Announcing our festival headliners

Keri is a Māori Educationalist. His work in creating Te Reo Hāpai, a Māori language glossary for the mental health, addiction and edpsyility sectors, has been widely recognised for utilising a strengths-based, positive Māori worldview. Keri’s work developing the Māori word ‘Takiwātanga‘, ‘in their own space and time’, reflecting a Māori world view of Autism, has received international attention and recognition.

Cora is an educational psychologist and research director at the University of Southampton. Cora has published scientific articles about gender diversity in some of the biggest journals in the field in the world. She hosts the podcast ‘Classroom Psychology’ now heard in over 30 countries.

54 years ago Bernard Coard published one of the most important contributions to anti-racist practice in the UK educational context – ‘How the West Indian Child is made educationally subnormal in the British school system‘. This work brought to light the inequity and racist practices that led to hundreds of black children being sent to schools for the ‘Educationally Sub Normal’ – ESN schools. Bernard’s new book challenges us, as practitioners, to become a more dynamic, even revolutionary part of the learning experience of all children, especially those with the greatest needs and challenges.