#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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.…
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…
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…