{"id":10047,"date":"2019-03-13T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:04:41","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-alumna-abi-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/13\/nostalgia-podcast-with-alumna-abi-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with alumna Abi Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7198212-abi-hawkins\">latest episode<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channels\/4956567\">Nostalgia podcast series<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to SECL alumnus Abi Hawkins, Head of Religious Education at Simon Langton Girls&#8217; Grammar School in Canterbury. Abi graduated in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy in 2018 and now teaches pupils in key stages 3-5. In the interview, Abi explains that she always wanted to become a teacher and why she especially enjoys teaching subjects she struggled with the most at university, e.g. the philosophy of language.<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, we learn about the challenges Abi has faced in teaching subjects with which she formerly struggled; playing an orphan in &#8216;Annie&#8217;; why Abi remembers listening to a CD of upbeat cover songs in Australia at the age of 10; why she is not a fan of 3D film; what happened when she once went to a sing-a-long version of her favourite Christmas movie; using film in teaching; how students are more involved in politics now than was the case in the past; what happened when Abi was once asked in a bar to explain what Philosophy is; why she used to love the pressure of exams and why she feels she has fulfilled the dreams she has had since childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/13\/nostalgia-podcast-with-alumna-abi-hawkins\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124,18570,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}