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.

Full details are on this web page: http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/PostgraduateResearchGrants.aspx

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Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Grant Banfield

CRITICAL REALISM FOR MARXIST SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

By Grant Banfield

Routledge

Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Education (Routledge Critical Realism)

September 22^nd 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.

Recommend to a Library: http://www.sponpress.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415629065/

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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 pedagogy. Power and Education, 7 (1).

See: http://josswinn.org/2015/03/anglia-ruskin-seminar-critical-knowledge-and-praxis/

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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Recognition and the Human Ideal

RECOGNITION AND THE HUMAN IDEAL

Philosophy Society of Great Britain

London Branch

Conceptualizing Causes for Lack of Recognition – Capacities, Costs and Understanding
Heikki Ikaheimo (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Wednesday 29 April
Institute of Education, UCL, 20 Bedford Way
Room 828
5:30-7:15

All are welcome.
Paper attached here.
Programme list for the Summer term attached here.
Inquiries: syun@ioe.ac.uk

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STUDENT DEBT

STUDENT DEBT

Berkeley Journal of Sociology

Call for Submission on Student Debt

In collaboration with Debt and Society, the Berkeley Journal of Sociology is seeking submissions about student debt. Submissions will be considered for the 2015 print edition of the BJS as well as an online series that will launch in September 2015.

In addition to short essays (less than 3,500 words), we are also seeking photo essays, illustrations, reviews, and critical replies to published content. 

Submissions must be received by June 1, 2015 and should be emailed to both submissions@berkeleyjournal.org and charlie.eaton@berkeley.edu. 

Full BJS submission guidelines can be found here.

The goals of the series are described further here.

Berkley Journal of Sociology: http://berkeleyjournal.org/

Debt& Society: http://debtandsociety.org/a-call-for-submissions-on-student-debt/

Call for Submissions: http://berkeleyjournal.org/2015/04/a-call-for-submissions-on-student-debt/

Submission Guidelines: http://berkeleyjournal.org/submissions/

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Radical Anthropology: an Introduction to Anthropology

RADICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

Summer 2015

Human language and symbolic culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, in a momentous and revolutionary upheaval whose echoes can still be heard in myths, fairy tales and ritual traditions from around the world. Topics this term range from the history of the family, through archaeoastronomy, climate science and mythology to the politics of sex and gender. In addition to lectures and workshops, the term features spectacular live shows by two of Britain's most celebrated performance artists, Marcus Coates (May 19) and Marisa Carnesky (June 23).

April 28: ‘Behind Every Good Man: Women's production and reproduction among the Hadza of Tanzania’ – Colette Berbesque

May 5: ‘Capitalism, fossil fuels and the discovery of global warming.’ – Gabriel Levy

May 12: ‘Does father absence affect children growing up?’ – Paula Sheppard

May 19: ‘Becoming animal and becoming human’ – a live show by Marcus Coates

May 26: ‘The Revolution in Rojava: Strengths and Challenges’. – Jeff Miley

June 2: ‘The Coming of the Dread: the Rastafari-Maori of New Zealand’s East Coast.’ – Dave Robinson

June 9: 'A Basque Magdalenian cave interpreted in the light of the sex-strike theory of human origins'. – Lionel Sims                                                                           

June 16: ‘A key myth from Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Mythologiques: “The Hunter Monmanéki and his  wives”’. – Chris Knight                                                                                                       

June 23: ‘Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman.’ – Marisa Carnesky

June 30: ‘Revolution, repetition and the cult of death: the burials and empty tombs of Rosa Luxemburg’ – Anthony Auerbach                                                                                          

July 7: Annual General Meeting

All talks held at the Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Rd., NW1 1HB (Euston).

All events are free but small donations welcome.

Tuesdays, 6.30–9.00pm.  More Info: radicalanthropologygroup.org

For updates on meetings and anthropology news, follow us on @radicalanthro and Facebook

First Published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/radical-anthropology-talks-london-summer-2015

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Two Additions to Academia - April 2015

Glenn Rikowski

TWO ADDITIONS TO ACADEMIA – APRIL 2015

I have added the following two papers to Academia today:

On the Capitalisation of Schools in England

See: https://www.academia.edu/11991688/On_the_Capitalisation_of_Schools_in_England

Capital’s Universe and My Space

See: https://www.academia.edu/11992285/Capitals_Universe_and_My_Space

Glenn Rikowski

London

17^th April 2015

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Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power!

Living Fire

FUEL FOR THE LIVING FIRE: LABOUR-POWER!

My article Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power! is now available at Academia.

It can be viewed at: https://www.academia.edu/11923648/Fuel_for_the_Living_Fire_Labour-Power_

It is Chapter 7 in The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work, edited by Ana C. Dinerstein and Micheal Neary, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp.179-202.

Glenn Rikowski

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CROCHET

CROCHET

For the last four months, Ruth Rikowski has been doing a lot of crochet work. Her grandmother, Elsie Vickery, was very creative and skilled regarding crochet, and Ruth has a number of examples of her grandmother’s work – some of which we have framed and hung up in our home.

Ruth maintains that, not only does her crochet work produce pleasing products which she can wear or display in the home, but the experience of doing the work is soothing and relaxing whilst also stimulating her imagination and thinking about many topics.

Here are some examples of her work:

You see further examples of Ruth’s crochet work at: http://ruthrikowskiim.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/crochet.html

Glenn Rikowski

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Glenn’s article Fuel For the Living Fire: Labour-Power! is now available at Academia, at: http://www.academia.edu/11923648/Fuel_for_the_Living_Fire_Labour-Power_