From - Monday Musings 2020
From - Monday musing – thinking about thinking (meta Cognition) What you may not know is that (well given that catering was really my fist training – but that aside) my first academic work was in social science, psychology and child development. Now I think back it was great training used practically in the time I was a social worker, but also leaving me both understanding social inequality and a sense of social injustice. I grew up in the inner city of Birmingham, then much as now a multi-cultural centre. I returned there to do my ministerial training. You may know that one of the things that happened whilst I was young was that my father took me to a traveller camp in Aston (part of the city centre), there I saw a young girl, about the same age as me (9 or 10 years) dressed in a threadbare dress playing by a brazier on what was by then a largely cleared site. I remember quite clearly realising that it was only a quirk of fate that I had been born to...
