#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 7 November 2011 I spoke at a session for Tent City University yesterday, with Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Alex Callinicos, Dave Hill, Guy Mitchell of the Really Open University, and a student activist from…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 November 2011 I want to make a brief return to one implication of the ideas fleshed out by Joss Winn earlier this year in a post on the Triple Crunch, which focused on…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 11 November 2011 “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 ONE. At…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 September 2011 I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 September 2011 At ALT-C 2011 I took part in a symposium on the Paradox of Openness: the true cost of giving online. I blogged about what I might say, as an introduction. In…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 12 July 2011 Brian Lamb has highlighted two quotes that made me think about politics, power, consensus and the web, and most importantly, about History. David Eaves, Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 June 2011 Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. ‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 April 2011 Sarah Amsler has recently asked: Why aren’t more academics speaking and acting out in greater earnest against the destructive policies of privatization, marketization and corporatization now being imposed on and from…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 March 2011 The slides for this workshop are available on my slideshare. Introduction: beyond cuts and taxation In a recent workshop on the alternative to cuts, DMU’s Sally Ruane argued that if the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 9 February 2011 I’m always banging on about the purpose of education. So, I wondered what some of my friends [not in education] would say when asked “what is the purpose of education? “about…