{"id":11210,"date":"2019-08-29T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=11210"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T11:16:48","slug":"nostalgia-janet-neilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/08\/29\/nostalgia-janet-neilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching, television and genealogy; Nostalgia interview with Janet Neilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7354478-janet-neilson\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies, interviews Janet Neilson, a former teacher in Swansea, who talks about her educational background and the differences in career advice given in those days compared to today.<\/p>\n<p>Janet talks about the days when married women were not allowed to teach; why she became a junior school teacher; her thoughts on the National Curriculum; not having a TV before 1962; singing in the Swansea Philharmonic Choir; having a grammar school education; studying Religious Studies as a mature and disabled student; being bullied on her first day at school; the taboo around calling teachers by their first names; why as a teacher she was &#8216;strict, firm and fair&#8217;; and her fascination with genealogies.<\/p>\n<p>The next interview will be with our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1665\/carrette-jeremy\">Professor Jeremy Carrette<\/a>, Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Culture and the University&#8217;s Dean for Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies, interviews Janet Neilson, a former teacher in Swansea, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/08\/29\/nostalgia-janet-neilson\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210"}],"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=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}