SCDE Attainment Challenge, (seminar 4): Social justice –Agency and respect
Channel: SERA - Scottish Educational Research Association
Date: 2021-07-05

Social justice –Agency and respect

Date: 2nd June
Time: 1630 – 1730

Organisers: Scottish Attainment Challenge Project

Discussant: University of Edinburgh: Dr. Laura Colucci-Gray

Presenters: University of Aberdeen: Dr Archie Graham, Dr Dean Robson, Univervisty of West of Scotland: Dr. Stephen Day.

Seminar Overview

This is the fourth seminar in a series drawing on the work of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education Scottish Attainment Challenge Project.

This relates to the project’s fourth focus area, Social justice –Agency and respect which looks to extend and entrench social justice as an active education ethos, challenging deficit models, engendering pupil agency and developing critical social justice dispositions that recognise the impact of structural as well as individual factors on children and young people living in SIMD 1-40 areas.

The seminar will open out to discussion with attendees after two short inputs from the presenters.

The overall seminar series aims to engage with a wide audience on five focus areas emerging from the Project:

Pedagogy in Practice – becoming a teacher
Flourishing and Belonging – an ethic of care
Reframing Schooling – in and of the world
Social Justice – agency and respect
Theory, policy, experience – creating professional space