#022 – Emma Sheppard: MTPT Project
21st June 2018
In this episode Iesha talks to Emma Sheppard from the Maternity Teacher/Paternity Teacher Project. Iesha and Emma discuss why Emma founded the project; how Emma felt shame as a working mother; men’s choices when they become parents; the impact of government policy on parents and why Emma thinks it is important to emphasise parents’ choice in regards to their careers. Iesha and Emma are also joined by a very special guest: Emma’s daughter Lucy.
In this episode Iesha and Emma:
- Explain the need for the MTPT project
- Reflect on how parenting has helped Emma in the classroom
- Reveal why Emma set up the MTPT project
- Examine the negative impact of societal expectations for mothers
- Highlight the MTPT project’s success so far
- Respond to criticisms of the MTPT project
- Explore gender stereotyping
- Highlight how fathers’ choices are disabled by government policies
- Examine school support for people going through IVF
- Consider how schools should support women who have had miscarriages
- Discuss how to make Saturday conferences accessible for parents
- Chew over how parent teachers are treated in schools
- Consider the relationship between parenthood and teacher retention
- Reveal Emma’s thoughts about Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
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Music credits:
‘Oui’ by Simon Mathewson and ‘Jump for joy’ by Scott Holmes both from http://freemusicarchive.org
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