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Policy Futures in Education: Volume 11 Number 6 (2013)

January 17, 2014 – 1:13 pm
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Tagged Academic freedom, Critical Education, Education, Education Policy, Education Research, Gert Biesta, Glenn Rikowski, Higher Education, Martin Thrupp, Marxism and Education, Michael Peters, Peter McLaren, Philip Woods, Policy Futures in Education, Ruth Rikowski, Samuel Day Fassbinder, Tina Besley
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Education Crisis

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION: VOLUME 11 NUMBER 6 (2013)

The Future of Higher Education and Academic Freedom

Now available at: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/11/issue11_6.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 6, 2013, ISSN 1478-2103

CONTENTS:

SPECIAL ISSUE The Future of Higher Education
Guest Editors: PHILIP WOODS & EDDIE BLASS

Philip Woods & Eddie Blass. Editorial. Higher Education Futures OPEN ACCESS

Anne Jasman, Eddie Blass & Steve Shelley. Becoming an Academic for the Twenty-first Century: what will count as teaching quality in higher education

Alan Montague. Review of Australian Higher Education: an Australian policy perspective

Steven Selden. Sponsored Neo-conservative Challenges to Diversity and Intercultural Competence in the US Undergraduate Curriculum

SYMPOSIUM Academic Freedom

Sandra J. Grey. Activist Academics: what future?

John O’Neill. Creative Research Ethics in the EnterpriseUniversity: what price academic freedom?

Martin Thrupp. Researching amid the Heat and Noise of Political Debate

GENERAL ARTICLES

Gert Biesta. Responsive or Responsible? Democratic Education for the Global Networked Society

Jamie Magnusson. Biosurveillance as a Terrain of Innovation in an Era of Monopoly Finance Capital

R. Adam Manley. The Policy Delphi: a method for identifying intended and unintended consequences of educational policy

Trish McMenamin. Justice for All? Special Education 2000 and the Politics of Difference

Michael A. Peters & Tina Besley. Marx and Foucault: subjectivity, employability and the crisis of youth unemployment in the great global recession

THE INTERNATIONALIST

Samuel Day Fassbinder. Interview with Peter McLaren, on his Work, on his Visit to Turkey and on Ongoing Popular Struggles

Access to the full texts of current articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription, or those whose institution has a Library subscription. There is open access for articles over 3 years old.

PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of quality papers this journal expanded to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION (single user access) Subscription to the January-December 2014 issues (including full access to ALL back numbers, including those of 2013), is available to individuals at a cost of US$60.00. If you wish to subscribe you may do so immediately at www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribePFIE.asp

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION (institution-wide access) If you are working within an institution that maintains a Library, please urge them to purchase a Library subscription so access is provided throughout your institution.

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters: mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the articles, please contact the publishers: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski have a number of articles in Policy Futures in Education. These include (and these are open access):

Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, Glenn (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Rikowski, Ruth (2006) A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.4 No.4: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=4&issue=4&year=2006&article=7_Rikowski_PFIE_4_4_web&id=205.188.117.66

Rikowski, Ruth (2008) Review Essay: ‘On Marx: An introduction to the revolutionary intellect of Karl Marx’, by Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.6 No.5, pp.653-661: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=6&issue=5&year=2008&article=11_Rikowski_PFIE_6_5_web

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Education Is Not For Sale

‘Big Data’ in Education and Learning Analytics

December 19, 2013 – 4:21 pm
Posted in Academic Stuff, Call for Papers, Critical Education, Education, Higher Education, Schools
Tagged Big Data, Education, Education Call for Papers, Education Policy, Education Research, Explain, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Analytics, Policy Futures in Education, Schools
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‘BIG DATA’ IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING ANALYTICS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Forms of analysis in education – statewide and global systems – are increasingly governed by the huge size of data sets in the order of exabytes (EB 1018 1 EB = 1000000000000000000B = 1018bytes = 1000 petabytes=I billion gigabytes) that present problems of data capture, storage, analysis and presentation. Data sets have grown in size because information is collected by ubiquitous information-sensing mobile devices, aerial sensory technologies and global digital systems. Serious questions emerge concerning who should own and have access to these big data initiatives, Another issue concerns the fact that we know little about ‘underlying empirical micro-processes that lead to the emergence of the[se] typical network characteristics of Big Data’.[1] Some analysts are suggesting that big data in online learning will provide the predictive tools they need to improve learning outcomes for personalized learning: ‘By designing a curriculum that collects data at every step of the student learning process, universities can address student needs with customized modules, assignments, feedback and learning trees in the curriculum that will promote better and richer learning.’[2]

This special issue of Policy Futures in Education (www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE) will investigate big data in education and learning analytics. Possible topics include:

– Big data and education policy
– Big data and the implications for education research
– Big data and edu-business
– Big data and schooling in democracies
– Big data and knowledge production
– Big data and school systems
– Big data and the purposes of schooling

‘It is not new that educational institutions collect and analyse data for predicting and intervening in children’s educational performance…What is new is digitising, meta-tagging and aggregating that data with many other data sets, making possible new connections, predictions and diagnoses.’ Understanding Education through Big Data, Lyndsay Grant, October 25, 2013 (hdmlcentral.net/blog/lyndsay-grant/understanding-education-through-big-data)

‘The emerging research communities in educational data mining and learning analytics are developing methods for mining and modeling the increasing amounts of fine-grained data becoming available about learners.’ Coursera – Ryan Baker

‘Big data is the foundation on which education can reinvent its business model and build the coalition of governments, businesses, and social entrepreneurs that can bring together the evidence, innovation and resources to make lifelong learning a reality for all. So the next educational superpower might be the one that can combine the hierarchy of institutions with the power of collaborative information flows and social networks.’ Big Data and PISA, Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD’s Secretary-General (oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/big-data-and-pisa.html)

Editors: Michael A. Peters (mpeters@waikato.ac.nz); Robert Lingard (r.lingard@uq.edu.au), Tina Besley (t.besley@waikato.ac.nz) and Jillian Blackmore (jillian.blackmore@deakin.edu.au).

Please send expressions of interest including a title, abstract and key texts to one of the editors by April 4, 2014. Deadline for full papers is October 10, 2014 for publication in late 2015. The Journal’s information for authors can be found at www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/howtocontribute.asp

Notes
[1] C. Snijders, U. Matzat & U.-D. Reips (2012) ‘Big Data’: big gaps of knowledge in the field of Internet, International Journal of Internet Science, 7, 1‑5. http://www.ijis.net/ijis7_1/ijis7_1_editorial.html
[2] http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/08/15/why-big-data-not-moocs-will-revolutionize-education

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo

‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

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Nearly Ten Years After: Examining Education Reform Post-Katrina

The Future of Education

NEARLY TEN YEARS AFTER: EXAMINING EDUCATION REFORM POST-KATRINA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Policy Futures in Education

NEARLY TEN YEARS AFTER: examining education reform post-Katrina
Guest Editor: LUIS MIRÓN, Loyola University New Orleans, USA

It has been almost 10 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region of the USA, wreaking in its path billions of dollars of damage and flooding 80% of buildings and homes in New Orleans. At the same time education activists, civic elites, and policymakers seized upon this crisis largely inflicted by the failures of the levee system, to enact unprecedented school reform measures. Today nearly all of the public schools in New Orleans are charter schools, semi privately led entities, which enjoy considerable autonomy to redesign curricula, contract with outside vendors to fiscally manage and operate the schools, hire and fire teachers and school leaders, and set pay scales largely as they see fit. As the New Orleans model gains traction nationally, this near-tenth anniversary of the storm presents an ideal opportunity to assess on balance, whether or not these reform have largely benefited or hurt students, their families, and the communities that their schools serve.

This Special Issue of Policy Futures in Education (www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE) proposes to examine nearly a decade following Hurricane Katrina, both the educational and social consequences of the devastating man-made disaster, as well as its symbolic meaning. In particular the selection of invited articles will seek to analytically assess the claims of proponents and opponents of school reform and ‘ universal school choice.’ The latter includes the proliferation of charter schools, which, collectively, comprise nearly 90% of all public schools in New Orleans. Nearly Ten Years After will also seek to determine theoretically what these reforms and their long-term societal consequences might mean for specific populations.

The substantive issues that this special issue will address include but are not limited to the following:
– Quantitative and qualitative impacts on student achievement.
– The effects of ‘universal choice’ on students and families.
– The use of MGOs (management governance organizations).
– Privatization
– Unionization/collective bargaining
– National/international implications of the New Orleans model
– Spatial dynamics (geographical)
– Comparative case studies (e.g. Detroit and New Orleans)
– Neo-liberal trends
– African-American diaspora
– The meaning of ‘public education’
– The future of school reform

Deadline for the final draft of your paper is January 6, 2014. However, if you would find it helpful, please send a draft of your article by November 15, and the Guest Editor will provide feedback for any suggested revisions.

Please send contributions to: lfmiron@gmail.com

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ 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

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Policy Futures in Education – Volume 11 Number 4 (2013)

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION – VOLUME 11 NUMBER 4 (2013)

Now available at: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/11/issue11_4.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 4 2013 ISSN 1478-2103

CONTENTS:

Mara Westling Allodi. Simple-minded Accountability Measures Create Failing Schools in Disadvantaged Contexts: a case study of a Swedish junior high school

Sardar M. Anwaruddin. NeoliberalUniversities and the Education of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Bangladesh

Ruth Boyask, Arnet Donkin, Sue Waite & Hazel Lawson. Autonomy and Governance in Local Authority Provision for Children and Young People

Adam Davidson-Harden. What Is Social Sciences and Humanities Research ‘Worth’? Neoliberalism and the Framing of Social Sciences and Humanities Work in Canada

Vera Lucia Felicetti, Marilia Costa Morosini & Patricia Somers. Affirmative Action in the Quality of Higher Education: the voices of graduates of the University for All program

Sarina Molina & Heather Lattimer. Defining Global Education

Noah De Lissovoy. Pedagogy of the Impossible: neoliberalism and the ideology of accountability

Vassiliki Papatsiba. The Idea of Collaboration in the Academy: its epistemic and social potentials and risks for knowledge generation

Ronald Barnett. Potentials and Risks of Collaboration: two sides of the same coin or the same side of the coin? A Response to Vassiliki Papatsiba

Jenny Ozga. Acts of Construction: the conditions of collaboration. A Response to Vassiliki Papatsiba

Johanna Ringarp. From Bildung to Entrepreneurship: trends in education policy in Sweden

THE INTERNATIONALIST
Peter McLaren. Farewell to the Man in the Red Beret, Enter the Man in the White Silk Mitre: ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’

BOOK REVIEWS
Re-shaping Education for Citizenship: democratic national citizenship in Hong Kong (Pak-Sang Lai & Michael Byram), reviewed by Liz Jackson
Makiguchi and Gandhi: their educational relevance for the 21st century (Namrata Sharma), reviewed by Yueh-Mei Lin

Access to the full texts of current articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription, or those whose institution has a Library subscription. There is open access for older articles.

PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of quality papers this journal will expand to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION (single user access) Subscription to the January-December 2013 issues (including full access to ALL back numbers), is available to individuals at a cost of US$54.00. If you wish to subscribe you may do so immediately at www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribePFIE.asp

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters: mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the articles, please contact the publishers: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

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Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski have a number of articles in Policy Futures in Education. These include:

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ 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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The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Policy Futures in Education: Volume 11 Number 3 (2013)

June 1, 2013 – 3:14 pm
Posted in Academic Stuff, Education, Higher Education, Journals, Philosophy of Education, Schools
Tagged Educatin, Education Policy, Educators, Glenn Rikowski, Guy Tchibozo, Higher Education, Michael Peters, Philosophy of Education, Policy Futures in Education, Ruth Rikowski, Schools, Teachers
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Education Crisis

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION: VOLUME 11 NIMBER 3 (2013)

Now available at: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/11/issue11_3.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 3 2013 ISSN 1478-2103

SPECIAL ISSUE

EDUCATORS’ WORK: between community service, professional improvement and personal development
Guest Editor: GUY TCHIBOZO

CONTENTS:

Guy Tchibozo. Editorial. Educators’ Work: between community service, professional improvement and personal development [OPEN ACCESS]

Jean-François Marcel. Critical Approach to the Contribution Made by Education Research to the Social Construction of the Value of Teaching Work

Sissel-Tove Olsen. Support to Teachers in a Context of Educational Change and Poverty: a case study from South Africa

Lisa Shoaf, Ted Zigler & Robert Beebe. Building Cohesive Leadership Development

Christian Bégin & Laetitia Gérard. The Role of Supervisors in Light of the Experience of Doctoral Students

Sacha Kiffer & Guy Tchibozo. Developing the Teaching Competences of Novice Faculty Members: a review of international literature

Limin Jao. Peer Coaching as a Model for Professional Development in the Elementary Mathematics Context: challenges, needs and rewards

GENERAL ARTICLE

Periklis Pavlidis. The Ideal of Education and the Emancipation of Labour

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

Michael Surbaugh, Sarah Desroches & Clarence W. Joldersma. Consuming Schools: commercialism and the end of politics. With a Response by Trevor Norris

Access to the full texts of current articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription, or those whose institution has a Library subscription. Open access for articles over three years old: i.e. 2009 and previous.

PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of quality papers this journal will expand its frequency to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters: mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the articles, please contact the publishers: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

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Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski have a number of articles in Policy Futures in Education. These include:

Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178 http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ 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

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Policy Futures in Education: Volume 11 Number 2 (2013)

May 25, 2013 – 12:54 pm
Posted in Academic Stuff, Critical Education, Critical Education Policy Studies, Education, Higher Education, Journals, Schools, Socialism
Tagged Deb Hill, Education, Education Policy, Education Research, Higher Education, Mike Cole, Nicola Spawls, Policy Futures in Education, Schools, Socialism
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Precarious Education

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION – VOLUME 11 NUMBER 2 (2013)

Now available at: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/11/issue11_2.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 2 2013 ISSN 1478-2103

CONTENTS:

Cornelia Gräsel, Inka Bormann, Kerstin Schütte, Kati Trempler & Robert Fischbach. Outlook on Research in Education for Sustainable Development

Mike Cole. Racism, the Left and Twenty-first-century Socialism: some observations on the Gur-Ze’ev/McLaren interchange

Ruben Gentry. Roles for Educators in Helping the USA Form a Real Global Society

Deb J. Hill & Lynley Tulloch. Can Market Capitalism be Greened? Environmental Education Revisited

Ariful Haq Kabir. Neoliberalism, Policy Reforms and Higher Education in Bangladesh

Paul Miller, Kemesha Kelly & Nicola Spawls. Getting Past the Gatekeeper: safeguarding and access issues in researching HIV+ children in Jamaica

Herner Saeverot. On the Need to Ask Educational Questions about Education: an interview with Gert Biesta

Jan Vanhoof & Paul Mahieu. Local Knowledge Brokerage for Data-Driven Policy and Practice in Education

Chuan-Rong Yeh. Existential Thoughts in Fanon’s Post-colonialism Discourse

REVIEW ESSAY
Ricardo D. Rosa. European Higher Education and Corporate Designs of Utopia

Access to the full texts of current articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription, or those whose institution has a Library subscription. PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of high quality papers this journal will expand to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters: mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the articles, please contact the publishers: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

*****

Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski have a number of articles in Policy Futures in Education. These include:

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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

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Social Policy, Risk and Education

Education Crisis

SOCIAL POLICY, RISK AND EDUCATION

CALL FOR PAPERS

Social Policy, Risk, and Education

This special issue of the journal Policy Futures in Education – www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE – takes the broad lens of risk as its point of departure and invite empirical and theoretical papers which focus on the ways in which risk is enacted through and within education. Risk has become a central discourse – a cultural mindset – in modern societies which frames identities and organizes the governance of individuals and populations. The neoliberal, deregulated state, which emphasizes market-based solutions to the distribution of social goods, has collapsed economic and social policy: the paramount reality is competition and risk. Risk in multifarious settings now dominates social, political and economic discourse.

In a world where uncertainty and harm are governed through risk assessment and risk management, it is no surprise that educational policy similarly aligns loss, injury, and disadvantage with educational management strategies. American education, largely associated with formal schooling, has long embraced the concept of risk (e.g. ‘at-risk children’ and ‘a nation at risk’) as the basis for securing the nation’s economic future competitiveness. Public program initiatives such as Head Start are fashioned upon the perception of a perilous future, and attempt to assess and manage negative risks to children and society, as do the policies of many private intervention programs. Similarly, school-age children, from kindergarten through high school, are systematically identified as ‘at risk’ and targeted for academic and social intervention. While the US Department of Education’s ‘A Nation At Risk’ predated Beck’s risk society, the ‘at risk’ child can only be imagined within a risk society. Conversely, both official and unofficial educational sites are also governed by risk, but individual identities are frequently portrayed as ‘risk takers’. Here, risk is aligned with well-being and the enterprising self. Learning to skydive or rock climb, taking a challenging class, ‘having a go’ at spelling a new word, or returning to college to transition a career indicates a life worth living.

The purpose of this themed issue is to bring together international and critical perspectives on risk theory and education in both formal and informal settings.

All papers submitted will be evaluated using the journal’s normal peer review process. Please also see the journal’s guidance for authors: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/howtocontribute.asp

Publication for the special issue is planned for 2014. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013. Papers should be sent as an email attachment to the Guest Editor, Policy Futures in Education, Professor Steve Bialostok, College of Education, University of Wyoming: stevebialostok@yahoo.com

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‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Open Science Economy – Second Call for Papers

April 5, 2013 – 10:09 pm
Posted in Academic Stuff, Call for Papers, Economics, Education, Higher Education, Journals, Science
Tagged Call for Papers, Economics, Education, Knowledge, Knowledge Economy, Michael Peters, Open Access Publishing, Open Science Economy, Policy Futures in Education, Science
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OPEN SCIENCE ECONOMY – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Policy Futures in Education – www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS for a special journal issue on the theme

OPEN SCIENCE ECONOMY : creativity, collaboration and the commons

The open-science economy (OSE) is a rapidly growing sector of the global knowledge economy utilizing open-source models and its multiple applications (e.g. open access, open archiving, open publishing, open repositories) in distributed knowledge and learning systems. This rich-text, highly interactive, user-generated OSE has seen linear models of knowledge production give way to more diffuse, open-ended, decentralized, and serendipitous knowledge processes based on open innovation and technology. These peer-to-peer distributed knowledge systems rival the scope and quality of traditional proprietary products through the diffusion speed and global access of open-source projects, especially in both software and open-source biology.

OSE encourages innovation-smart processes based on the radical non-propertarian sharing of content, cloud data computing, and the leveraging of cross-border international exchanges and collaborations. Furthermore, it encourages a culture of distributed, collaborative, decentralized model research that is genuinely participatory, involving the wider public and amateur scientists along with experts in the social mode of open knowledge production.

OSE provides an alternative to the intellectual property approach to dealing with difficult problems in the allocation of resources for the production and distribution of knowledge and information. Increasingly, portal-based knowledge environments and global science gateways support collaborative science. Open-source informatics enables knowledge grids that interconnect science communities, databases, and new computational tools. Open science is seen as a means for revitalizing public institutions and for developing scientific creativity and innovation at a global level through international collaboration. This special journal issue explores the concept of “open science economy”, its dimensions and its significance.

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2013

Please send expressions of interest including a title and abstract to
Professor Michael A. Peters at mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

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‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski

Online Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski

Social Policy, Risk and Education – Call for Papers

Economics

SOCIAL POLICY, RISK AND EDUCATION – CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Social Policy, Risk, and Education

This special issue of the journal Policy Futures in Education (www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE) takes the broad lens of risk as its point of departure and invites empirical and theoretical papers which focus on the ways in which risk is enacted through and within education. Risk has become a central discourse – a cultural mindset – in modern societies which frames identities and organizes the governance of individuals and populations. The neoliberal, deregulated state, which emphasizes market-based solutions to the distribution of social goods, has collapsed economic and social policy: the paramount reality is competition and risk. Risk in multifarious settings now dominates social, political and economic discourse.

In a world where uncertainty and harm are governed through risk assessment and risk management, it is no surprise that educational policy similarly aligns loss, injury, and disadvantage with educational management strategies. American education, largely associated with formal schooling, has long embraced the concept of risk (e.g. ‘at-risk children’ and ‘a nation at risk’) as the basis for securing the nation’s economic future competitiveness. Public program initiatives such as Head Start are fashioned upon the perception of a perilous future, and attempt to assess and manage negative risks to children and society, as do the policies of many private intervention programs. Similarly, school-age children, from kindergarten through high school, are systematically identified as ‘at risk’ and targeted for academic and social intervention. While the US Department of Education’s ‘A Nation At Risk’ predated Beck’s risk society, the ‘at risk’ child can only be imagined within a risk society. Conversely, both official and unofficial educational sites are also governed by risk, but individual identities are frequently portrayed as ‘risk takers’. Here, risk is aligned with well-being and the enterprising self. Learning to skydive or rock climb, taking a challenging class, ‘having a go’ at spelling a new word, or returning to college to transition a career indicates a life worth living.

The purpose of this themed issue is to bring together international and critical perspectives on risk theory and education in both formal and informal settings.

All papers submitted will be evaluated using the journal’s normal peer review process.

Please also see the journal’s information for authors: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/howtocontribute.asp

Publication for the special issue is planned for 2013. Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2013. Papers should be sent as an email attachment to the Guest Editor, Policy Futures in Education, Professor Steve Bialostok, College of Education, University of Wyoming: smb@uwy.edu

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Policy Futures in Education: Volume 11 Number 1 (2013)

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION: VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 (2013)

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POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 1 2013, ISSN 1478-2103

CONTENTS:

Enma Campozano Aviles & Maarten Simons. To be Accountable in Neoliberal Times: an exploration of educational policy in Ecuador

Iris Haapanen. Three Methods of Enhancing Global Educational Awareness for Future Teachers

Kirti Joshi, Kavita Mehra, Suman Govil & Nitu Singh. Biotechnology Education in India: an overview

Reijo Kupiainen. Dissolving the School Space: young people’s media production in and outside of school

Alexander Means. Creativity and the Biopolitical Commons in Secondary and Higher Education

Maria Nikolakaki. Pedagogical Systems and the Construction of the Primary School Teacher in the Teachers’ Training Institution (Didaskalio) in Greece (1830 1933): issues of power and governmentality

Johan Nordensvard. Using Political Metaphors to Understand Educational Policy in Developing Countries: the case of Ghana and informal communities

Erdal Toprakçı, Serkan Buldur, Ebru Bozpolat, Gülçin Oflaz, İclal Dağdeviren & Ersin Türe. The Philosophy of Turkish National and Higher Education

Lynley Tulloch. On Science, Ecology and Environmentalism
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PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of quality papers this journal will expand to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

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Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski have a number of articles in Policy Futures in Education. These include:

Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178 http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, Glenn (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Rikowski, Ruth (2006) A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.4 No.4: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=4&issue=4&year=2006&article=7_Rikowski_PFIE_4_4_web&id=205.188.117.66

Rikowski, Ruth (2008) Review Essay: ‘On Marx: An introduction to the revolutionary intellect of Karl Marx’, by Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education,Vol.6 No.5, pp.653-661: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=6&issue=5&year=2008&article=11_Rikowski_PFIE_6_5_web

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Islam and the End of European Multiculturalism – Call for Papers

February 1, 2013 – 2:15 pm
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Multiculturalism

ISLAM AND THE END OF EUROPEAN MULTICULTIRALISM – CALL FR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

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SPECIAL ISSUE

ISLAM AND THE END OF EUROPEAN MULTICULTURALISM

Multiculturalism has been the dominant paradigm for the West since the 1960s influencing a range of policies from international development, immigration to democracy promotion. Over the decade or so since 9/11 and against the background of the Iraq War, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Madrid and London, and a number of other critical incidents, Europe has officially turned away from the doctrine of state multiculturalism. In 2010 Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism in Germany had ‘failed utterly’ and indicated that it was an illusion to think that German and ‘gastarbeiters’ or guest workers could live happily together. Merkel’s stance was repeated by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2011 who commented that ‘We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.’ Merkel’s and Sarkozy’s comments were quickly supported by former prime ministers for Australia and Spain John Howard and Jose Maria Aznar.

On 5th February 2011, the British Prime Minister David Cameron echoed the criticisms of state multiculturalism arguing ‘Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream. We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values’. Cameron’s talk was aimed at Islamic extremism and the process of radicalization while being careful not to lump all Muslims together. He too focused on the need for identity with core liberal values of host societies: ‘we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and a much more active, muscular liberalism’. Partly as a response, in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, there emerged a call for ‘integration’ and for a ‘community cohesion agenda’ comprised of tougher immigration and deportment laws, citizenship tests, compulsory citizenship education, and new employment policies giving preference to British workers. The combined impact of the Iraq war, the Abu-Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay abuses and the ‘war on terror’ have been highly damaging to Muslim minorities leading to claims of social exclusion, discrimination and abrogation of identity rights. At the same time political Islam is in a state of radical transformation with the events of the Arab Spring and a spate of revolutionary protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen that have forced traditional rulers from power with other protests throughout the Arab world. This special issue investigates the end of European multiculturalism against this contemporary political backdrop.

Deadline extended

Please send expressions of interest in contributing to this special issue of Policy Futures in Education in the form of a title and abstract to Michael A. Peters mpeters@waikato.ac.nz by the end of March 2013.

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Policy Futures in Education: Volume 10 Issue 5 (2012)

October 10, 2012 – 12:23 pm
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Tagged Caitlin Donnelly, Education, Education Policy, Education Research, Faith Schools, Gerald Grace, Michael A. Peters, Michael Peters, Philosophy of Education, Policy Futures in Education, Religion, Religious Schools, Schools
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Education Crisis

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION: VOLUME 10 ISSUE 5 (2012)

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POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION

Volume 10 Number 5, 2012, ISSN 1478-2103

SPECIAL ISSUE

The School in the Plural and Divided Society

Guest Editors: JOANNE HUGHES & CAITLIN DONNELLY

Joanne Hughes & Caitlin Donnelly. Introduction. The School in the Plural and Divided Society

Gerald Grace. Faith Schools: democracy, human rights and social cohesion

John Flint. Catholic Schools and Sectarianism in Scotland: educational places and the production and negotiation of urban space

Andrew B. Morris. Faith Schools and the Plural Society: exploring notions of diversity in school provision in England

Joanne Hughes, Simon Lolliot, Miles Hewstone, Katharina Schmid & Karen Carlisle. Sharing Classes between Separate Schools: a mechanism for improving inter-group relations in Northern Ireland?

Caitlin Donnelly. Defending Identity and Ethos: an analysis of teacher perceptions of school collaboration in Northern Ireland

Zvi Bekerman. Teachers’ ‘Contact’ at the Integrated Bilingual Schools in Israel

GENERAL ARTICLES

Michael A. Peters. Anger and Political Culture: a time for outrage!

Carol Mutch. Complementary Evaluation: the development of a conceptual framework to integrate external and internal evaluation in the New Zealand school context

Alan Cottey. The Wisdom of Sages: nuclear physics education, knowledge-inquiry, and wisdom-inquiry

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For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters (mpeters@waikato.ac.nz).

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Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178:http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, Glenn (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at:http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Rikowski, Ruth (2006) A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.4 No.4: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=4&issue=4&year=2006&article=7_Rikowski_PFIE_4_4_web&id=205.188.117.66

Rikowski, Ruth (2008) Review Essay: ‘On Marx: An introduction to the revolutionary intellect of Karl Marx’, by Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education,Vol.6 No.5, pp.653-661: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=6&issue=5&year=2008&article=11_Rikowski_PFIE_6_5_web

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