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REVOLUTIONIZING PEDAGOGY
Revolutionizing Pedagogy: Education for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neo-Liberalism
Edited by Sheila Macrine, Peter McLaren and Dave Hill
Palgrave Macmillan
Marxism and Education Series
2010
ISBN: 978-0-239-60799-6
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface: Martha Montero-Sieburth
Introduction: Sheila Macrine, Peter McLaren, and Dave Hill
PART I: FRAMEWORKS FOR ORGANIZING PEDAGOGY
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, or a Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: Resistance to Educational Reform in Chile: Jill Pinkney Pastrana
Education Rights, Education Policies and Inequality in South Africa: Salim Vally, Enver Motala, and Brian Ramadiro
Taking on the Corporatization of Public Education: What Teacher Education Can Do: Pepi Leistyna
Revolutionizing Critical Pedagogy: The Struggle against the Oppression of Neoliberalism – A Conversation with Peter McLaren: Sebastjan Leban and Peter McLaren
PART II: STRATEGIES FOR PRACTICING CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal and Neoconservative Period: Dave Hill
Hijacking Public Schooling: The Epicentre of Neo Radical Centrism: João Paraskeva
Defending Dialectics: Rethinking the Neo-Marxist Turn in Critical Education Theory: Wayne Au
Critical Teaching as the Counter-Hegemony to Neo-liberalism: John Smyth
Empowering Education: Freire, Cynicism and a Pedagogy of Action: Richard Van Heertum
Teachers Matter…Don’t They? Placing Teachers and Their Work in the Global Knowledge Economy: Susan L. Robertson
Afterword: After neoliberalism: Which way capitalism? David Hursh
List of Contributors
Index
Reviews:
“An extraordinary emancipatory work: bravely negotiating the globalized toxic ruins of neo-liberalism. This is a liberatory project that embraces building a more just and democratic social world, transforming the ashes of oppressive pedagogical practices into a universe of critical and creative revolutionary possibility.”--Karen Anijar, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
“This volume provides both a much-needed political and economic critique of the dominant neoliberal reforms in the economy and education, and a theoretical and pedagogical path towards a democratic society and schools. I commend the contributors for their intellectual and political courage.”--David Hursh, University of Rochester, and author of High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning
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TAKE BACK EDUCATION
Join the teach-in to build the resistance!
King’s College London, 27th February, 11.00am – 4.00pm
Hosted by: King’s UCU, The No Cuts @ King’s Campaign, and the London Education Activists Network
Education is under attack. Up to a third of university funding - £2.5bn – is to be cut, 30 universities could shut down and over 14,000 lecturers may lose their jobs.
Big businesses exert more and more control over the university system. Cuts in student places and higher fees could exclude many people from higher education altogether.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Education workers are lobbying for strike action, following the victory at Tower Hamlets College. Students are protesting across Europe, organising occupations to stop neoliberal reforms – and taking control of campuses for another kind of education.
This February we will be hosting a day of alternative lectures and tutorials in King’s College London to bring together staff and students to celebrate what education could be – and to prepare for the battles ahead.
Initial line up includes:
Terry Eagleton: literary critic
Michael Rosen: poet, children’s author and education campaigner
Alex Callinicos: lecturer and radical theorist
Juan Carlos Piedra: Justice For Cleaners
Activists from Ireland and Austria
Education workers who have led successful strikes
Voices from students and campaigns around the country
(Other speakers – to be announced)
Alternative Lectures and Tutorials include:
*The crisis in our universities and the battle for education
* Education for liberation – what could our education look like?
* The corporate takeover of our universities
* How do we fight for free education?
* Building fighting unions
* Education for all – challenging Islamophobia, racism and the points based immigration system
* The tasks ahead – building resistance that can win
London Education Activists Network: http://educationactionlondon.blogspot.com/
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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POPULAR EDUCATION NETWORK
ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL
The Fifth International Conference of the Popular Education Network (PEN) will take place at the University of Edinburgh, from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 April 2010, hosted by the Department of Higher and Community Education. This conference builds on the success of previous PEN conferences held in Edinburgh (2000), Barcelona (2002), Braga (2004) and Maynooth (2007).
The Popular Education Network now has about 160 members in 60 institutions in 25 countries. Membership of the network is free, and participation in PEN conferences is open to all who subscribe to the broad values and purposes of the network (see below).
The language of the conference will be English, but there will opportunities for informal translation as appropriate. Non-English speakers are welcome to attend and participate fully.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The conference is not organised around any particular theme – although certain key concerns may well emerge. For example:
· The effects of globalisation on our work;
· Sustaining political commitment and ideological coherence in hard times;
· Developing alliances and strategic collaborations;
· Radicalising research and making it ‘really useful’;
· Contesting managerialism and the culture of the accountant;
· Respecting diversity without abandoning solidarity;
· Exploiting relative autonomy;
· Working with progressive social movements;
· Developing curriculum and pedagogy;
· Using ICT in subversive and counter-hegemonic ways;
· Engaging dialectically with the politics of policy;
· Developing more democratic, creative and expressive ways of working.
The conference will be seminar/workshop-based, with the emphasis on discussion, dialogue and debate rather than simply the formal presentation of academic/research papers. In this spirit of collegiality we invite participants to present academic papers, curriculum materials, or accounts of unfinished research in progress. Please respond by completing the return slip at the end of this message and emailing it back to us by 26th February 2010. We would also welcome ideas or suggestions about anything in particular you would like to see in the conference programme - or you would wish to offer.
The conference is an opportunity for university-based teachers and researchers, and others involved in higher education, who share a common interest in popular education – many of whom work in considerable isolation in their own institutions – to meet, exchange ideas, learn from each other and enjoy some much needed solidarity and conviviality.
We hope that PEN members far and wide will be interested in participating in this conference. Please also feel free to pass on information about it to anyone else who might be interested in attending. For further information about the network and previous conferences, see the attached paper. The conference is open to all who work in higher education and who are willing to subscribe in general terms to the Popular Education Network statement of intent:
Popular education is:
• Rooted in the real interests and struggles of ordinary people
• Overtly political and critical of the status quo
• Committed to progressive social and political change in the interests of a fairer and more egalitarian society.
Popular education has the following characteristics:
• Its curriculum comes out of the concrete experience and material interests of people in communities of resistance and struggle
• Its pedagogy is collective, focused primarily on group as distinct from individual learning and development
• It attempts to forge a direct connection between education and social change.
If you are interested in a fuller account of this particular view of popular education and its relation to higher education, see Crowther J, Galloway V and Martin I (eds) (2005) Popular Education: Engaging the Academy – International Perspectives Leicester, UK: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (ISBN 1 86201 209 1), which contains several chapters based on presentations at previous PEN conferences.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT CONFERENCE
As in the past, the conference will be organised on a strictly non-commercial basis. No one will make any money out of it! Local costs will therefore be kept to an absolute minimum. The conference fee is £50. This covers room costs, paper work and food/refreshments while the conference is in session. Details about booking accommodation will be sent to those who express interest in participating. Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements.
We look forward to hearing from you – and to seeing you in Edinburgh this April!
RETURN SLIP
This is to confirm that I would like to attend the Fourth International Conference of the Popular Education Network at the University of Edinburgh from 23 to 25 April 2010.
Name:
Department/agency:
Institution/organisation:
Country:
Email address:
If you would like to lead a seminar discussion, run a workshop or take responsibility for a session for any other purpose, please give brief details:
If you have any ideas/suggestions about what you would like to see in the conference programme, please make them here:
If you can speak a language in addition to English and could help with informal translation, please indicate language(s):
Special requirements (e.g., diet, mobility, access etc)
PLEASE EMAIL THIS RETURN SLIP BACK TO JIM CROWTHER (jim.crowther@ed.ac.uk) BY 25 FEBRUARY 2010.
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MARXISM IN CULTURE: PROGRAMME FOR SPRING TERM 2010Friday 22 JanuaryDiscussion of the film Venezuela from BelowGail Day (University of Leeds)Friday 12 FebuaryMarxism and CosmopolitanismGilbert Achcar (School of Oriental & African Studies)Friday 5 MarchAdvertising and the Politics of AestheticsMichael Sayeau (University College London)Friday 26 MarchShaftesbury's Theory of Art: Substance and IdentityRichard Checketts (Royal College of Art)All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet Street, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Maggie Gray, Owen Hatherley, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie, David Mabb, Antigoni Memou, Nina Power, Pete Smith, & Alberto Toscano.For further information, contact Andrew Hemingway, at: a.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk or Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk
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BREAKING OUT FROM CRISIS INTO A GREEN AND JUST WORLD
Susan George
‘THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES’Organised by the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of LondonConvenor: Prof. Gilbert Achcar,
2009-2010Wednesday 20 January, 6:30pmSOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture TheatreDr. Susan George is an internationally known scholar-activist and “alter-globalist”; the author of a dozen widely translated books; honorary president of ATTAC-France, an organisation that campaigns for international taxation and other alternatives to neoliberal globalisation. She is Board President of the Transnational Institute (TNI), an international fellowship of scholar-activists with headquarters in Amsterdam that carries out cutting-edge analysis on critical global issues, builds alliances with grassroots social movements and develops proposals for a more sustainable and just world.Webpage: http://www.tni.org/users/susan-george
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COLD HANDS AND QUARTER MOON
Introduced by Victor Rikowski
The band members:
Victor Rikowski – Guitar & Vocals
Alex Lowther-Harris – Guitar, Banjo, Accordion & Vocals
Louie Ashton-Butler – Vocals
Nicholas Frost – Violin
Jack Rennie – Bass Guitar
William J Roberts – Hand Percussion
In the autumn of 2008, Aaron Ledbury suggested to me that some kind of jam should take place between two musicians; namely, him and me. I knew he played the ukulele and he knew that I played the guitar and bass. A month or two later, Alex Lowther-Harris, who was a banjo, guitar & synthesiser extraordinaire, joined us. We began to do some general jamming, with me on the bass, Alex on banjo and Aaron on ukulele. It was around winter 2008/spring 2009 that we began to make it a regular thing. Sunday was our compulsory weekly jam. For the rest of the year we were trying to figure out what our band/music was about and what we wanted to get out of the whole thing. We recorded quite a few of our jam sessions on Dictaphone. We were working on a big repertoire of songs; songs without lyrics in a band without a singer. Most of the songs were a bunch of chords which Aaron would jam/improvise over occasionally, with Alex and me occasionally having our own time in the spotlight. In one song I played flute and Aaron played harmonica and Alex played guitar. We often swapped, switched and sometimes even modified our instruments. Our style was a kind-of bluegrass, jamming and, predominantly, blues style. But without any singer, lyrics or main melody for all of our songs we were stuck for where to go next. But we didn’t really care. We enjoyed playing music and having fun with it. Alex and Aaron wrote the songs/chords together and I wrote the baselines along with their ideas.
Late at night one day the three of us went down to the beach on the Menai Straight between Bangor and Anglesey. It was a stone beach with huge boulders and calm water. It was very dark and very cold but it was also very beautiful. We played for about half an hour before complaining about how cold our hands were. We carried on playing nonetheless. We then noticed that the moon was quarter full. It was in memory of that magical night that the band then became Cold Hands & Quarter Moon.
The academic year came to a close. Over the summer holidays I began writing songs again. I hadn’t written a song in years and it was nice to start again. I wrote them purely for my own enjoyment but when I came back to university and played a couple of them to Aaron he said he really liked them and that he wanted to work on them for the band. From then on the band had developed a whole new perspective. We were a band that did songs. The style of the songs maintained the original blues ethic, but also added in folk and even a few punk and country influences. The band line up began to change rapidly from then on. At the beginning of the year it was just me and Aaron in the band; me on guitar and vocals and Aaron on bass. Alex didn’t seem to like the new direction of the band, so then it was just me and Aaron.
However, Aaron and I both knew that we needed more musicians/singers in order to get the band to be how we wanted it to be. The next person to join the band was Nicholas Frost, who is a really good violinist and plays for the Bangor University Orchestra. He did a great job with the songs that we had. When Nick came to his first practice he brought along with him a guy known as Louie, who is a very good singer and recently (December 2009) performed a vocal solo in the Bangor University Winter Concert. I had been thinking for a week or two about finding myself another female singer but then suddenly it struck the band as obvious; why didn’t Louie join the band? We had a second singer.
Eventually Alex came back into the band playing banjo, guitar and, very brilliantly, the accordion. It was done: the band line-up was complete. Alex began to write songs too, and writing them very quickly. We began to practice regularly and for long hours of the day, much to our housemates’ annoyance. Just when we were getting pretty tight and ready to tour the pubs and open-mike’s of Bangor, disaster struck. Aaron was being thrown out of university because of his financial difficulties concerning last year’s rent. We had lost our bassist, the bassist who had learnt and written all the bass lines for the new songs by me and Alex along with the couple of cover songs we did.
We had to find a new bassist. Jack Rennie was the next person to join the band in autumn 2009 as the bassist. We began practicing again and re-learning the songs we had already done. Before too long we were performing songs in the pubs and Open-Mike’s in Bangor. First we performed in the ‘Bell Vue’ (which was my personal favourite), and the next one we did was at ‘The Underground’ or ‘The Venue’ on Bangor High Street. The next was Open-Mike at ‘The Greek’. We did a session in the recording studio soon after that, which I was using as coursework for my music degree.
For quite some time I was thinking about having a drummer and Jack Rennie had an electric drum kit. I knew how rare/difficult it is for a band to get a drummer and so this was likely to be the only opportunity of having one but, having realized that it wouldn’t suit the aesthetics of the band, I stuck with what we had. But I still wanted some percussion in the band. I went down to the shop and bought some bongos, a tambourine and an egg shaker. Soon after this William Roberts wanted to join the band as our percussionist. So now we’ve settled for the six of us and look forward to recording more songs in the studio and performing more folk/blues/country songs in pubs and open-mike sessions.
Victor Rikowski
Cold Hands & Quarter Moon
You can hear some of the band’s session on YouTube:
'Brown Shoes' composed by Alex Lowther-Harris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ijUrtSOzQ
'Traitor' composed by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIP6SyI1X4
'Human Herbs' composed by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk
'Reverence' composed by Alex Lowther-Harris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLjpWJfHgo
'Stagnant' composed by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqTevvSQ_k
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THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION
Chris Knight, Hillel Ticktin and William Dixon debate:
THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION
Thursday 21st January, 7.15pm, Room B102, Brunei Gallery,
SOAS, University of London, Thornaugh St. WC1 (Russell Square tube)
At the next election millions will vote for pro-capitalist political parties that offer little except cutbacks and austerity. Despite economic crisis, climate chaos and disastrous wars, people see no alternative to capitalism – and revolution seems, at best, an impossible dream.
Yet all three speakers at this debate believe this situation cannot last indefinitely. Their differing interpretations of anthropology, economics and history each show that a 21st Century global revolution is a real possibility – not just a dream.
Could they be right? Come and join the debate.
Chris Knight is an anthropology lecturer, sacked for his involvement in the G20 anti-capitalist protests, and author of Blood Relations, Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.
Hillel Ticktin is editor of Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.
William Dixon is a Mute magazine contributor.
(The speakers' names link to interesting articles.)
Check the Critique and Radical Anthropology Group websites in 2010 for further meetings in London.
Please publicise widely, thanks.
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SOCIALIST STUDIES
Socialist Studies: The Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies has just published its latest issue at: http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss.This issue is a "re-launch" of the journal, featuring expanded content, a new design, additional reading and navigation tools, and an option to download or print the entire issue as a single file. We hope these changes make the journal more useful, and welcome your comments.We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,Chad D Thompson & Elaine Coburn, EditorsSocialist Studies: The Journal of the Society for Socialist StudiesVol 5, No 2 (2009)
Table of Contentshttp://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/issue/view/14Frontmatter--------Volume 5, Number Two: Frontmatter ... admin adminEditorial NoteRe-Launching Socialist StudiesElaine Coburn, Chad D ThompsonEditorialWhat is Socialism? What are Socialist Studies?Elaine CoburnArticlesPhilosophy at the Service of History: Marx and the need for critical philosophy todayJeffrey NoonanSPECIAL SECTION ON RETHINKING LENINISM: IntroductionAlex LevantLeninism: It's Not What You ThinkPaul KelloggStrategy, Meta-strategy and Anti-capitalist Activism: Rethinking Leninismby Re-reading LeninStephen D'ArcyLenin's Aggressive Unoriginality, 1914-1916Lars T LihMedia, Arts, and CultureIpsographing the Dubject; or, The Contradictions of TwitterMark A McCutcheonReview EssaysSocial Science and the Afghan War: Canadian PerspectivesJerome KlassenThe Political Economy of FoodIan HusseyBook ReviewsAziz Choudry et al. Fight Back: Workplace Justice for ImmigrantsSheila WilmotG.A. Cohen. Why Not Socialism?Frank CunninghamTerry Gibbs & Garry Leech. The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Columbia and BeyondAdam BeltonRoberto J Gonzalez. American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the HumanTerrainRyan ToewsSean P. Hier et al. Racism and Justice: Critical Dialogue on the Politics of Identity, Inequality, and ChangeAmanda GlasbeekJasmin Hristov. Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of ColombiaHenry VeltmeyerFuyuki Kurasawa. The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as PracticesElaine CoburnJudy Rebick. Transforming Power: From the Personal to the PoliticalTammy FindlayGöran Therborn. From Marxism to Post-Marxism?William K CarrollMark P Thomas. Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment StandardsBryan Mitchell EvansCalls for Papers and Proposals
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MICHAEL JACKSON, 1958-2009: A MUSICAL GENIUS
Ruth Rikowski has written a substantial new article on Michael Jackson. She analyses the nature of his phenomenal talent, his personal life and personae and the social forces making for the tragedy of his ultimate demise. Ruth draws some parallels between the life and genius of Michael Jackson and Mozart.
You can read Ruth’s article on Michael Jackson at:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=articles&sub=Michael%20Jackson
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LEARNING OUTCOMES: THE ABSURD BECOMES LOGICAL
This is the title of a topical and important new paper by John J. Crocitti, Professor of History, San Diego Mesa College which is now available at The Flow of Ideas web site.
As Professor Crocitti notes:
“Ultimately, the drive towards SLO [Student Learning Outcomes] constitutes an effort by politicians, business people, opportunist professors and bureaucrats to deskill and control academic labor in the manner that management applied Taylorism to industrial labor during the early twentieth century”
The article can be viewed at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=contributions&sub=Learning%20Outcomes
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