I asked a child trauma expert; Jane Evans and manager of In2Change organisation and a teacher of children with troubled pasts; Hanif Mohammed, what they thought about the use of body-cams worn by teachers and if it would make the school safer for the teachers while holding students accountable for their actions. Continue reading “Listen: Would a body-cam be useful in schools – Interview”
This is a snippet from one of my interviews with a secondary school teacher in Reading, who talks about an 11 year old boy that was violent towards her and she answers if he should’ve been expelled, suspended or sent to counselling? Continue reading “Listen: Lisa Cybaniak on if a violent chid should be expelled or counselled”
This is one of my interviewees, Ruth, who has been a secondary school, science teacher for five years at a referral unit in Surrey. After listening to her experience on school violence, I asked her two questions: Continue reading “Listen: Teacher Ruth on who do we hold responsible?”
Getting people to talk about school violence and get interviewed too, is a difficult task. In the beginning aimed to do interviews from a variety of people: teachers, students, school faulty, organisations that help children with behavioural issues, child psychologists, the Department of Education. Continue reading “Gaining Access”
It’s closer to the deadline now so it’s crunch time to get the rest of my interviews in place to make sense of the story. I’ve conducted a few of them that went really well but have a few more left to do.
Since this topic of school violence is a sensitive one, the process of getting a potential interviewee to reply to me is very difficult and takes a lot of persuasion. Continue reading “The Interview”
Last month I had to present an idea for the radio documentary in front of two of my lecturers in three minutes, with some questions after. Looking back at the pitch, I think it went well. Continue reading “The Pitch”
Before my pitch I had to think of a clear idea for the documentary as I needed it to be a topic that would keep me interested in it for the next 2 and a half months till my deadline. I had to research whether the topic was doable and interviewees were accessible in an ethical way as well. Continue reading “The Initial Research”
My final project is to create a seven minute radio documentary, which also includes this blog to showcase the production process. I started working on this project last month. At first, coming up with a topic was hard as there were many ideas in my head but only a few are doable at this point but I also wanted it to be something that would intrigue and excite me. Continue reading “The Start”
A Teachers' Pain 