Following a successful launch at the Faculty’s post-graduate open day, applications are currently being received for the Faculty’s new full-time MPhil route in Knowledge, Power and Politics in Education. The course presents an exciting new offering in the Faculty MPhil programme, drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics shaping knowledge formation in formal, … Continue reading Our new MPhil programme: Knowledge, Power and Politics in Education
The Platform University 2, March 10th-11th 2020
10 - 11 March 2020 Lancaster University This event was originally due to take place in November 2019 and has been rearranged in solidarity with the UCU strike action taking place at the same time. Higher education is increasingly ‘platformised’. Indeed, digital platforms have become ubiquitous. They are dominant intermediaries not only in our social, … Continue reading The Platform University 2, March 10th-11th 2020
Letter from Chilean Students at the Faculty of Education
Dear fellow members and students of the Faculty of Education, As Chilean students at the Faculty of Education, we would like to share information about the current situation in our country to raise awareness and international solidarity about this social and political crisis. As you may know, we lived a cruel military dictatorship between 1973 … Continue reading Letter from Chilean Students at the Faculty of Education
The Bernstein Reading Group
The Bernstein Reading Group aims to bring together students and staff who use Bernstein in their study and hence generate a discussion about Bernstein's work at the faculty. The group's insight on Bernstein's work is on using his conceptual tools to discuss issues of globalisation, knowledge and pedagogy. First meeting: Friday 8th November from 5pm-6.30pm … Continue reading The Bernstein Reading Group
CfP: Marxism and Migration
Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2020 Editors: Genevieve Ritchie, Sara Carpenter, and Shahrzad Mojab Contact Information: marxism.and.migration@gmail.com Introduction and Scope: The present conditions of transnational migration are nothing short of alarming. Best described as a kind of social expulsion, these conditions range from migrant caravans and detained unaccompanied children in the United States to the thousands … Continue reading CfP: Marxism and Migration
