DISCOURSE POWER
RESISTANCE CONFERENCE: DPR14, APRIL 8-10, 2014
Discourse Power
Resistance
DPR is an annual international conference that has been held
each Spring since 2002. The conferences began with a focus on the social,
economic, political and cultural forces that shape education policy and
practice world-wide. Over the years this broad focus has been maintained; but
what has established the international reputation of DPR has been the on-going
critical analysis of issues of social justice, and the commitment to enable
silenced and marginalized voices to be heard: discourse, power, resistance.
DPR14 - Research and
Practice: Exchange and Change
At least in the humanities and social sciences, research
needs to be reciprocal: asking questions, we are called in question, the
researcher researched; and the outcome is mutual understanding one of another.
The otherness of strangers, our essential strangeness one to another, brings us
together to new insights which are never complete but always shared: to
research is to be, in John Donne's word, involved. Research should be mutual
exchange.
All well and good! But if anything is to come of this
deepened understanding - this coming together - it needs to be political.
Research - exchange - is not enough. DPR is political because teaching,
learning and research are political: social justice requires that new
understandings lead to action. DPR14 sets out to understand and to share the
huge diversity of insights that only a truly international conference can bring
together; to take courage, with a view to making things change. This is the
praxis Karl Marx had in mind: Philosophers have only interpreted the world in
various ways; the point is to change it.
How can a conference change anything? Let us say it again:
we come together, we share our ideas and questions and concerns; we take courage,
because we need courage to challenge and change bad practice, tired conformity.
We have left on the website the abstracts that were accepted for 2013 and from
the two previous years, so as to demonstrate the conferences' on-going
commitment to sustained critical analysis leading to constructive change.
Presentations at the conference will take the form of
papers, workshops, performances, exhibitions, and posters. The conference
brings together a range of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, learners
and teachers, with ideas to share about research and practice, through single
or joint presentations or as a contribution to any of the symposia that will be
taking shape. Please keep an eye on the DPR web pages for further details.
If you have suggestions, or ideas for a contribution you
would like to discuss, please contact the conference organizer,
Jerome Satterthwaite
jnsatterthwaite@gmail.com
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Cold Hands &
Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ
(live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor , north Wales );
and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo
(new remix, and new video, 2012)
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor
Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8
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