"In Defence of Wider Learning" - Qasim Alli
Friday, September 26th, 4.15pm - Music Centre
"I am looking forward to trying to capture the imagination of your students, and inspire them to break out the boundary of their own heads. My focus is about getting them to broaden their minds, to help them to see the world in a different way, and re-evaluate 'truths'. This hopefully works to show them that knowledge which might not have a linear functionality can still fundamentally change the way you interact with and see the world."
The inaugural Fothergill Society Platform will be delivered by Qasim Alli. Qasim is a finalist reading Classics at Cambridge University. There, he is a Cambassador, working with the University to develop access events to prospective students. He has recently worked at a summer school with the Sutton Trust in Cambridge, giving disadvantaged lower 6th students the chance to experience a week studying at University. Qasim also works with the Faculty of Classics, sitting on the Access and Outreach Working Party. He also teaches an after-school Latin Club to Yr5 and 6 students at a local primary school throughout the academic year. Outside of University, Qasim works as part of the Learning and Development team with the Amos Bursary, which is dedicated to helping disadvantaged African and Caribbean boys with their sixth form studies, through the application process, at university, and getting onto the job ladder.
PLATFORM NOTES
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Ideas Station 1 - Words and Meaning
Ideas Station 2 - Sounds and Letters
Ideas Station 3: Pink is for Girls!
Station 4: Ken Robinson - Changing the Educational Paradigm
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and neccessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." (Robin Williams – Dead Poet’s Society)
Bibliography What you’ve done today is some semantics, some sociolinguistics, some epistemology, some gender theory. Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matters - Simon Goldhill Language and Gender - Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet Finding your Element - Ken Robinson Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World - Ella Frances Sanders http://www.ted.com/ http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ella-frances-sanders/11-untranslatable-words-f_b_3817711.html http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/16-fantastic-words-that-cant-be-translated-into-english#2olj87a |