You are invited to join us for the launch of our new books: “Learning and Teaching British Values” by Dr Sadia Habib and “Children’s Literature about Refugees” by Dr Julia Hope. Two Goldsmiths alumni are holding a joint book… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘education’
Call for Chapters: Bourdieu, curriculum studies, education policy and reform
Co-editors James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Shaun Rawolle (Deakin University) Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989) Call for chapters This proposed book aims to bring together scholars that take as… Read More ›
The Neoliberal Masculine Logic: Skilled Migration, International Students, and the Indian ‘Other’ in Australia
By Michiel Baas This chapter analyses how a neoliberal masculine logic permeates discussion of Australia’s “education industry” and associated skilled migration program. Indian students play a key role in this. It is generally agreed that the initial phenomenal growth in… Read More ›
Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Masculinities among Black African boys in London
By Derron O. Wallace In post-Brexit Britain, who considers the impact of the aspiration agenda on ethnic minority young people –particularly Black boys? What is the role of Black boys in building the ‘aspiration nation’? Better still, what is the… Read More ›
Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age
By Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl In this chapter we argue for approaches to researching and imagining aspiration that reflect the complexities of masculinities. We suggest that future academic work on boys’ aspirations adopts an intersectional approach to considering the… Read More ›
“I Want To Be a Soccer Player or a Mathematician”: Fifth-Grade Black Boys’ Aspirations at a “Neoliberal” Single-Sex School
By Joseph Derrick Nelson For over a decade, amid widespread neoliberal education reform in the United States, single-sex schools for boys of color have increased in popularity among urban school districts. The growing interest in this school model is… Read More ›
(Re)masculinizing “Suzhi Jiaoyu” (Education for Quality): Aspirational Values of Modernity in Neoliberal China
By Xiaodong Lin and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill In December 2016, China published a gender specific textbook for boys, aiming to help male pupils understand their gender roles in society. It emphasizes the issue of masculinity and addresses the question… Read More ›
White Working-Class Boys in the Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the “Aspiration-Raising” Agenda
by Sam Baars The great meritocracy When she became British prime Minister in July 2016, the core narrative of Teresa May’s premiership was quick to emerge: “I want Britain to be the world’s great meritocracy – a country where everyone has… Read More ›
Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York Cities
by Patrick Alexander What do you want to be when you finally grow up? In 2014, on a humid September morning, I boarded a crowded subway train to arrive at the New York City public high school where I would… Read More ›
The Return of School Discipline – why children should be free.
by Deborah Talbot No, not canes and shouting, but something altogether more subtle and certainly troubling. It has been reported that St George the Martyr Primary School in London has a policy whereby children, when they walk in corridors, have… Read More ›
Sociological Catalysts and Operationalising Theory in Practice
by Yusef Bakkali Life as an academic can be a lonely and alienating calling at the best of times; lots of time spent inside one’s own head reflecting on a world playing out someplace beyond the indiscernible turrets and bulwarks… Read More ›
Call for Abstracts: Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging
BSA Sociological Futures Proposal Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging Edited by: Garth Stahl, PhD Sadia Habib, PhD Mike Ward, PhD This proposed edited collection draws on interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young… Read More ›
CfP – Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures For the Fall 2017 issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 10), the editors invite original contributions to the wide and dynamic fields of contemporary boys’… Read More ›
Going to extremes: How radical are you? Art education & British values
by Carol Wild Semantic satiation refers to the making strange of words by continual repetition until they become meaningless. Within the discourse surrounding the Fundamental British Values (FBV) since their introduction into schools in 2014 words such as extremism and… Read More ›
Call for Papers (CfP): VI. International Conference on Critical Education
VI. International Conference on Critical Education 10-13 August 2016, London, UK Dialogue, Solidarity and Resistance against Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Education The International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), previously held in Athens (2011, 2012), Ankara (2013), Thessaloniki (2014) and Wroclaw, Poland… Read More ›
21st Century Salute to my Heroine Quartet
by Natty Mark Samuels On this Saturday evening, I sit relaxing in joyful thought, wishing that the next time I go to Ghana, I get to hear Dr. Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah speak. I wish I could have been there, at… Read More ›
Book Review: Diversity, Equality and Achievement in Education (Knowles & Lander, 2011)
reviewed by Sadia Habib Diversity, Equality and Achievement in Education by Gianna Knowles and Vini Lander (Sage, 2011) Intentional and unintentional racism is very much still a part of today’s society experienced by people of colour in everyday situations… Read More ›
‘Othering’ in Education
by Tait Coles This week David Cameron (your prime minister) suggested that English language classes for Muslim women could help stop radicalisation. Yes, you read that correctly. He went on to explain that Muslims arriving in the UK on a… Read More ›
Call for book proposals: Theory as method in education research
From Mark Murphy at Social Theory Applied: I am currently in negotiations with a book publisher regarding a potential book series on the topic: Theory as method in education research. I am keen to talk to those of you who are… Read More ›
PhD-course: Education for social justice in education – human rights and intersectionality
In this intensive seminar for doctoral candidates (5 ECTs), we examine how the concepts of human rights and intersectionality might together inform educational theory and praxis to enable social justice. It is open to international participants researching educational inequalities in… Read More ›
Book Review: Muslims, Schooling & The Question of Self-Segregation
reviewed by Sadia Habib Muslims, Schooling & The Question of Self-Segregation by Dr Shamim Miah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Muslims and education are frequently ‘hot topics’ in media and political discourses. Academics have highlighted how pessimistic media and political rhetoric about… Read More ›
PREVENT will have a chilling effect on open debate, free speech and political dissent
The Independent carries a letter from academics collectively critiquing (the already many times discredited) Prevent strategy which has now become a statutory duty directly affecting places of education. “In an unprecedented intervention, 280 academics, lawyers and public figures… Read More ›
‘Prevent’ing Schooling: Muslims, Securitisation and Racialised Politics (Part 1)
by Dr Shamim Miah Don’t BELIEVE THE HYPE Don’t, don’t, don’t Don’t, don’t, don’t Back, caught you looking for the same thing It’s a new thing, check out this I bring Uhh, oh, the roll below the level, cause I’m… Read More ›
#CharlestonSyllabus: Readings and Resources
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Charleston, there were politicians attempting to deny the racist nature of the terror that struck the Black people of Charleston, while educators were working hard to challenge the spurious notions of a post-racial USA… Read More ›
New perspectives on class, inequalities and families
BSA Teaching Group Regional Conference New perspectives on class, inequalities and families Friday 29 May 2015 University of East London US.G.17, University Square, Stratford 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF http://www.uel.ac.uk/about/campuses/uss/ Programme 9.30 Registration, tea & coffee 10.00 Prof Corinne… Read More ›
Queering ESOL: towards a cultural politics of LGBT politics in the ESOL classroom
‘Queering ESOL: towards a cultural politics of LGBT politics in the ESOL classroom’ UCL Institute of Education 19 – 20 June 2015 For info about previous seminars go to:https://queeringesol.wordpress.com/ Plenary speakers Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Federal University of Rio… Read More ›
Boyhood in Neoliberal Times: The ‘Crisis of Masculinity’ Debate, Post-industrialisation, and Identity Work
by Garth Stahl In the late 20th/early 21st century, many scholars (Mac an Ghaill, 1994; Fine, Weis, Addelston, & Marusza, 1997; Weis, 2004; Nayak, 2003; 2006) have cited the massive societal shifts in economic and gender-relations which have resulted in… Read More ›
Dear academic hive mind, please help me identify radical education projects in the UK
A few years ago I produced a list of all the radical education projects that sprang up in the wake of the government’s agenda for higher education ‘reform’. I didn’t really have a clear definition of ‘radical education projects’ beyond… Read More ›
How obsessive auditing produces “a profession which is incompatible with a normal life”
80% of new teachers in 2005 were still teaching after their first year. In 2015 that has shrunk to just 62%, coupled with record numbers leaving mid career. In the intervening period, we’ve seen successive governments seek to transform schooling… Read More ›
Heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest
This expression by Will Davies has stuck with me since I read it a few months ago. Teaching is a disturbing example of the process Will is alluding to: ratcheting up demands on staff to the point where many are… Read More ›