MA Education Keynote Lecture: Transforming education to become a space of social and environmental justice for human liberation - 13th June

Register in-person or remote attendance via maeducation@stmarys.ac.uk for this event.

In this talk about her work as an experienced Intentional school leader Naheeda will share how she has developed a school improvement approach framed around moral purpose, malleable intelligence and metacognition. She will demonstrate how this is supporting the development of an emancipatory culture, curriculum and pedagogy both in her own school and beyond.

She will explain how emancipatory cultures must be underpinned by a commitment to developing an ongoing understanding of systemic injustice linked to class, gender, race and neurodivergence. She will explore how a commitment to malleability of intelligence and developing metacognition amongst educators is critical to supporting the disruption of entrenched inequalities across the system. But she will also explain what I mean by commitment to malleability of intelligence, and how this underpins so much of their work at Rathfern.

Speaker bio

Naheeda Maharasingam is a Local Leader of Education (LLE) an Evidence Lead in Education (ELE) and a fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching. She is a director of research at Mindsparks. She lead the Rathfern CCT Teacher Research Network for over five years. She was steering group lead for the embedding race equality work across all Lewisham schools for over three years. She is headteacher of Rathfern Primary School an outstanding (September 2021), diverse and dynamic inner London primary school. She is passionate about values which enrich her vision and permeate her school culture, pedagogy and curriculum with an unrelenting focus on disrupting the trajectory for disadvantaged pupils.