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Having worked in various settings including schools, specialist schools, the community, further and higher education, Sharon has developed a wealth of experience. These experiences together with her passion for learning is what drives her to succeed in connecting others to the art of learning for their own personal-development and transformational purposes. Sharon’s approach and vision for growth is what sets her apart from other self-development programmes.
Drawing upon her own lived experiences, Jones theorises the experiences of her participants using an analysis of Marxist, Bourdieusian and Freirean frameworks to uncover relations of power and illustrate how schooling has reduced individual agency and sustained lived inequalities. By creating space for a Visual Intervention within Critical Ethnography (VICE) alongside her analysis of class and society, Jones successfully illuminates that working class struggles are not permanent, and that agency can be activated. The book also addresses an important need by centring research from the lived educational experiences of the working class, and, in particular, working class adults. Making a unique theoretical and methodological contribution using an innovative combined methodology approach, the text ultimately highlights the potential of empowering disadvantaged individuals by raising critical consciousness.
Though it is focused on the experiences of adults, this book has important understandings for all sectors of education and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in the sociology of education, research methods in education, social inequality, social class and education politics.
Understanding the effects of trauma and how to effectively move forward....
When childhood trauma is embodied, it meets the child where they are at during that time resulting in the adult...
Series 1, E2: This series critically explores adversity and trauma, what it is and how it plays out in an educational context. In this episode, Aidan and I discuss the types of behaviours we see as educators when trauma has been embodied and how trauma can be released through drama and movement of body.
Series 1, E2: This series critically explores adversity and trauma, what it is and how it plays out in an educational context. In this episode, Jesus and I discuss trauma as real pain and how pedagogical knowledge is paramount for any professional working in this area to engage with conversations.
Series 1, E3: This series critically explores adversity and trauma, what it is and how it plays out in an educational context. In this episode, Ndindi and I discuss systemic trauma, self-awareness and a brave space model.
