Open education. Common(s), commonism and the new common wealth
With Mike Neary Open Education, and specifically the Open Education Resources movement, seeks to provide universal access to knowledge, undermining the historical enclosure and increasing privatisation...
View ArticleSocial Science Imagination: Co-operation and education / week one reflections
I am a member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln, and in this term’s Social Science Imagination course, we are focusing on ‘co-operation and education‘. Gary Saunders and I wrote up an account of...
View ArticleOpen education and the emancipation of labour from teaching and learning
Abstract submitted to the CfP on ‘Critical Approaches to Open Education‘, Learning, Media and Technology journal. I have previously argued that open education is a liberal project with a focus on the...
View ArticleCall for contributions to a book on ‘Mass Intellectuality: The...
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Richard Hall and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of...
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Is the worker co-operative form suitable for a university? (Part 2)
“A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and...
View ArticleStudent as Producer (6)
See an introduction to this series of notes here. 6. Neary, Mike and Amsler, Sarah (2012) Occupy: a new pedagogy of space and time?. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10 (2) In this paper,...
View ArticleFinancialising the university: What is to be done?
Andrew McGettigan concludes his article on financialisation and higher education with: “I am frequently asked, ‘what then should be done?’ My answer is that unless academics rouse themselves and...
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Reimagining the University
Below are my notes for a keynote talk at the Reimagining the University [pdf] conference, University of Gloucester. Thank you for inviting me here today to contribute to what is clearly a growing...
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Community education, action research and Community Development Projects (CDP)
Our new ‘course’ at the Social Science Centre is a change in direction from previous courses in that it’s a research project through which participants learn how to do research. So, through an agreed...
View ArticleImagine… The transnational co-operative university
“Imagine a minimalist ‘university’, on a regional or even national scale, to which autonomous units prepare and present candidates. Why go it alone rather than help to form an open, cooperative...
View ArticleBeyond Public and Private: A Model for Co-operative Higher Education
With Mike Neary. Part of a special issue on the future of the university. The framework for a co-operative model of higher education proposed here offers a challenging perspective to the wide-ranging...
View ArticleOpen education. Common(s), commonism and the new common wealth
With Mike Neary Open Education, and specifically the Open Education Resources movement, seeks to provide universal access to knowledge, undermining the historical enclosure and increasing privatisation...
View ArticleSocial Science Imagination: Co-operation and education / week one reflections
I am a member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln, and in this term’s Social Science Imagination course, we are focusing on ‘co-operation and education‘. Gary Saunders and I wrote up an account of...
View ArticleOpen education and the emancipation of labour from teaching and learning
Abstract submitted to the CfP on ‘Critical Approaches to Open Education‘, Learning, Media and Technology journal. I have previously argued that open education is a liberal project with a focus on the...
View ArticleCall for contributions to a book on ‘Mass Intellectuality: The...
Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Richard Hall and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the worker co-operative form suitable for a university? (Part 2)
“A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and...
View ArticleStudent as Producer (6)
See an introduction to this series of notes here. 6. Neary, Mike and Amsler, Sarah (2012) Occupy: a new pedagogy of space and time?. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10 (2) In this paper,...
View ArticleFinancialising the university: What is to be done?
Andrew McGettigan concludes his article on financialisation and higher education with: “I am frequently asked, ‘what then should be done?’ My answer is that unless academics rouse themselves and...
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Community education, action research and Community Development Projects (CDP)
Our new ‘course’ at the Social Science Centre is a change in direction from previous courses in that it’s a research project through which participants learn how to do research. So, through an agreed...
View ArticleImagine… The transnational co-operative university
“Imagine a minimalist ‘university’, on a regional or even national scale, to which autonomous units prepare and present candidates. Why go it alone rather than help to form an open, cooperative...
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