#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
“It isn’t for the moment that you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “You have to carry the fire.” “I don’t know how to.”…
I’m speaking on 29th November at an ESRC seminar series on Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights. The seminar is on Affective Digital Economy: Intimacy, Identity and Networked Realities. Whilst Josie Fraser will be speaking about our Digital Literacy Leicester Framework Project, I will…
ONE. Elsewhere on this blog I recently wrote about the domination of merchants in higher education: The links between commercial educational providers and universities, educators and students as producers and consumers of educational services, data and products, demonstrate power and…
With Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln, I’m running a workshop at the Discourse, Power and Resistance conference next Easter. Our abstract is as follows. [Note that Mike Neary from Lincoln is also running a session on The University and…
Merchants dominate producers now. Commercial capital and money-dealing capital dominate productive capital. The expropriation of surplus value from producers by merchant capital is a primary source of profit. In educational production, in the production of curriculum resources, in the funding…
ONE. Staking out and enclosing y/our education: they have to create a market They want to marketise our pedagogy. They want to marketise our interactions with students and staff. They want to create a market by quantifying y/our interactions with…
ONE. Educational truth: there is no alternative to economic growth David Willetts’ speaking at the UK Quality Assurance Agency, We need to talk about Quality: MOOCs: when Goldman Sachs are investing and Stamford say it is significant and big players…
As David Kernohan has argued over at Followers of the Apocalypse, the Coalition is busy re-writing history in the name of its cultural revolution. This is usefully applied to David Willetts’ recent pamphlet for the Social Market Foundation, Robbins Revisited.…
On Tuesday 29 October I’ll be running a seminar at the Social Science Centre in Lincoln entitled “Moving the goalposts: some realities of democratic football governance”. I intend to open up a discussion about my time from 1999-2009 as Chair…
Yesterday’s symposium on critical perspectives on educational technology made me think about the following issues. FIRST. How do we understand the structuring effects of the educational and pedagogic structures in which we work? How do we understand the ways in…