{"id":44,"date":"2020-05-14T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sej.eis.org.uk\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2020-09-30T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:19:15","slug":"features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/features\/","title":{"rendered":"Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417-725x480.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2417.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/args\/\">Action Research Grants<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-10-11T12:00:00+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">11th October 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This is a reflection from Susan Whyte, on her participation in the EIS\u2019s Action Research Grants Scheme from 2021-22. From professional peace to professional voice Scottish teachers are well placed to develop as professionals. There are many systems in place designed to promote growth and development as a practitioner, challenging complacency and asking us to\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/args\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Action Research Grants<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418-725x480.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2418.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/reform\/\">Education Reform, but not as we hope it&#8230;<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-10-11T10:58:00+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">11th October 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When the Education (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 4th June 2024, teachers and lecturers across Scotland might have been forgiven for believing that its publication signalled the first concrete step in advancing the long-awaited reform of our national qualification and inspection bodies. The profession had, after all, been waiting for three years for the Scottish\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/reform\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Education Reform, but not as we hope it&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419-725x480.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2419.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/stopthefascists\/\">How we stop the fascists<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-10-11T10:58:00+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">11th October 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The philosopher Hannah Arendt, the chronicler of totalitarianism in the 20th century, defined fascism as the temporary alliance of the mob and the elite. She also coined the phrase, \u2018the banality of evil\u2019 when describing the unthinking, routine way in which Nazis like Adolf Eichmann, whose trial she reported, committed the most horrific crimes against\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/stopthefascists\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: How we stop the fascists<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420-725x480.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2420.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/equality\/\">Equality Focus<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-10-11T10:57:00+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">11th October 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Free school meals As part of the EIS\u2019s wider anti-poverty work, the EIS remains fully committed to the roll out of universal free school meals to all young people in Scotland, and continues to press the Scottish Government to deliver its commitment to expand this to all pupils without further delay. Concerningly, the original promise\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/equality\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Equality Focus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421-725x480.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/10\/SEJonlineImagesOctober2421.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/your-union-your-voice\/\">Your Union, Your Voice<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-10-11T13:20:00+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">11th October 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We encourage members of the EIS BAME, Disabled and LGBT Networks to consider standing for election to your local management committee, or to EIS Council which is the principal decision-making body of the Union. Being involved in these fora can be an empowering and beneficial experience, and an opportunity to raise the profile of issues\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/your-union-your-voice\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Your Union, Your Voice<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/oct2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}