#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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:…
At some point this coming academic year I have to give my inaugural Professsorial. I’m wondering whether Blue Monday (21 January 2013) would be the most apposite day. Anyway, it has the working title of “2+2=5: The University and the Secular Crisis”.…
George Siemens published a post over on his blog titled Neoliberalism and MOOCs: Amplifying nonsense. George’s key points in my opinion were that: “Numerous quasi-connected fields that thrive on being against things have now coalesced to be against MOOCs” “The more prominent argument…
ONE: neoliberalism as a global pedagogy of dispossession Neoliberalism is a global pedagogical project aimed at the dispossession of free time, and education is a central institutional means for its realisation. This project aims at reinscribing all of social life…
Yesterday @chunkymark interviewed @aaronjohnpeters. Peters made the important point at 12.31 in the video that the lead-into and beyond the next General Election in 2015 offers a relatively unique “field of opportunity” for recasting a politics of opposition and alternative…
ONE: outing capitalism We need to talk about capitalism. We need to talk about this because of the systemic failure of capitalist counter-measures to enable the process of accumulation to be stabilised, and of growth to be renewed. The failure…
To continue as we are feels difficult. To wait for redemption, or salvation. Inside this secular crisis. As Cleaver writes: neither the cyclical business downturns nor the upturns, nor a whole series of capitalist counter-measures (local and international), have resolved…
ONE. Is this (consumer) capitalism? The Royal Society’s People and Planet reportfrom 2012 argued that there is an urgent need to address issues of climate change and resource availability across the globe. The report argued: in the most developed and…