Blog action day: the road to academia
Today is blog action day, and this year’s theme is poverty.
As for La Marguerite, one of my favourite personal/public blogs on climate and human responsibility, I was thinking of blogging something close to home, maybe climate related. But much of the thought process at the moment is around writing a critical incident diary for my programme of study, a certificate in teaching and learning development, and poverty played quite a role in me entering into teaching.
I did grow up in a single-parent family, in a council flat, on an estate in London. We were relatively poor, and my mother worked two jobs. Similar to the new Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy, I was the first person in my family to come to university.
But only relatively poor. The moment of poverty I remember on the road to academia was in Zambia, one morning in April 2003. More »
