“But then again, they did get their chief cricket writer to piece together this article. And he’s a cricketer, not a PE teacher, so what can we expect? 😐 — unjustifiable lobbying by vested interests overlooking the chasm separating LAMPE & sport! bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

PaddleUK (formerly British Canoeing, the BCU) is looking for new leadership: for a Chair of the Board. This is the most significant role of all within the organisation, and is key for those of us who care passionately about life on and around the water 👇 paddleuk.org.uk/recruitment-op…

“I think the only starting point for any resolute ethics capable of dealing with the world as it actually is must be to assume that you are simply not qualified to decide for yourself what evil is. you have to accept the world FIRST and then critique it” — anna kw✨ 👇

“Parents who want their children to attend school are being gas-lit, & disbelieved by an ed system which puts families under increasingly expansive and critical surveillance” — see Tim Linehan 🧵 on this 👇 report, & on a truly dysfunctional narrative 🙄 leeds.ac.uk/news-society-p…

"…a consistent picture emerges that highlights certain aspects of behaviour, such as habits, access, and social support, as more likely productive targets of intervention than, say, providing knowledge or punishing undesirable behaviours" The Cynefin Company 👉 thecynefin.co/why-intervenin…

"What is sad is that the real world differences that do keep female fighters from gaining a depth of technical knowledge & experiences, which would make them so much more capable as fighters, get erased when people talk about male Natural Advantage" Medias Res #gender #inclusion

Engagement with place-based learning in the outdoors: - deepen practitioner’s awareness of place(s), plan programmes, & meet & engage teachers… - ask students what they want & how this is relevant to them & their lives in a digital, globalised era… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ends with "an allyship framework that serves to mask & reproduce many of the same issues that inhibit womens’ progression… further justifying the ‘natural’ exclusion of women… leaving the dominant masculine culture unquestioned" 👇 c/o Dr Robert Townsend tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“Ofsted claimed greater authority to decide what researchers’ texts mean than the researchers themselves… It exemplifies policy-based evidence, that is the production of evidence to justify or mobilise for a policy position” cf. Baudrillard on simulacra… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"The drive to be data-driven is interesting as it confuses a means with an end.  Data acquisition becomes the tail that wags the dog" & "the danger of being data-driven is the assumption that the answer is already out there" - ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 for the New Year 👇 thecynefin.co/twelfetide-240…

Cultures truly matter. You do not have to dictate what narrative individuals should adopt but rather influence their existing narratives to foster a more sustainable perspective. This video demonstrates how a company can use our software SenseMaker® for cultural mapping within