The Institute for Education Policy Studies

The Institute for Education Policy Studies

Website Update – May 2009

The Institute for Education Policy Studies is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing analysis of education policy. It is at http://www.ieps.org.uk . The Institute seeks to develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory, ideology and policy development. It also seeks to develop Marxist transformative education theory, analysis and policy analyse and develop socialist/Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives, including Freirean perspectives. The IEPS and its journal address issues of Social Class, 'Race', Gender and Capital/ism; Critical Pedagogy; New Public Managerialism and Academic / non-Academic labour, and Empowerment/ Disempowerment.
The IEPS critiques global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses and policy, together with New Public Managerialism . It was set up in 1989 and hosted the formation of the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators (1989-2001). The IEPS organises and publicises national conferences and also publishes on-line papers by Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist writers.

IEPS publishes an online journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (http://www.jceps.com/) twice a year. The editors of JCEPS are Prof Dave Hill (Chief/ Managing Editor), Prof Pablo Gentile (Latin America) and Prof Peter McLaren (North America). The journal welcomes articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed / peer juried international journal.

The Institute for Education Policy Studies has recently updated its web site. In particular, the biographical details of the Institute’s key writers have been updated, for: Dave Hill, Glenn Rikowski, Paula Allman, Mike Cole, Peter McLaren and Sharhzad Mojab. You can view these updates at: http://www.ieps.org.uk/iepsbios.php

The Institute for Education Policy Studies: http://www.ieps.org.uk/

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Constantin - Live at the 229 Club

Constantin – Live at the 229 Club

Here are links to two tracks from last Saturday’s live show by Constantin at the 229 Club, Great Portland Street, London, from YouTube:

She’s Got No Money:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-JkGoAlnA


London Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82fd6W_fWQ

Gregory Rikowski was there for the show and has written a review of this excellent band’s performance.

See Gregory’s review at:
http://www.constantin.uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=53

Constantin will be playing at the Water Rats, King’s Cross, London on 12th June.

Gregory Rikowski’s blog, GREGSWORLD, is at: http://www.gregrikowski.blogspot.com

Constantin’s web site is at: http://www.constantin.uk.com

Gregory’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/92945414

Constantin’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/constantinspace


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Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues XII

Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues XII

From Critique to Contestation

MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES XII
A Day Seminar

10.00– 4.30, Saturday July 4th 2009
Birmingham City University
Perry Barr, B42 2SU
Attwood Building
Room: 044

This is to announce: the 12th Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminar
We will be focusing upon: Current Issues in Marxist Education Research

We are pleased to confirm the following line-up of speakers:
Andrea Beckmann, Charlie Cooper, Richard Hatcher, Ken Jones, and Gurnam Singh

More information on paper titles and details of the timetable will be sent to you in due course.
The seminar is free but places are limited.

To reserve a place and receive a numbered ticket, please contact Joyce Canaan at: joyce.canaan@bcu.ac.uk
A waiting list will come into operation when all the places have been allocated

Please forward this invite to those who may be interested

Convenors: Joyce Canaan and Richard Hatcher

The Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminars were founded by Tony Green (University of London, Institute of Education) and Glenn Rikowski in 2001. The first MERD Seminar was run at the Institute of Education in October 2002. For details on MERD Seminars 1-10, see: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=events&sub=MERD

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Marx and Philosophy Society - 2009 Conference Abstracts

Marx and Philosophy Society – 2009 Conference Abstracts

Abstracts of papers for the Annual Conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society are now available at: http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk

To reserve a place at the conference in advance, please email: martin.mcivor@ alumni.lse. ac.uk

Andrew Chitty

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Marx and Philosophy Society
Sixth Annual Conference
Saturday 6th June 2009
9.30am - 6.00pm
Room 642, Institute of Education, University of London
20 Bedford Way, London WC1


PROGRAMME:

Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne)
Beyond Telos and Totality: Immanent Critique as Selective Inheritance

Geoffrey Kay
Derivatives: 'Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties'

Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario)
Twenty-First Century Species-Being

Graduate panel:

Jeremy Cohan (NYU)
What Marx really thought about class

David Marjoribanks (Kent)
Marxism and morality: out of the 'moral wilderness'?

Caleb Basnett (York University, Toronto)
Re-inventing the subject: Marx and ethics


£10 waged, £5 unwaged, payable at the door(provides annual membership of the society and entrance)

To reserve a place in advance please email: martin.mcivor@ alumni.lse. ac.uk
Travel directions: http://www.ioe. ac.uk/sitehelp/ 1072.html
Further details at: http://www.marxandp hilosophy. org.uk

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Costantin

Constantin – Live at 229 Great Portland Street


Constantin are an exciting new electro-pop band. They played their second live show at 229 Great Portland Street last Saturday. Gregory Rikowski was there for the show and has written a review of this excellent band’s performance.

See:
http://www.constantin.uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=53

Constantin will be playing at the Water Rats, King’s Cross, London on 12th June.

Gregory Rikowski’s blog, GREGSWORLD, is at: http://www.gregrikowski.blogspot.com

Constantin’s web site is at: http://www.constantin.uk.com

Gregory’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/92945414

Constantin’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/constantinspace


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Friedrich Engels - Biography by Tristram Hunt

Friedrich Engels: The Frock-Coated Communist


The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

Tristram Hunt talks about his new book:

21st May, 7.00pm
Bishopsgate Institute
230 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH

Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the 19th century. A co-founder of international communism and co-author of The Communist Manifesto, Engels was far more than Marx’s right-hand man. He was a profound thinker in his own right who predicted the social effects of today’s free-market fundamentalism and globalisation. In this talk, Tristram Hunt discusses his biography of Engels, The Frock-Coated Communist, and considers how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with his uncompromising political philosophy.

Dr Tristram Hunt is one of Britain’s best known young historians. He is a lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and a former associate fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge. A leading historical broadcaster, he has authored numerous series for BBC Radio and Television and Channel 4 and is a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian and The Observer.

This event is organised in partnership with Newham Bookshop.
745-747 Barking Road, London E13 9ER: http://newhambooks.co.uk/blog

Tickets £6 (Concessions £4)
Tel: 020 7392 9220
Further details and online booking: http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=382

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After 1968

After 1968: The Singular, The Trans-individual and the Common


Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

After 1968
http://www.after1968.org/index.php/lectures/view/15
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/

Tuesday 19 May
14:00 – 18:00

After 1968: The singular, the trans-individual and the common
— lectures organised by Sara Farris
— auditorium

14:00
Introduction by Sara Farris

14:10
Luca Basso
”Singularity and the common in Marx”

14:50
break

15:05
Vittorio Morfino
”Individuation and trans-individual in Simondon and Althusser”

15:50
discussion

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Conference on Giovanni Arrighi

Conference on Giovanni Arrighi

http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com/

Conference on the Work of Giovanni Arrighi

"Dynamics of the Global Crisis, Anti-Systemic Movements and New Models of Hegemony"

"Dinámica de la crisis global, movimientos antisistémicos y nuevos modelos de la hegemonía"

At the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
25-29 May 2009

Participants: Giovanni Arrighi, Perry Anderson, Beverly Silver, David Harvey, Robert Brenner, Samir Amin, Emir Sader, Walden Bello, Theotonio dos Santos, Marcello de Cecco, Ravi Palat, John Saul, Ho-Fung Hung, Gillian Hart, Lu Aiguo, Ravi Sundaram, Takeshi Hamashita, Amiya Bagchi, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Luis Sandoval Ramírez, William Martin, Tom Reifer, Siba Grovogui

Organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofíahttp://www.museoreinasofia.es and the Universidad Nómadahttp://www.universidadnomada.net

Sponsored by the Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos and CLACSO

Full programme available here: http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com/

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The Future of Capitalism

The Future of Capitalism


The Financial Times today has a special magazine on The Future of Capitalism. Leading economic analysts, journalists and academics discuss this question in light of the current crisis of capitalism.

Contributors include:
Lionel Barber, Gary Becker, Larry Fink, Chrystia Freeland, Alan Greenspan, Francesco Guerrera, Paul Kennedy, Nigel Lawson, Kishore Mahbubani, Kevin Murphy, Edmund Phelps, Amartya Sen, Robert Shiller, Sir Martin Sorrell, Joseph Stiglitz, and Martin Wolf.


The Financial Times also has a web site on ‘The Future of Capitalism’, at: http://www.ft.com/indepth/capitalism-future


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Politics After the Crash

POLITICS AFTER THE CRASH

FIFTH SOUNDINGS EVENT: POLITICS AFTER THE CRASH
10.30am-4.30pm, Saturday 20 June 2009
120 Belsize Lane, London NW3
(nearest tube stations Belsize Park and Finchley Road)

Speakers include: LYNSEY HANLEY, MIKE KENNY (TBC), PAUL MASON, DOREEN MASSEY (TBC), JONATHAN RUTHERFORD, LEANNE WOOD

As the political fault lines of a new era take shape, what will be the defining politics of the next decade? In the wake of an era of social dislocation and rapid change one response will be a popular search for belonging and cultural familiarity. Our discussion will explore the popular reactions to the social fragmentation, inequalities and cultural destruction of ways of life that have resulted from the decades of economic restructuring as well as from the recession. This is already evident in the rise of the BNP in certain areas, and the alienation of younger generations from electoral politics. A new political culture will need to articulate the social goods that give security, meaning and value to people: home, family, friendships, good work, locality and imaginary communities of belonging. The way people give priority to these, and the reaction to the threats against them, will shape the post-crash political landscape.

Registration: £25 (includes an excellent lunch).

To reserve a place, go to: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/events/seminar5.html

Or send a cheque payable to ‘Soundings’ to FREEPOST, LON 176, London, E9 5BR (no stamp is needed). Places are limited so early booking is advisable.


TIMETABLE

10.30 - 11.45
Plenary 1: How the forces of global capital have been shaping people’s lives and livelihoods, with Paul Mason and Doreen Massey (tbc)

12pm to 1pm
Plenary 2: Culture and belonging in an insecure world
Lynsey Hanley, further speaker tbc

1pm – 2pm lunch

2pm – 3pm
Workshop 1: The appeal of the BNP and how to counter it (speaker tbc)
Workshop 2: Gangs, territory and class (speaker tbc)

3.30 – 4.30pm
Closing Plenary: political and policy engagement for a new socialism
Mike Kenny (IPPR) (tbc)
Leanne Woods (Plaid Cymru MWA)
Jonathan Rutherford

For more information on Soundings go to: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/contents.html


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What is a University?

What is a University? Explaining the Rise of Universities in Medieval Europe

This is an essay by Michaela Starkey, a first year Education Studies student in the School of Education at the University of Northampton.

It has been published on 'The Flow of Ideas' web site.

You can view Michaela's essay at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=contributions&sub=Universities%20-%20Michaela%20Starkey


Referenced as:

Starkey, M. (2009) What is a University? Explaining the Rise of Universities in Medieval Europe, Education Studies, School of Education, University of Northampton, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=contributions&sub=Universities%20-%20Michaela%20Starkey


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The Credit Crunch and Education

THE CRUNCH CHALLENGES: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH FOR EDUCATION

This is part of the Current Issues in Post-Compulsory Education seminar series at London South Bank University

These seminars should be of interest to all those working in the post-compulsory sector.


The first seminar is:

The Crunch Challenges: The Consequences of the Credit Crunch for Education
Ian McNay
13th May, 5.30-7.30
8th Floor, The Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University
Keyworth Street, London SE1 6NG

Reductions in funded student numbers in higher education, reductions in employer support, the prospect of a long-term squeeze on public funding – just some of the more obvious challenges of the credit crunch for higher education. How do we make sense of and address these challenges, including those affecting expansion, mission diversity and equity? Bring your own crunch issues to add to the agenda! Ian McNay is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Management at the University of Greenwich, London, where he was head of the School of Post-Compulsory Education and Training. Recent publications include Beyond Mass Higher Education: Building on Experience (SRHE/Open University Press, 2006) and Higher Education and Human Good (with Jennifer Bone) (Tockington Press, 2006).


Map and directions: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml


Teas and coffees will be provided at 5.30, so you must book a place by replying to:
Alison Britton
Reader in Educational Development
Director, Programme for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
London South Bank University
Education Department
Rotary Street
London
Office: Borough Road B304
Phone: 0207 815 6498
Email: alison.britton@lsbu.ac.uk


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Fire the Boss!

Fire the Boss!

Haymarket Books presents:

Fire the Boss: The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago
With the authors and editors of Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories, Lavaca Collective, foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Haymarket Books)

7 pm, May 15, 2009
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
New York City, New York
Free (seating is first come, first served)


With (list information) :

Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, writer of The Take Avi Lewis, director of The Take and host, Al Jazeera English "Fault Lines"

Claudia Acuña and Sergio Ciancaglini of Lavaca Collective in Argentina Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de Republic Windows (Chicago, Illinois)

Leah Fried, United Electrical workers union

Brendan Martin, The Working World/La Base

Including a discussion, with clips of The Take by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and selections from a documentary about The Republic

Workers' struggle

Translation provided for Spanish speakers

Followed by a book signingCo-sponsored by The Cooper Union, The Indypendent, UE, Nation Institute, and Nation Magazine

To find out more about the event, please visit: http://www.haymarke%20tbooks.org/

Directions: Cooper Union Great Hall. 7 East 7th Street New York City, New York 10003 between Third Avenue and Cooper Square (just south of Fourth Avenue) 6 train to Astor Place R, W to 8th Street - NYU

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Rouge Forum News

Rouge Forum News


Rouge Forum News, Issue 14: Call for Papers

The Rouge Forum News is an outlet for working papers, critical analysis, and grassroots news. Issue 14 of the RF News will be dedicated to papers delivered at the Rouge Forum Conference at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI.Conference presenters, if you would like your paper to be considered for Issue 14, please send your essay to Adam Renner at arenner@bellarmine.edu by June 15, 2009.


Rouge Forum News, Issue 15: Call for Papers

The Rouge Forum News is an outlet for working papers, critical analysis, and grassroots news. Issue 15 will be dedicated to our persistence in providing links between runaway capital, the rabid and rapid standardization of curriculum, the co-optation of our unions, the militarization of our youth, and the creep of irrationalism in our schools.

We are interested in work from academics, parents, teachers, and students: teachers at all levels, students in ANY grade, parents of children of any age.

Something small, something big, something serious. It is the stories we get from people like you that make the RF News what it is. If you have a story to share, but would like to protect your identity, use a pen name. Pen names are ALWAYS welcome!We NEED Art! Songs! Poems! Editorial cartoons! Links to online videos or other material!

We are looking for narratives, as well as research, and the interplay between research and practice which focuses on the economy, curriculum, unions, etc. If you have a story to tell, some research to share, a book to review, we’d love to see it (and share it).

We publish material from k-12 students, parents, teachers, academics, and community people struggling for equality and democracy in schools—writing (intended to inform/educate, or stories from your classroom, etc.), art, cartoons, photos, poetry. You can submit material for the RF News via email (text attachment, if possible) to Adam Renner at arenner@bellarmine.edu

PLEASE SUBMIT BY AUGUST 15, 2009.

See Issue 13 of the Rouge Forum News: http://richgibson.com/rouge_forum/newspaper/spring2009/index.html.

All past issues at available here: http://richgibson.com/rouge_forum/newspaper/

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It's My Birthday!

It’s My Birthday!

Yes, it’s my birthday today! Three years ago I wrote an article about why I was so pleased to have a birthday on 2nd May. The article contains other stuff too – about communism, the Red Chalk Principle and other political issues.

This article first appeared on my old AOL ‘Volumizer’ blog. Unfortunately, AOL shut down all its blogs and newsletters on 30th October 2008. Thus: I have reproduced the article at my new Volumizer blog, see: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-my-birthday.html

Glenn Rikowski
London, 2nd May 2009
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New Socialism

New Socialism: Building a Politics of Alliances for a post-New Labour mainstream Left

A SOUNDINGS SESSION AT THE COMPASS CONFERENCE
New socialism: building a politics of alliances for a post-New Labour mainstream left

1.30-2.45, Saturday 13 June
Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London


Speakers confirmed so far:
Jon Cruddas (Labour)
Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)
Salma Yaqoob (Respect)
CHAIR: Jonathan Rutherford


The Compass National Conference 2009 is on the theme ‘No turning back: a new political economy fit for the 21st century’.

Speakers include:
Neal Lawson, Jon Cruddas, Helena Kennedy, Ruth Lister, Polly Toynbee, Richard Wilkinson, Chuka Umunna, John Harris, Paul Dunne, Sam Tarry, Andrew Simms, Kate Pickett
More information: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference
Email: gavin@compassonline.org.uk


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