Jo
@jopsych2.bsky.social
Educational Psychologist. Interested in loads of things - literacy, emotions & learning, social justice, equal access to arts & nature for children & young people. Views personal not representative of any organisation.
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There seems to have been a shift over the last 5-10 years to much more external control over behaviour in secondary, based on 'zero tolerance' type approaches pushed by high profile educators. So we have a split between a self-regulation/agency focus in primary and a control focus in secondary. 2/3
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
There seems to have been a shift over the last 5-10 years to much more external control over behaviour in secondary, based on 'zero tolerance' type approaches pushed by high profile educators. So we have a split between a self-regulation/agency focus in primary and a control focus in secondary. 2/3
..some nights my mum's like, I genuinely cannot do anything with for you guys - I've got nothing for you older ones. I can only do pasta & sauce for the little ones' & [l'm] like, That's fine, mum. I will go and try & get myself a tenner from someone” - Girl 17
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
..some nights my mum's like, I genuinely cannot do anything with for you guys - I've got nothing for you older ones. I can only do pasta & sauce for the little ones' & [l'm] like, That's fine, mum. I will go and try & get myself a tenner from someone” - Girl 17
"Sometimes we struggle to pay the bills. Right now it's OK...before mum would cry every time she was going to pay the bills." - Boy, 16
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Sometimes we struggle to pay the bills. Right now it's OK...before mum would cry every time she was going to pay the bills." - Boy, 16
'Sometimes when I need to take a bath or have a shower, the water doesn't really work sometimes... so sometimes when [children] don't have enough water to take a shower, they always just have to go to school not clean and they didn't shower." - Girl, 10
July 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
'Sometimes when I need to take a bath or have a shower, the water doesn't really work sometimes... so sometimes when [children] don't have enough water to take a shower, they always just have to go to school not clean and they didn't shower." - Girl, 10
"We went to a temporary house so [the housing association] can fix our house, but when we came back we could still smell the mould and we could see some. I don't like the fact that they lied to us, and they didn't unveil the truth." - Girl, 11
July 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"We went to a temporary house so [the housing association] can fix our house, but when we came back we could still smell the mould and we could see some. I don't like the fact that they lied to us, and they didn't unveil the truth." - Girl, 11
When I worked in HE, I found some colleagues were somewhere between puzzled and outraged when first year students wanted to see model essays, to have a sense of what “good enough to pass” looked like
- which again speaks to the disconnect between positions I think
- which again speaks to the disconnect between positions I think
June 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
When I worked in HE, I found some colleagues were somewhere between puzzled and outraged when first year students wanted to see model essays, to have a sense of what “good enough to pass” looked like
- which again speaks to the disconnect between positions I think
- which again speaks to the disconnect between positions I think
I think also there’s a connection between the experience of how the national curriculum / A-level is assessed in a highly prescriptive way and arriving into university where you are asked to have A Point of View. For most that is a total shift in the purpose and expectation of assessment
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think also there’s a connection between the experience of how the national curriculum / A-level is assessed in a highly prescriptive way and arriving into university where you are asked to have A Point of View. For most that is a total shift in the purpose and expectation of assessment