Monday, 30 January 2012

Monday, 9 January 2012

Magic

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl

Education

"How children experience education makes a difference to their outcomes." - Professor Pamela Mann, Head of Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University.




www.barnados.org.uk/info_on_resource_a5_leaflet_may051.pdf?debugstate=3

Love

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." - Roald Dahl

Magic

"A little magic can go a long way." - Roald Dahl

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Women

“We live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.” – Rosalyn Sussman

Dance

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here let's dance!"
"When life gives you lemons grab a tequlia and salt."

Love

"Love many, trust few. Learn to paddle your own canoe."

Dance

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain."

UNICEF

"The true measure of a nation's standing is how well it attends to it's children - their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued and included in the families and societies into which they were born."


pg 1 - UNICEF (2007) 'Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well being in rich countries' Innocenti Report Card 7. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

Inclusion

"Inclusion is a vision, a road to be travelled, but a road without an ending and a road with all kinds of barriers and obstacles, some of them invisible and some of them in our own hearts and minds." (pg. xi)


Mittler (2000) Working Towards Inclusive Education: Social Contexts. London: David Fulton.

Education

"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams.

ETNI -English Teachers Network (no date) Education - quotes. Available at: http://www.etni.org.il/quotes/education.htm (4/1/2012)

Social exclusion is . . . [definition]

"The unique interplay of a number of factors, whose consequence is the denial of access, to an individual or group, to the opportunity to participate in the social and political life of the community, resulting not only in diminished material and non-material quality of life, but also in tempered life chances, choices and reduced citizenship."

Kenyon, S., Lyons, G. and Rafferty, J. (2002) ‘Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility’, Journal of Transport Mobility, 10(3), pp. 207-219, SciVerse: ScienceDirect [Online] Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692302000121 (Accessed: 12th December, 2011).

Quotes

I have decided to post on here all the inspirational quotes I come across both on my course and in general! So here goes . . .


"Happiness is a journey, not a destination"