Events this week remind me of Shelia McNeil’s fabulous post on being political – Struggling with my Silence
You’re unaware of getting politicised at first.
It takes a key to unlock the door and this is what higher education does. Helps you see the world a different way – at least, I believe it should.
I’m an educator who’s worked in HE for 18 years as adviser, academic and researcher – so I would think that wouldn’t I?!
As women we’re bought up to be quiet and compliant, regardless of what’s going on around us. I’m thinking #Femedtech and how Catherine Cronin and Frances Bell’s presentation at the #ALT18 conference fired up my resistance to the invisibility of motherhood in the workplace. This is turn led to a couple of ‘coming-out’ posts with regard to feminism e.g. political and critical, a personal reflection
Tags: academic practice • blogging • Higher Education, • politics. exclusion • redundancy • silence