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by Lloyd on 18.02.10

Sustainable Development Educational Practice

For each of the areas that come up on the course, I intend to write a short piece of work. I hope that while some reflections will be personal to me, I will be able to underpin much of my ideas about sustainability and learning though validating them with theories and academic writing thought the...

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by Lloyd on 21.12.09

Reflective Statement and Individual Audit

Concepts and Practice of Peacemaking 2009Reflective Statement and Individual Audit by Lloyd Russell-Moyle ContentsAttendance 2Word Count 2Reflective Statement 3Defining moment and the group process 4Justice and/or to get peace? 11Education and Oppression 16Conclusion 22Individual Audit...

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by Lloyd on 02.12.09

Week 9 – School Strike

In this week we looked at School strike that took place in south Africa and a mediation between the elders and the younger in a village. This I found was really difficult - was strike actually a positive thing. Young people who were able and willing to be more radical were fighting and making as...

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by Lloyd on 24.11.09

Introducing the Mediation Iceberg and simulation week 8

Well The idea which was introduced in week 8 and also is outlined in the Conflict resolution toolbox (GT Furlong, P 76) shows how we see conflicts at the surface level but underneath the water line ( the line of sight and ease of passage in the mediation process) there is larger hurdles and things...

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by Lloyd on 24.11.09

Non-Directive Mediation

Thinking about the effectiveness of different tactics of mediation is an important skills for the conflict resolution practitioner. This week we looked at non-directive mediation, there is some dispute about the effectiveness compared to more directive techniques, but the facilitator outlined that...

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by Lloyd on 05.11.09

Thoughts what kind of edcuation we want

Today in CR, we had an an interesting session, we talked about what kind of learning we were getting and were we happy with it.Some of the comments showed the inherent concern that many of the members had with the process of assessment (much of which I have but also expect to have). The idea of...

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by Lloyd on 22.10.09

BNP on question time

The argument that the BNP are a legal party is a pretty dubious one as Bruno said. They are banned in the Police force, the Prison Service and a number of other professions. This is not a "legal party" in that scene that is should be treated as other parties. In the latest court case the BNP were...

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by Lloyd on 16.10.09

As October roles on… …thoughts on our world and our work

As October rushes by, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Chair of General Council, pauses to think about black history, war, refugees and the campaigns that make Woodcraft relevant.Black History MonthAs October roles on so do the exciting activities of our movement. Many of our groups have been celebrating and...

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by Lloyd on 12.10.09

Communication – the fourth ear

At that last session we looked and talked about active listing.The two exercises were basic and very similar. One was to divide in to pairs and we talked about a dilemma. Each of us had to listen and refrain from judging and giving advice.We asked ourselves questions such as: How was it? How was...

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by Lloyd on 09.10.09

Nobel Peace Prize

Just a quick note about the Nobel Peace Prize. Today they announced that the winner for the 2009 prize will be Barack Obama a president of the USA who has been in post for less than a year and was only in office for two months before he was nominated.This is an interesting choice for the Nobel...

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by Lloyd on 09.10.09

Nobel Peace Prize

Just a quick note about the Nobel Peace Prize. Today they announced that the winner for the 2009 prize will be Barack Obama a president of the USA who has been in post for less than a year and was only in office for two months before he was nominated.This is an interesting choice for the Nobel...

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by Lloyd on 08.10.09

A Second Week

Well what happened to the first (need to catch up)!In these blogs I intend to outline the structure of the sessions. Comment on the methods used and hopefully include some theoretical readings or thoughts about the inputs and other topics that come out though either the course and my every day...

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by Lloyd on 10.07.09

Treehouse Café

Im a director of the treehouse cafe, over the next few weeks for the summer we will be showing films and events: here's the message about it all:Exciting summer plans for the Treeehouse as of Monday 13th...... as of next Monday the cafe will be closed until reopening in lateSeptember.DON'T WORRY...

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by Lloyd on 15.06.09

Solidarity for Justice for SOAS Cleaners- Stop Deportations, occupation.

Dear students, and staff of SOAS,Today the University of Bradford Union meet to discuss the deportations of cleaners at the School of African and Oriental Studies, London. We want to send our solidarity greeting to you.We were both shocked and appalled to hear last week that the University had been...

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by Lloyd on 10.06.09

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by Lloyd on 29.04.09

Queer Easter – has 10 years of being Queer been so great?

This year was my 5th Queer Easter as we celebrated 10 years of a Queer seminar that may not be so queer but act as a critical friend to Queer.I don't mean that the seminar has been swamped by straight people (dread the thought!). I think (although not around) that 10 years ago when Queer Easter was...

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by Lloyd on 26.03.09

A march for Free Education but NUS fails to step forward

On a cold February morning about 60 students from Bradford set off to London to make their mark in the start of the free education ahead of the government review on University fees.With mounting evidence that graduates will not earn significantly higher than non-graduates the reasons for going to...

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by Lloyd on 26.03.09

Bradford hosts: War-refusers – the other Israel

On Monday 9th March about 40 Students gathered to hear Tamar Katz talk about her experiences being jailed for refusing to fight in the Israeli army. Tamar, a high school student, was drafted in to the army but told her story about how a group of school students and her joined a small but growing...

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by Lloyd on 20.02.09

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by Lloyd on 07.02.09

Stop the War meeting and Occupations

Over the last few weeks, and going in to months now occupations about Gaza have been happening up and down the country. This amazing act of solidarity has seen almost 20 Universities occupied from Scotland to Brighton even spreading to New York.The movement needed to come together - share ideas,...

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