Neighbourhoods: This could be a breath of fresh air

Friday, 14 March 2014

This could be a breath of fresh air

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14 Mar 2014 14:41:06

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What the preachers should be doing 'The world is full of people who want to tell others how they should be living, when what they should be doing is sitting down with them and finding out what their lives are really like, and why they're like that in the first place.' Photographer Jim Mortram in a recent Guardian article.

I don’t mean to be rude Sorting through some papers today, I came across a fieldwork note from a project I was evaluating a couple of years ago. It involved a bunch of young people looked after, on an outing with a hugely interesting environmentalist (among others). My note, verbatim: Stuart had been talking about birds and wildlife for about 1.5 hrs when one of the girls (age about 15) said “I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not really interested in birds.” I posted about this outing at the time, reflecting on the sensitivity of the young people, who know all about the power of feelings and the way others tend to disregard them. There’s also a short article about the project here.

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