Videre Alia
@viderealia.bsky.social
Interested in alternative perspectives on education & the ownership of education e.g re-imagining educational institutions with neurodiversity-friendly, de-schooled & unschooling approaches.
Currently teach FE/HE in UK, but have taught KS 1 -4 in the past
Currently teach FE/HE in UK, but have taught KS 1 -4 in the past
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New from @kieranrose.bsky.social
There is no such thing as SEND
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There is no such thing as SEND
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There is no such thing as SEND - The Autistic Advocate
In this article Kieran Rose looks at why there is no such thing as SEND in UK Education and addresses the harm casued by SEND narratives.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
New from @kieranrose.bsky.social
There is no such thing as SEND
theautisticadvocate.com/there-is-no-...
There is no such thing as SEND
theautisticadvocate.com/there-is-no-...
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Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering they're autistic or otherwise neurodivergent?
I have an explanation...
I have an explanation...
October 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering they're autistic or otherwise neurodivergent?
I have an explanation...
I have an explanation...
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If GCSE examiners “can’t recognise legitimate but less common approaches, pupils are disadvantaged precisely for engaging with their subjects at a deeper/more authentic level … success depends less on mastery of knowledge than on 2nd-guessing what examiners know/expect”
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#autism
#monotropism
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#autism
#monotropism
Do GCSE and A-level examiners penalise pupils for nuance? Textbook simplifications get rewarded; deeper, accurate perspectives may not. Do exams credit authenticity or punish it? #teaching #exams #sociology #edu #uked #education #edusky
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The dangers of over-teaching content for exams: Some thoughts
The following reflections are intended as exploratory questions rather than definitive assertions. I am not implying any impropriety on the part of awarding bodies (‘exam boards’) or in…
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September 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If GCSE examiners “can’t recognise legitimate but less common approaches, pupils are disadvantaged precisely for engaging with their subjects at a deeper/more authentic level … success depends less on mastery of knowledge than on 2nd-guessing what examiners know/expect”
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#autism
#monotropism
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#autism
#monotropism
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It strikes me that the difference between what people call 'traditional' and 'progressive' views of education is in where we think learning is situated. Is it about individuals with agency or is it about efficiency in terms of external goals? Do we get to explore or do we just get told? 🤷♀️ #EduSky
July 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It strikes me that the difference between what people call 'traditional' and 'progressive' views of education is in where we think learning is situated. Is it about individuals with agency or is it about efficiency in terms of external goals? Do we get to explore or do we just get told? 🤷♀️ #EduSky
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When the education system demands things that aren't developmentally appropriate, you end up creating issues not solving them. Young children are not meant to be static for long periods of time. If we insist they are, we create 'behaviour problems' that are actually just children behaving normally.
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When the education system demands things that aren't developmentally appropriate, you end up creating issues not solving them. Young children are not meant to be static for long periods of time. If we insist they are, we create 'behaviour problems' that are actually just children behaving normally.
[3 of 3] Passing GCSE Maths may be a badge of honour to those successful initiates, but is the opposite to those who haven't passed. "Failing" creates an army of people who give up on the numeracy they need for everyday life, because they have been officially labelled as people who "can't do maths"!
June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
[3 of 3] Passing GCSE Maths may be a badge of honour to those successful initiates, but is the opposite to those who haven't passed. "Failing" creates an army of people who give up on the numeracy they need for everyday life, because they have been officially labelled as people who "can't do maths"!
[2 of 3/] Exams such as GCSEs have become so divorced from any real world situation, even high pressure ones, where a learner would need to apply their skills and knowledge. Exams have become an alienating ritual, a vestigial and hollow symbol of the passage from schooling to the workplace.
June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
[2 of 3/] Exams such as GCSEs have become so divorced from any real world situation, even high pressure ones, where a learner would need to apply their skills and knowledge. Exams have become an alienating ritual, a vestigial and hollow symbol of the passage from schooling to the workplace.
Exams [1 of 3] I was asked to help invigilate some Maths GCSEs this year. It's 13 years since I was a school exams officer & tightening of exams regs & the increased cruciality of exams now makes me wonder if the exam experience can really be a meaningful assessment of someone’s knowledge and skills
June 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Exams [1 of 3] I was asked to help invigilate some Maths GCSEs this year. It's 13 years since I was a school exams officer & tightening of exams regs & the increased cruciality of exams now makes me wonder if the exam experience can really be a meaningful assessment of someone’s knowledge and skills
Learning is part of who you are, extending your mind and relationship with the world. If that learning is not done for yourself, but because it's what others have told you is needed, the learning which you should naturally "own" as part of your being is being appropriated from you.
Is your teenager coming out of school and not sure what to do? Here's the advice of a home educated 17-year-old.
"It can be hard if you've just come out of school to know what you're interested in, because you might think “All school stuff is boring. I'm not interested in any of that”. /1
"It can be hard if you've just come out of school to know what you're interested in, because you might think “All school stuff is boring. I'm not interested in any of that”. /1
April 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Learning is part of who you are, extending your mind and relationship with the world. If that learning is not done for yourself, but because it's what others have told you is needed, the learning which you should naturally "own" as part of your being is being appropriated from you.
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New Article!
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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #EHCP #EHCPsupport #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #EHCP #EHCPsupport #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
New UK Government Education Hub Now Overtly Discriminates Against Neurodivergent Children - Emergent Divergence
On March 12th, 2025 the Department for Education launched it's new Education Hub. It is immediately clear from the accompanying social media posts that this new endeavour seeks to enact overt oppressive...
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March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There's a source of sensory overload I call "word pollution", I e. where writing is placed in the environment unnecessarily, e.g. on walls, on T shirts etc. For me, words have semantic value. Yet for much of the neurotypical world words can be background wallpaper merely contributing to a vibe.
March 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
There's a source of sensory overload I call "word pollution", I e. where writing is placed in the environment unnecessarily, e.g. on walls, on T shirts etc. For me, words have semantic value. Yet for much of the neurotypical world words can be background wallpaper merely contributing to a vibe.
AI, in it's current LLM form is draws on work that has already been created (by people). It is therefore very good at doing the kind of work (for free) that we have traditionally prepared learners for - following instructions & be malleable to the working methods of the workplace. Should we adapt?
March 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
AI, in it's current LLM form is draws on work that has already been created (by people). It is therefore very good at doing the kind of work (for free) that we have traditionally prepared learners for - following instructions & be malleable to the working methods of the workplace. Should we adapt?
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“Recognise and change distressing school environments instead of punishing students for attendance and struggles with meeting neurotypical expectations”
Excellent insights, detail and signposting from Helen, as usual 👏👏🌟🌟
autisticrealms.com/challenges-f...
Excellent insights, detail and signposting from Helen, as usual 👏👏🌟🌟
autisticrealms.com/challenges-f...
Challenges for Autistic & Neurodivergent Families Navigating the SEND System: We Need to Understand the Double Empathy Problem & Embrace Monotropism | Autistic Realms
(Blog based on a presentation I delivered to London Met University 14th March 2025) Introduction The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) syste ...
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March 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
“Recognise and change distressing school environments instead of punishing students for attendance and struggles with meeting neurotypical expectations”
Excellent insights, detail and signposting from Helen, as usual 👏👏🌟🌟
autisticrealms.com/challenges-f...
Excellent insights, detail and signposting from Helen, as usual 👏👏🌟🌟
autisticrealms.com/challenges-f...
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Education follows the model of the Soviet Union's economy, where a small group of people decides what to teach, how to teach, and how much teachers should be paid, while also exploiting unpaid prisoners by calling them students.
#EduSky
#EduSky
March 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Education follows the model of the Soviet Union's economy, where a small group of people decides what to teach, how to teach, and how much teachers should be paid, while also exploiting unpaid prisoners by calling them students.
#EduSky
#EduSky
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This article by Skemp written in 1983 & reproduced in @atmmathematics.bsky.social MT journal 293 is still extremely pertinent: “if we were to teach music the way we teach maths we would only succeed in putting most of them off for life.” >>
February 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This article by Skemp written in 1983 & reproduced in @atmmathematics.bsky.social MT journal 293 is still extremely pertinent: “if we were to teach music the way we teach maths we would only succeed in putting most of them off for life.” >>
Being older, I find myself implicitly included in the stereotypical: "kids today have sense of ... they just want to be influencers" etc. conversations. These happen even in college staffrooms. Why do educators fall into condemning young people in this way? We made their world and its choices!
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Being older, I find myself implicitly included in the stereotypical: "kids today have sense of ... they just want to be influencers" etc. conversations. These happen even in college staffrooms. Why do educators fall into condemning young people in this way? We made their world and its choices!
... [2/2] There's too much assessment of "what does Learning look like" & not enough appreciation of what's going on inside the head of actual people doing the learning. Any thoughts?
January 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
... [2/2] There's too much assessment of "what does Learning look like" & not enough appreciation of what's going on inside the head of actual people doing the learning. Any thoughts?
I've been thinking about the similarity between how neurodiversity has always been defined in terms of it external presentation (behaviours etc.) Rather than the actual I internal processes (the lived experience, neurology) & how learning is seen by teachers. ... [1/2]
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I've been thinking about the similarity between how neurodiversity has always been defined in terms of it external presentation (behaviours etc.) Rather than the actual I internal processes (the lived experience, neurology) & how learning is seen by teachers. ... [1/2]
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
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I don't think we should be sending the message to children and young people that learning is about memorising a curriculum and behaving 'impeccably'. I believe they also need a sense of agency for motivation and that is the bit which maybe has gone missing. 🤷♀️ #EduSky
December 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I don't think we should be sending the message to children and young people that learning is about memorising a curriculum and behaving 'impeccably'. I believe they also need a sense of agency for motivation and that is the bit which maybe has gone missing. 🤷♀️ #EduSky
Recommend this article on typical reactions to self-directed learning: www.self-directed.org/tp/lord-of-t.... There is a fear of lack of control when it comes to Children and Young people.
Yes, It’s Lord of the Flies Around Here | Alliance for Self-Directed Education
Talking to others about SDE is frequently frustrating, due to their misconceptions which they often do not wish to challenge.
www.self-directed.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Recommend this article on typical reactions to self-directed learning: www.self-directed.org/tp/lord-of-t.... There is a fear of lack of control when it comes to Children and Young people.