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  • Sean BellSean Bell is a founder member of the Brighton Salon and a journalist who formerly worked in the local press and on the magazines Computing and Campaign. Sean has written dozens of reviews of salon events and occasionally contributes to other publications.

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Sean Bell Reviews 'The Myth of Racist Kids by Adrian Hart'

Clashing experiences of racism in multi-cultural Britain

Children Holding Hands

Adrian Hart has not had an easy ride from the media over the controversial conclusions he published in his report, The Myth of Racist Kids (to obtain a copy of the report, see link at bottom of page), that criticises the official anti-racist policy in schools in today's multi-cultural Britain. This will have helped to prepare him for the grilling he received people who worked with black, minority and ethnic (BME) young people in Brighton at November's Salon.
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Sean Bell Reviews 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education with Kathryn Ecclestone'

Katherine EcclestoneDr Kathryn Ecclestone presented the basic ideas of the book she co-wrote, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, and upset a couple of people at the September Brighton Salon.

A trained therapist herself who is now a professor in education, Kathryn stressed that she was not against therapy, but that didn’t stop her being accused of not caring about children and of not understanding how good therapy can be within education. As a layman myself, it was good to see these therapists and teachers get worked up!
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Sean Bell Reviews 'The Future of Collaboration: Sharing and Work in the Networked Age'

Thistle Hotel BrightonOn Saturday 17th October 2009, The Brighton Salon and the Battle of Ideas teamed up at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton to argue about the implications of online collaboration and internet sharing for our social life and the future of society with a stellar panel featuring: Science fiction writer, author and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow; the world’s leading expert on the use of mobile sound technologies, Dr Michael Bull of the University of Sussex; and Nico Macdonald, author, What is Web Design?, consultant and chair of the Media Futures Conference. Keeping them in line for the event was Dr Robert Clowes, a philosopher of cognition and technology from the University of Sussex, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, and author, Being Human in the Age of Facebook (forthcoming).

Before the audience got the chance to grill the panel, each gave a short introduction:
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