By Caitlin Barefoot, Undergraduate student, Cardiff University, and Dr Tanvir Bush, Research Fellow, Bath Spa University In the face of rising polarisation and intolerance in our communities, could practicing ‘transformational inclusion’ be a potential antidote for the student body? Applying transformational inclusion as a student  Rogoff (1995) demonstrates that learning is not an individual process that can be understood in isolation, rather learning simultaneously takes pl

By Lauren Flannery, PhD student and Associate Professor, The University of East Anglia When I began my PhD alongside my academic role, I expected to think critically, write analytically, and plan strategically. What I didn’t expect was to feel so deeply. Sitting in classes again as a student, I became acutely aware of how it feels to belong, to be heard, and to be met with genuine curiosity. These experiences reminded me that learning is profoundly relational. Inclusion, at i