic Book
I’m greatly honoured by this prestigious award
Warm thanks to translators Drs Sunun Park & Jihye Park for their work and commitment to #HumanRightsEducation

It’s a special week when you get to celebrate the lifetime achievements of someone you deeply respect. Warm thanks to @dmu.ac.uk VC & EDI team for hosting 80th birthday celebration for Prof Gus John, recognising 60 years’ leadership for human rights, & educational, social & racial justice in the UK

Today, came across enormous webs on what appeared to be dead tree in University of #Leicester #BotanicalGardens
Webbing is protecting many thousands of caterpillars from birds
Caterpillars eat the leaves but don’t harm the tree long-term
😧Spooky effect- just like Halloween

Look forward to #SlavesoftheEmpire @ukasianfilmfest.bsky.social Phoenix #Leicester tomorrow 9 May
Wonder how stories of those enslaved by colonial era #Dutch in Kerala in compare with that of three times great grandfather enslaved by #British #EastIndiaCompany in #Madras late 18th century

🙏🏼Thanks @ukasianfilmfest.bsky.social & #Phoenix Arts #Leicester for #WeAreFaheemAndKarun
🙏🏼Congratulations director Onir for tender love story of Kashmiri man & Indian soldier set against border tensions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎉great Q&A
🎉Check out #UKAF 📽️ @ Phoenix this weekend
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Sunday morning, bluebells at #Rutland Water

Here are the Global Quest for Educational Equity team

I plan to drop by! I hear you will be bringing ‘Nordic Perspectives on #HumanRights Education’ with you to #AERA2025
There has never been a time when #HRE was needed more, as we observe the growth of authoritarianism & intolerance globally
We really love the cover @beategold.bsky.social

⭐️Warm thanks @universityofleeds.bsky.social Literary Leicester festival & director Dr Harry Whitehead for inviting me
⭐️Thanks too Melanie Abrahams, Laura Besley & wonderful student volunteers for the friendly atmosphere in which to discuss our shared colonial past & present
I enjoyed myself!

⭐️Literary #Leicester 2025 off to a great start today with Caroline Lucas & Kit de Waal
⭐️Do join me & Melanie Abrahams tomorrow Thursday 20 at Attenborough Arts to discuss ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’
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Interested to hear about Lit in Colour from Zaahida Nabagereka @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social initiative with other publishers to support teachers to teach diverse texts
Hoping- as an author this might soon extend to non fiction 🙂

On my way to Westminster this morning to chair launch of @neunion.bsky.social Thinking Beyond the Box - a response to National Curriculum Review

Troubled to learn England the only UK country without antiracist curriculum guidelines

Teachers need support to develop culturally responsive pedagogy

💚Do see ‘Staying Mum’ Kosai #SEKINE’s brilliant film about family relationships, truth, memory, now in #JapanFoundation film festival across UK
💚Wonderful to hear director Kosai #SEKINE speak @ #Phoenix #Leicester
💚Wonderful sensitive actors
Anne #WATANABE Eiji #OKUDA child actor Toma NAKASU & cast

Signs of Spring in #UniversityofLeicester botanical garden today
The best was the sound of #birdsong

pile of blue paperback books: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

Is this real? Knock Airport 💚

Bank holiday Monday in Bundoran, Co Donegal and I am told I am blessed to have the beach and promenade to myself!

Wonderful bank holiday weekend in Bundoran, Co Donegal at Women’s Festival of #Arts and #Literature
Happy to meet with creative people from across #Ireland
And discuss our work with colleagues from the US

Happy to come across this review @acitizenshipt.bsky.social journal by teacher Terri Barry
Excited to see how she might use my book in the classroom