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Cultural Capital; What you know matters!
In the 1970s, the term ‘Cultural Capital’ was introduced by sociologist Bourdieu in response to the idea of ‘Economic Capital’ from Marx (Cultural Learning Alliance, 2019). Beyond this ‘Social Capital’ a highly contested term could be defined as the benefits of ‘who you know’ (Claridge 2004) , Great- but what does that pile of words mean? Well…
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PACEY Conference 2024
I was invited to attend the conference by the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) as an attendee. It was very kind to be offered a place and I accepted the offer (which I usually would have declined) due to my ongoing mindset work of being grateful and accepting opportunities that come my…
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Skills. I’ve got them and so have you.
Today I’ve been working on the research for my podcast for childminders on the theme of valuing skills. It’s a strange subject to cover in a podcast for childminders one might say. It’s seems to be something that childminder’s don’t really think about much until some negative media attention happens and we all jump on…
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When a Childminder has time off sick
Having recently had my first full week off from work in almost two years due to ill health, I thought it would be worth a little write about
