Since the age of smart phones, navigating friendship, safety and self-esteem is ever more perilous and challenging for young people. Parents are seeing their children grow up in a world increasingly different from their own, while schools are having to adapt to a blurring of home life, school life and the online world.

In Episode 1 of Season 3 of The Rest is Education, we ask what an education centred around the child and seen through the eyes of a child might look like.

In this episode, David and Isabel are joined by Ramita Anand, educational consultant and founder of Elevate RA. Ramita has worked in many educational settings as a teacher and SENCO. She is the author Girl Elevated and presents the podcast Elevate, which can be found wherever you get your pods and here: https://www.elevate-ra.com/podcast/

Books or websites recommended or mentioned in the episode:

· The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rights/

· OECD (2024), What Does Child Empowerment Mean Today?: Implications for Education and Well-being, Educational Research and Innovation, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/8f80ce38-en.

· Girl Elevated https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60712996-girl-elevated

· Elevate RA https://www.elevate-ra.com/ book

· Jonathan Haidt https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/jonathan-haidt-wants-you-to-take-away-your-kids-phone

· Marc Brackett – Permission to Feel & The Ruler Programme https://marcbrackett.com/permission-to-feel/

· Michael Ungar – I Still Love You https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24792938-i-still-love-you

· Lisa Demour – Untangled https://drlisadamour.com/books/untangled/ podcast Ask Lisa

· Becky Kennedy – Good Inside https://www.goodinside.com/

· Big Feelings – Mollie West Duffy & Liz Fosslien https://www.lizandmollie.com/big-feelings

· The School of Life https://www.theschooloflife.com/

· Elizabeth Day – Friendaholic https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67353385-friendaholic

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