Thursday, May 28, 2015

In Defence of the School

IN DEFENCE OF THE SCHOOL
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)
London Branch
One Day Conference

In Defence of the School
Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Friday 19 June
Institute of Education, UCL, 20 Bedford Way
Room 728
10:30-16:30
All are welcome. Further details attached here.
RSVP:  syun@ioe.ac.uk

The day will comprise an initial presentation by the authors, Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons (Laboratory for Education and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), small group discussion, and then in the afternoon papers in response from Nick Peim (University of Birmingham) and Paul Standish (UCL Institute of Education), feedback from group discussion and responses from the authors.

*In Defence of the School is published as an e-book and is freely available here:
http://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/ecs/les/in-defence-of-the-school/jan-masschelein-maarten-simons-in-defence-of-the.html
To facilitate discussion participants are encouraged to read the following chapters in advance: sections 1-5 (intro), 6-7-8-9 (suspension, profanation, world, technology), 14 (politicisation), and the final section (experimentum scholae).

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Postgraduate Research Grants on European Public Finances

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS ON EUROPEAN PUBLIC FINANCES

Researchers with an interest in EU public finances are welcome to apply for a €5,000 grant to undertake a research visit to the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence, Italy.  Two grants are available.

The grant programme is organised by the European Court of Auditors, in collaboration with the Historical Archives of the EU, on the campus of the European University Institute.

The European Court of Auditors has entrusted its own historical archives, and the archives of the Audit Board (1958-1977), to the Historical Archives of the EU in Florence.

Applications from economists, historians, lawyers and public-finance specialists are very welcome.

The deadline for applications is 15 June 2015.


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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Grant Banfield

CRITICAL REALISM FOR MARXIST SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
By Grant Banfield
Routledge
September 22nd 2015 | 978-0-415-62906-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

This book offers a critical realist intervention into the field of Marxist Sociology of Education. Critical realism, as developed by British philosopher Roy Bhaskar, is known for its capacity to serve as a conceptual underlabourer to applied fields like education. Indeed, its success in clarifying and resolving thorny issues of educational theory and practice is now well established. Given critical realism’s sympathetic Marxist origins, its productive and critical engagement with Marxism has an even longer history. To date there has been little sustained attention given to the application of critical realism to Marxist educational praxis. The book addresses this gap in existing scholarship.
Its conceptual ground clearing of the field of Marxist Sociology of Education centres on two problematics well-known in the social sciences: naturalism and the structure-agency relation. Marxist theory from the days of Marx to the present is shown to also be haunted by these problematics. This has resulted in considerable tension around the meaning and nature of, for example, reform, revolution, class determinism and class struggle. With its emergence in the 1970s as a child of Western Marxism, the field continues to be an expression of these tensions that seriously limit its transformative potential. Addressing these issues and offering conceptual clarification in the interests of revolutionary educational practice, Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education provides a new perspective on education which will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

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Critical Knowledge and Praxis - REMINDER

CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRAXIS - REMINDER
ANGLIA RUSKIN SEMINAR
May 13th 2015, 3.30-6.30pm. 
Marconi Building, Room 104, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford Campus.

Professor Dave Hill and Cassie Earl and the Department of Education are delighted to invite you to a special session of the CEJ (Critical Education and Justice) Research Group at Anglia Ruskin University:

Critical Knowledge and Praxis
With Professor Mike Neary, Dr. Sarah Amsler & Dr. Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln

The seminar will explore the fate of critical knowledge and praxis and how it might have a role in progressive politics and revolutionary struggles against current injustices created and exacerbated by the violence of capitalist abstractions: Money, the State and its other institutional forms, e.g. the neoliberal university.
A key issue for the seminar will be the extent to which it is possible to operate as a critical scholar within a neo-liberal university, and to what extent it is necessary to develop other social institutions to carry through with the implications that form the substance of our work.

Reading
Amsler, S. (2014) For feminist consciousness in the academy, Special Issue on Materialist Feminisms against Neoliberalism, Politics and Culture. Sarah’s new book ‘The Education of Radical Democracy‘ will be published in April.
Neary, M. (2014) ‘Making with the University of the Future: pleasure and pedagogy in higher and higher education’.  In: J. Lea (Ed.) (2015) Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: engaging with the dimensions of practice. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Winn, J. (2015) The co-operative university: Labour, property and pedagogyPower and Education, 7 (1).


If you are coming from outside the University and need directions, please contact either Dave Hill (dave.hill@anglia.ac.uk) or Cassie Earl (cassie.earl@anglia.ac.uk)

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