#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
On Thursday 20th June, I’m keynoting the University of the West of Scotland Learning and Teaching Conference. My talk is entitled: The challenges of resilient learning and the production of a university experience My slides are here. The Spotify playlist…
NOTE: Joss Winn reminds me that “Human capital is a flagrantly despicable term to reduce people to”. He is, of course, correct. Joss adds: “people = abstract labour = value = capital, the automatic Subject.” See for example Bowles and Gintis,…
On Sunday Kate Bowles tweeted that: The tiny problem for the idea that Coursera will “revolutionize” all of our education systems is that revolution usually comes from within. This made me think about the inside/outside of education, and the idea…
I was struck over the weekend by a friend’s statement that “I struggle to translate your critiques into the various education/technology contexts of the global South”. This is an issue that generally plagues those of us who work in higher…