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Hannah Spencer is right. Borders 2: Why Our Schemes are Being Suffocated by Design

By Neil Scott Back in 2018 when I spoke at a NECE conference about my journey from the partitioned landscapes of Ireland to the streets of Glasgow, I was thinking about how borders act as psychological -and physical – fences. I argued that our job as educators is to help young people climb over those […]

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Borders. Teaching Valuable Global Citizens in Glasgow {its what I do…}

{I was invited to speak at the Confronting Inequalities! The Role of Citizenship Education conference, organised by NECE.} The conference brought together academics and educationalists from across Europe, to discuss the issue of inequalities in the development of young people’s citizenship and political identity. My workshop was about the work of WOSDEC, the NGO who […]