Teaching for Democracy and Justice in an Age of Inequality

TEACHING FOR DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF INEQUALITY

THE ROUGE FORUM CONFERENCE – 2016

May 27-28, 2016

St Mary’s University

14500 Bannister Road SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2X 1Z4

 

Website: https://rougeforumconference.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/hello-world/

Location: St. Mary’s University [map]

 

Keynote: Adam Renner Education for Social Justice Memorial Lecture
E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia

 

Conference Program: https://rougeforumconference.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/rouge-forum-program.pdf

Registration: https://rougeforumconference.wordpress.com/rf-2014-registration/

Flyer for the Conference: https://rougeforumconference.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/rouge-forum-program.pdf

 

The Rouge Forum is a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned about questions like these: How can we teach against racism, national chauvinism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain enough real power to keep our ideals and still teach–or learn? Whose interests shall school serve in a society that is ever more unequal? We are both research and action oriented. We want to learn about equality, democracy and social justice as we simultaneously struggle to bring into practice our present understanding of what that is. We seek to build a caring inclusive community which understands that an injury to one is an injury to all. At the same time, our caring community is going to need to deal decisively with an opposition that is sometimes ruthless. We hope to demonstrate that the power necessary to win greater democracy will likely rise out of an organization that unites people in new ways–across union boundaries, across community lines, across the fences of race and sex/gender. We believe that good humor and friendships are a vital part of building this kind of organization, as important as theoretical clarity. Friendships allow us to understand that action always reveals errors–the key way we learn. We chose Brer Rabbit as a symbol to underline the good cheer that rightfully guides the struggle for justice. Every part of the world is our briar patch. We had modest success in defeating the standardized test, the MEAP, in Michigan. We work in faculty organizations and unions to deal with the racism and sexism in academia. We try to press forward questions of class size, curricular freedom, anti-racist pedagogy, real inclusion, and a just tax system. As part of the Whole Schooling Consortium, we have sponsored forums in the U.S., uniting hundreds of people for democracy and equality.

The Rouge Forum holds meetings on a regular basis at both local and national levels. The national conferences have been held on a more or less annual basis; all meetings are action-oriented and the national conferences usually include workshops for teachers and students; panel discussions; community-building and cultural events; as well as academic presentations. Many prominent voices for democracy and critical pedagogy have participated in Rouge Forum meetings. On its website you’ll find the latest information about upcoming Rouge Forum meetings and conferences as well information on past conferences, including abstracts, papers, and videos.

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The SoJo Journal: Call for Papers – Issue #3

THE SOJO JOURNAL: EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION

Call for Papers: The SoJo Journal Issue #3
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is soliciting manuscripts for its third issue.

The journal welcomes manuscripts that examine contemporary educational and social contexts and practices from critical perspectives. The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is interested in research studies as well as conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and policy-analysis essays that advance educational practices that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, and (in)formal education.

 

Style Guidelines

All manuscripts must adhere to APA sixth edition format, include an abstract of 100-150 words, and range between 20 – 30 pages in length (including camera ready tables, charts, figures, and references). Two copies of the manuscript should be attached: a master copy including a title page and a blind copy with the title page and all other author-identifying information removed (including citations and references pertaining to any of the contributing authors’ works). Attachments should be in Microsoft Word.

 
Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts for publication consideration for the third issue should be submitted electronically via email by attachment by April 30, 2016 to SoJo Associate Editor, Julie Ficarra at jmficarr@syr.edu.

 

Journal Contact

 

Bradley J. Porfilio

Editor-In-Chief

The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education

California State University, East Bay

25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542

Phone: 609-339-5011

Email: bradley.porfilio@csueastbay.edu

 

Julie M. Ficarra
Associate Editor

Cultural Foundations of Education
Syracuse University

Email: jmficarr@syr.edu

 

The SoJo Journal website: http://www.infoagepub.com/the-sojo-journal

 

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An Alternative to Neo-Liberal Education – Venue Change

AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEO-LIBERAL EDUCATION – VENUE CHANGE

NOW AT THE MAYDAY ROOMS

Apologies for the short notice but unfortunately it has been necessary to change the venue for the meeting on Saturday 28 November.  This will now be held in the MAYDAY ROOMS, 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, 2.00pm – 4.30pm. 

NEW ANARCHIST RESEARCH GROUP

JOINT MEETING WITH THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTRE (LINCOLN)

Saturday 28 November 2015

Mayday Rooms

88 Fleet Street

London, EC4Y 1DH

2.00pm – 4.30pm

The Social Science Centre (SSC) in Lincoln is a self-organised co-operative higher learning provider that is democratic at all levels of its organisation. The scholars who are members of the Centre work and study together whether they are traditionally students or teachers. One of the aims of the Centre is to analyse and dissolve the tensions in the relationships between research and teaching, and students and academics. Set up by academics from the University of Lincoln, the Centre has no relationship with the University, although it is a critique of the formal institution as a dysfunctional neoliberal arrangement in many ways. The SSC aims to ‘reinvent’ the University and transform the scholars’ relationship to knowledge in order to insert their own experiences into theoretical knowledges that aim to emancipate them as active change agents. The SSC engenders provocations, conversations and discussions that enliven the notion that all those who are involved in active knowledge work should become (co-) producers of knowledge. Two of the (student) scholars and an academic from Lincoln will be visiting the Anarchist Research Group to talk about the centre and their experiences studying there.

In this session, we would like to tell you a little about our experiences with the SSC and then invite a discussion on the SSC, self-organised education and the relationships between education, learning, and social change.
The Social Science Centre provides free public higher education in the city of Lincoln and emphasises the collective and collaborative nature of education. The Centre was opened in 2011 by academics and students and Lincoln residents who feel passionately that those wishing to study higher education should not have to take on the burden of debt. There is no fee to pay when joining the Centre, only what you can afford. Free also means freedom to study outside of the current disciplinary structures of higher education around topics and issues that are of direct concern to you and your local community.

Anarchist Research Group Website: http://torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com/where-we-are/ 

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An Alternative to Neo-Liberal Education

Neoliberalism

AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEO-LIBERAL EDUCATION

NEW ANARCHIST RESEARCH GROUP

JOINT MEETING WITH THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTRE (LINCOLN)

Saturday 28 November 2015

2.00 pm – 4.30pm

The Torriano Meeting House

99 Torriano Ave

Kentish Town

LONDON, NW5 2RX

The Torriano Meeting House: https://torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com/

The Social Science Centre (SSC) in Lincoln is a self-organised co-operative higher learning provider that is democratic at all levels of its organisation. The scholars who are members of the Centre work and study together whether they are traditionally students or teachers. One of the aims of the Centre is to analyse and dissolve the tensions in the relationships between research and teaching, and students and academics. Set up by academics from the University of Lincoln, the Centre has no relationship with the University, although it is a critique of the formal institution as a dysfunctional neoliberal arrangement in many ways. The SSC aims to ‘reinvent’ the University and transform the scholars’ relationship to knowledge in order to insert their own experiences into theoretical knowledges that aim to emancipate them as active change agents. The SSC engenders provocations, conversations and discussions that enliven the notion that all those who are involved in active knowledge work should become (co-) producers of knowledge. Two of the (student) scholars and an academic from Lincoln will be visiting the Anarchist Research Group to talk about the centre and their experiences studying there.

In this session, we would like to tell you a little about our experiences with the SSC and then invite a discussion on the SSC, self-organised education and the relationships between education, learning, and social change.

The Social Science Centre provides free public higher education in the city of Lincoln and emphasises the collective and collaborative nature of education. The Centre was opened in 2011 by academics and students and Lincoln residents who feel passionately that those wishing to study higher education should not have to take on the burden of debt. There is no fee to pay when joining the Centre, only what you can afford. Free also means freedom to study outside of the current disciplinary structures of higher education around topics and issues that are of direct concern to you and your local community.

ANARCHIST RESEARCH GROUP: Our meetings are friendly and informal. They are usually held on the fourth Saturday each month, at the Torriano Meeting House in Kentish town, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RX between 2.00pm and 4.30 pm
Directions: From Kentish Town tube station walk up Leighton Road, and turn left into Torriano Avenue.

We take a collection after each meeting to cover the cost of the venue.

Website: http://torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com/where-we-are/ 

Education Crisis

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Policy Reviews in Higher Education

POLICY REVIEWS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

A NEW JOURNAL IS LAUNCHED

CALL FOR PAPERS

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF NEW POLICY JOURNAL IN HIGHER EDUCATION

With demands for a more skilled and qualified workforce, and growing calls to increase social mobility, higher education has firmly established its place on the political agenda in developed and developing countries. To provide a forum for the debates and reports that these trends are generating, the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) is launching its latest journal, Policy Reviews in Higher Education, with the first edition to be published in December 2016.

This journal is offering an entirely different space for the discussion of policy issues impacting on HE. It is to be international and interdisciplinary in scope and will publish articles of much greater depth and analysis than the usual academic journal pieces, inviting contributions of between 8,000 to 12,000 words.

This is an important and exciting new venture both for policy debate in HE globally and for SRHE. In putting our energies and resources behind this Society initiative, SRHE is signalling our responsibility as the relevant and best placed learned Society to bring more robust and considered evidence and a wider discourse to the policy debate.

This is a global call for contributions to the journal.

The first issue of Policy Reviews will be published in December 2016.

See the link below to the press release which gives more background on the journal, the details of the editors, and the journal aims and objectives.

Please do also circulate this call for contributions widely amongst your relevant networks and contacts. 

 

About Policy Reviews in Higher Education (Press Release):  http://www.srhe.ac.uk/downloads/PRIHEPressRelease.pdf

 

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The Abolition of the University

Education Crisis

THE ABOLITION OF THE UNIVERSITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Open Library of Humanities (OLM)

CFP: The Abolition of the University: Deadline: Nov 1st, 2015

Deadline: 1st November 2015

In 1968, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and his colleagues at the University of Nairobi called for the abolition of the English department. They attacked an enduring colonial legacy and envisioned an intellectual renaissance in Africa. In 2012, at the University of Glasgow: “Forty years after Ngũgĩ and his colleagues argued for it in Nairobi, the abolition of the Scottish Department was achieved by managerial diktat in Glasgow.” Two institutional interventions: the first driven by the desire to liberate education from epistemological and pedagogical domination; the second, by the neoliberal business model. This special edition seeks to consider the chequered history of the westernised university, to diagnose its embattled present, and to imagine its future.

In recent months, academics, non-academic staff, students and their allies across the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, Albania, Finland, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere, have staged protests against neoliberal reform of universities. Wendy Brown argues that the evolution of neoliberalism from a set of economic policies into mode of reason imperils not just liberal institutions but democracy itself. Education across the board is jeopardised by the corporate university model. The liberal arts face multidirectional threats, of extinction and irrelevance. Yet as Gayatri Spivak suggests, if the humanities is the ethical healthcare of society, what resources can we summon to reform, destroy, transform, or re-create the university? Or less innocently, as Bill Readings suggests, simply foster a space where academics (and students) can “work without alibis” in acknowledgement that radical possibilities are constrained by the societies in which universities are situated.

This special edition calls for a cross-disciplinary response, from the humanities and social sciences to all critical, creative and deviant positionalities. Diverse submissions are encouraged from policy reform to short stories. In particular, the edition reaches out to those who traditionally or purposefully find themselves outside the ivory towers: those not included and unassimilated.

Contributions will be considered around (but not limited to) these themes:

• The western / imperial history of the university
• Literary / creative representations of the university
• Epistemologies / pedagogies of possibility
• Western imperial humanism and the humanities
• The co-option of postcolonial / Black / queer studies and ‘minority’ / transnational / diasporic literatures
• Education in an age of neoliberalism / neo-colonialism
• New models for higher education, including cooperatives, free schools etc.
• The pedagogy of debt
• The ‘Student As Producer’
• Accelerationism and competition in the university
• Activism: Strike / Occupy / Transform (In / Against / Beyond)
• Resistance through radical poetics / humanisms

The special collection, edited by Lou Dear (University of Glasgow, l.dear.1@research.gla.ac.uk) and Martin Eve (Birkbeck, University of London, martin.eve@bbk.ac.uk), is to be published in the Open Library of Humanities (ISSN 2056-6700). The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a prestigious academic steering board. Unlike some open-access publications, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead financially supported by an international consortium of libraries.

Submissions should be made online at: https://submit.openlibhums.org/ in accordance with the author guidelines and clearly marking the entry as [“The Abolition of the University,” SPECIAL COLLECTION]. Innovative submissions that do not clearly fit the submission guidelines are welcome and we encourage authors to contact the editors to discuss this. Submissions will then undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Authors will be notified of the outcome as soon as reports are received.

See: https://www.openlibhums.org/2015/05/14/cfp-the-abolition-of-the-university-deadline-nov-1st-2015/

OPEN LIBRARY OF HUMANITIES: https://www.openlibhums.org/

 

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Ethics, Education and Teaching: Perspectives on the Teacher in Contemporary Society

ETHICS, EDUCATION AND TEACHING: PERSPECTIVES ON THE TEACHER IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Edinburgh Branch

Ethics, Education and Teaching: Perspectives on the Teacher in Contemporary Society

Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
October 2nd – 3rd, 2015

Keynote Speakers:
Nel Noddings, Professor Emerita, Stanford University
Penny Enslin, Professor, University of Glasgow
Paul Standish, Professor, Institute of Education, UCL
Tom Hamilton, Director of Education, Registration and PLD, The General Teaching Council for Scotland

This conference invites academics, teachers in schools, students and policy makers to come together to discuss the future of teaching and how philosophy can contribute to shared understandings of the teacher’s role in contemporary society.

Draft Programme
Day 1: Friday, October 2 2015
15:30 – 16:30
Registration and Coffee/Tea + Blackwell Bookstand (10% off for delegates)
16:30 – 16:45
Welcome Address: Andrea English
16:45 – 18:15 Keynote: Penny Enslin, “The Ethics of Charity”
Chair: Morwenna Griffiths

Day 2: Saturday, October 3, 2015
9:00 -10:00 Coffee/ Tea + Blackwell Bookstand
10:00 -10:15 Opening Address: Robbie Nicols
10:15-11:45 Keynote: Nel Noddings, “Care Ethics and Teaching. Teaching involves more
than instruction”
Chair: Andrea English
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:15
Keynote: Paul Standish, “Teaching exposed: Education in Denial”
Chair: TBA
2:15 – 2:30 Coffee/Tea
2:30 – 4:00
Keynote: Tom Hamilton, “Ethics, Integrity and Professional Standards for
Teachers in Scotland”
Chair: TBA
4:00 – 4:30
Closing Discussion Panel: Teacher Education in the UK and Beyond
Panelists: Morwenna Griffiths, Holly Linklater, Natasa Pantic
4:30 End

REGISTER NOW – Space is Limited: http://www.etouches.com/126005 
Fees: (incl. registration, coffee/tea and Sat. lunch, accommodation not included)
£35 standard; £29 registered teachers; £17 concessions (students/unwaged)

Organized and supported by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) in collaboration with the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Conference Organizer:
Dr Andrea R. English
Chancellor’s Fellow in Philosophy of Education
Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership
Moray House School of Education
The University of Edinburgh
Holyrood Road
Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ
Scotland
tel: +44 (0)131 651 6172
email: andrea.english@ed.ac.uk

 

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London International Conference on Education (LICE-2015)

Student Debt

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION (LICE-2015)

Call for Extended Abstracts, Papers, Speaker’s Proposals, Posters, Tutorials and Workshops!

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London International Conference on Education (LICE-2015)
November 9-11, 2015, London, UK
Venue: Heathrow Windsor Marriott Hotel
(www.liceducation.org)

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The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2015 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

Topics:

The topics in LICE-2015 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Games and Software

*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Society

*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education

*ICT Education

*Inclusive Education
*Kinesiology and Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Research In Progress
*Other Areas of Education

Submission: You can submit your research paper at http://www.liceducation.org/Paper%20Submission.html or email it to: papers-2015@liceducation.org

Important Dates:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: July 01, 2015
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: July 10, 2015

Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: July 15, 2015
Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance / Rejection: July 31, 2015
Proposal for Workshops: June 30, 2015
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: July 10, 2015
Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: July 01, 2015
Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: July 10, 2015
Camera Ready Paper Due: September 01, 2015
Participant(s) Registration (Open): May 01, 2015
Early Bird Registration Deadline: September 01, 2015
Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only) September 02 to October 27, 2015
Late Bird Registration Deadline (Participants only) September 02 to November 08, 2015
Conference Dates: November 9-11, 2015

 

For further information please visit LICE-2015 at www.liceducation.org

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Recent Additions to Academia – June 2015

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

RECENT ADDITIONS TO ACADEMIA – JUNE 2015

I have added a number of papers to Academia in the last few weeks.

This part of a long-term process of inserting all of my papers on Academia, including many that have not been published elsewhere, occasional and unfinished papers, and also a few ‘lost’ papers: i.e. those that were thought to have been lost but turned up in a search of my loft in 2012.

In addition, I have a number of hand-written papers which I will type up and put on Academia, but that process will have to wait a while.

Recent additions of mine to Academia include:

Lifelong Learning for a Learning Democracy

http://www.academia.edu/12786970/Lifelong_Learning_for_a_Learning_Democracy

What Can Schools Do? Engineering Employers and Education

https://www.academia.edu/12682454/What_Can_Schools_Do_Engineering_Employers_and_Education

Only Charybdis: The Learning Society Through Idealism

https://www.academia.edu/12674663/Only_Charybdis_The_Learning_Society_Through_Idealism

If you have any problems downloading these documents then just click onto the Green ‘Download’ button and it should work.

Best wishes

Glenn

Glenn Rikowski

London, 4^th June 2015

Email: Rikowskigr@aol.com

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The Neoliberal University: Gender, Class, and Sexuality

Education for Debt

THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY: GENDER, CLASS, AND SEXUALITY

AMSTERDAM RESEARCH CENTER GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Conference: ‘Social Class in the 21^st Century’

Panel Call for Papers: Deadline May 29^th 2015

Panel on: The Neoliberal University: Gender, Class, & Sexuality

This panel intends to investigate processes of bureaucratization and business-afication of the university and the role that these have in re-shaping the interrelations of class, gender, and sexuality; and the specific ways that the change from educational pedagogy to business model has impacted classed, gendered, and sexual practices and relationships.

The rise of neoliberalism coincided with the increase of enrollments in universities and this panel proposes to investigate these two in relation to each other. The scale of the university has increased in terms of rising numbers of students enrolled. Also, as university has become more accessible to larger numbers of citizens, the importance of higher education as a marker of class has become, relatively, more available.

In the light of these shifts, the question is how the (increasing) importance of the university as a site of emancipation takes on questions of gender norms and practices, as well as forms of sexuality.

On the one hand, universities can be seen as sites of normative structures regarding gender, sexuality, race / ethnicity, class, age and more, shaping normativity from aesthetics to (gendered) harassment on college campuses.

On the other hand, universities have also been the sites for social justice and emancipation, regarding gender and sexuality, by the way of Women’s & Gender studies, LGBT studies and Queer Theory.

This panel seeks to bring together a collection of papers on the role of the neoliberal university in shaping, marking, and creating new expressions and relations of gender, class, and sexuality. In this way, it opens up the discussion to allow for the varied ways that universities implement and allow possibly opposing development of providing spaces for emancipation as well as reproducing normative spaces in terms of gendered, sexualized and classed possibilities.

Papers should seek to elaborate on both theoretical elements and empirical cases (from the Global North and South) and aspects of the role of the university in the 21st Century and its impact on gender, class, and sexuality.

http://arcgs.uva.nl/news-events/events/social-class-conference/social-class-conference/content/folder/panels/panels/panels/content/folder/the-neoliberal-university-gender-class–sexuali.html

First Published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/conference-cfp-the-neoliberal-university

Conference Website: http://arcgs.uva.nl/news-events/events/social-class-conference/social-class-conference/content/folder/social-class-conference.html

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International Conference on Research into Higher Education

Student Debt

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION

Call for Papers

Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

SRHE Annual Research Conference 9-11 December 2015
SRHE Newer Researchers Conference 8 December 2015
Celtic Manor, Newport in South Wales, United Kingdom

 

Converging Concepts in Global Higher Education Research: Local, national and international perspectives

The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) invites research contributions to this international higher education conference. A significant body of research knowledge now exists which informs understandings locally, nationally and internationally and this conference theme examines issues of convergence, divergence and context and their potential impact across issues of policy and practice.

The annual SRHE Conference provides a stimulating international forum for papers of an empirical or scholarly nature relating to research into higher education in the widest sense and from a breadth of different disciplinary perspectives. The conference is highly participative, promoting the dissemination and exchange of ideas in a variety of formats, across a range of research domains.

 

You are invited to contribute to this debate in the following ways:

• presenting a paper (including work of a conceptual or theoretical nature)
• forming or participating in a symposium or research directions seminar
• organising a ‘round table’ discussion
• submitting a poster on any aspect of your research interests

 

Deadline for paper submissions: Friday 26th June 2015

 

SRHE Newer Researchers’ Conference 8 December 2015

The Call for papers for this one day conference for Newer Researchers will be launched shortly is on the same theme and will take place at the Celtic Manor one day in advance of the SRHE Annual Research Conference. This is an excellent event for postgraduate students and newer researchers, providing the opportunity to present research work in a nurturing environment and participate in seminars and discussions. Closing date for call for papers is Friday 10 July 2015.

Website: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2015/

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Critical Knowledge and Praxis – Reminder

Paulo Freire

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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