Elephant Times Magazine YEAR ONE

Tide~ introduces an online magazine … 

“There is a need for new initiative to respond to the educational challenges of 2020-2021.  Challenges for example that emerge from uncertainty about the global impact of Covid-19, the positive messages of Black Lives Matter, the urgent need to engage with climate change issues and concerns about international relationships [globally and in Europe]; and UK international development priorities [with the winding up of DfID].”

Download the whole ET 5 magazine or individual articles 

ET 5 was the last magazine in the first cycle. It provided the opportunity to review the new Tide~ Network's first year. Four key articles, each resulting from working with groups, fed into the AGM - and plans for the next year.

ET 5 has two feature articles:

  • Sarah Snyder - Mali revisited ~ 'Where camels are better than cars'
  • Harriet Marshall responding to ET2 poses challenges 'Bridging gaps & building wisdom'

ET editors Jeff Serf & Scott Sinclair co-ordinated four groups:

  • Gilroy Brown, Rita Chowdhury & Nikki Craig who worked on plans for making the most of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games.
  • Dorit Braun, Vipin Chauhan & Rohini Corfield on the initial plans for 'Connecting Dialogues'.
  • A group that came together for a Zoom conversation stimulated by Elif Shafak's book: 'How to stay sane in an age of division'. That group involved Helen Backhouse, Dorit Braun, Tim Boyes, Vipin Chauhan, Rohini Corfield, Cathryn Gathercole, Darius Jackson, Lucy Kirkham, Elena Lengthorn, & Audry Osler.
  • Richard Woolley, Elena Lengthorn, & Clive Harber who designed & implemented the Worcester project [See ET 6]

See: The Elephant Times [6] May 2021  Or download from this website.

This the sixth Elephant Times came out before ET5. It was an outcome of a Tide~ Project in partnership with School of Education, University of Worcester. The project, and the ET, has a focus on the South African concept of Ubuntu – i.e. "that I am because we are" - and its potential to inform our vision for education in a post-Covid world. The project workshops and writing groups were an opportunity to explore experiences and visions for the future.

Thinking about Ubuntu became a key influence in developing the Connecting Dialogue initiative. See for example

Articles

Richard Woolley & Elena Lengthorn - set the scene Ubuntu: Project, Partnership, Principles

Antoinette Frearson – on strategies for enhancing inclusion and diversity   

Suzette Kearns – Reducing isolation for children with SEN

Carla Solvason, Emma Bailey &  Emma Davis – supportive school leadership

James Boddey –Early Years - Freedom with connections

Elena Lengthorn & Sian Evans – Teenagers ... connecting to nature

Nina Eliasson Sejrsen – the views of peer-group mediators

Kate Howen – Culturally Responsive Music Education

Sue Rees – the challenges of returning to post-lockdown school

Clive Harber & Jeff Serf – concluding thoughts on this Ubuntu project

To download individual articles the whole magazine:  ET [4] Articles 

The fourth Elephant Times began to focus on Climate Change.  "Climate Change is, hopefully, no longer 'the elephant in the room'.  It is now recognised, across the political spectrum, as an issue we need to engage with." 

This work led to the 2022 Tide~ initiative: How goes it? One Year on from COP26.

Articles:

Bill Scott - invites us to seize the opportunity to engage with climate change

Katie Riley - describes her climate strike experience   

Zafroon Bibi & Maria Ferrante - Year 6 using 'The Viewer' as a stimulus 

Hannah Boyden - explores a learning journey responding to the SDGs

Margaret Barnfield - reflects on a primary science project 'Why on Earth?'

Kevin Bailey - highlights the importance of a real-life context 

Ben Ballin - responds to Nine Propositions            

Jon Cree - reflects on his Kalahari experiences

To review individual articles: ET [3] Articles Or for the whole magazine ET [3] go here.

"Black lives matter and always should have". Revisiting the archive publication 'Where it really matters' set the scene for the third Elephant Times.  It responded to the debates generated by Black Lives Matter asking questions like: Does our collective psyche still take a lot from the assumptions of the past?

Articles

Debbie Epstein & Alison Sealey - revisit 'Where it really matters'                        

Daniel Stone - questions what is taught about justice and oppression                    

Rohini Corfield - invites us to decode diversity & consider divided society

Jo Fairclough - talks about enabling students to take leadership of their own learning

Lynn Davies - considers progress on 'Own Goals in education' and finds us wanting. 

Balbir Sohal - reflects on learning cycles and issues about race

Alison Twells & Rob Unwin - explore slavery & industrialisation in Sheffield

Nikki Craig - seeks dialogue about student leadership opportunities 

Phil Glendenning - Explores the Australian experience - Black lives matter

Miguel Argibay - challenges us about how poverty limits education

To review or print individual articles: ET [2] Articles Or for the the whole magazine ET [2] go here. 

Thinking afresh was the theme of the second Elephant Times – to think about the world we want to live in post Covid19 – to think about our contribution as a teacher network.  

Articles.  

  • Gilroy Brown reflects on the work of Maurice Coles
  • Dorit Braun - makes the case for talk about Covid 19
  • Chris Durbin - proposes the need for fresh thinking about global citizenship education
  • Mick Waters - makes the case for a curriculum that educates
  • Hiromi Yamashita - reflects on her Tide~ experience and her work in Japan
  • Robin Richardson - offers a stimulus for taking stock ... and thinking about the future
  • Nina Hatch - makes the Environmental Education connection
  • Elena Lengthorn - highlights the value of a "factfulness" approach
  • Joy Schultz - reflects on the global learning experience in Australia

To review individual articles go to Articles: The Elephant Times ET 1 Or for whole magazine ET [1] go here.

This the first Elephant Times magazine introduced core themes: Covid 19 as an amplifier of inequality; - climate change; and the ned to respond to Black Lives Matter. It also reflected on the relevance of past work.

Articles

  • Rita Chowdhury - reflects on Covid-19 and the challenges for a new network
  • Colm Regan takes this further highlighting implications for development education
  • Lucy Kirkham considers what she has learnt from lock-down teaching
  • Cathryn Gathercole raises questions about responding to young people's challenges
  • Darius Jackson reviews thinking about Global Learning & Holocaust Education
  • Linda Clark reflects on Voices from South Africa
  • Clive Harber & Jeff Serf revisit 'Towards Ubuntu'. Can it help inform current debates?
  • Richard Woolley points the way to engaging controversial issues in primary schools
  • Andrew Simons remembers forgotten links and the need to engage them
  • Bill Elgar takes the opportunity of lock-down to reflect on his Ghana experiences
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