The Edu/SEND news has been dominated by the publication of the SEND Reforms white paper, so here’s brief round of up things we’ve seen from the previous week that might be useful to you.
1. Understanding harmful sexual behaviour, violence and misogyny by children
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has published a new Evidence and Insights Pack examining harmful sexual behaviour, misogyny and violence carried out by children. The pack brings together the latest research, data and practice examples from across England and Wales.
2. Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group report
The conclusions and recommendations of the independent review into ways to support neurodivergent children and young people in mainstream education settings.
3. The Bell Foundation language learning resources
A fantastic and well organised resources library which supports language learning. Resources can be searched by language level (e.g. new to english), education phase or resource type (e.g. worksheets and activities).
4. The Educated Guess Podcast Q&A episode
Cora and Dan ponder over listeners questions including sleep and nutrition in our formulations, AI and children’s learning, what’s ‘educational’ anymore about the educational psychologist work, and professional exclusion.
5. Rejecting the use of generative artificial intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries hold the position that analytic approaches such as reflexive thematic analysis are human research practices requiring a subjective, positioned, and reflexive researcher and therefore the use of GenAI in such approaches is not methodologically congruent.
