#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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.…
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…
On Tuesday 15 October I’m presenting something on “The University, technology and co-operation”, at the Critical Perspectives on Educational Technology symposium at the University of Brighton, UK. There are some notes on a co-operative pedagogy of struggle here. My slides are…
Earlier this month Tony Hirst pointed out some upcoming possibilities for the “distribution and application of open public data (that is, openly licensed data released by public bodies.” Of particular interest in the debate over opening-up higher education is the…
The Leicester Digital Literacies Framework (Digilit Leicester) Project is a two-year, whole-city, educational intervention that pivots around a knowledge exchange partnership between Leicester City Council and De Montfort University. It is led by me and Josie Fraser, with Lucy Atkins…
On Tuesday I heard a series of speakers, including Rachel Wenstone from the NUS, Malcolm Ryan as the ALT Conference co-chair, and Alan Ford from the University of Nottingham, speak about educational institutions as spaces for partnership-working between staff and…
I wrote this as I listened to a Jon Hopkins’ Boiler Room mix. On Tuesday 10 September, I will be taking part in a conversation about technology-enhanced learning and the crisis. This emerged from some work at the Alpine Rendez-Vous…
On Friday I’m presenting at the Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Edinburgh. There is a fuller paper here. My slides are here. I intend to make the following points. ONE:…
I have a new paper published over at the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS). The Journal is non-profit making and open, and is a space for Marxist and other Left analysis of education. My article picks up some…