β Scribed by Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In response to this, there are widespread demands to reclaim the university and protect education as a public good, using co-operative structures. Taking an interdisciplinary and social justice perspective, the editors and contributors offer concrete examples of alternative higher education: in doing so, analysing how the future of the university can be recovered. This intersectional volume discusses a broad range of approaches to higher education while disseminating new ideas. It will be of interest and value to those disenchanted with the current state of higher education in the UK and beyond, as well as activists and policy makers.
Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Now Is the Time for Co-operative Higher Education (Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross)....Pages 1-22
Useable Pasts for a Co-operative University: As Different as Light from Darkness? (Tom Woodin)....Pages 23-43
Establishing and Sustaining Co-operative Universities and Co-operative Higher Education in International Contexts: Challenges and Possibilities (Amanda Benson, Cilla Ross)....Pages 45-66
Prefiguring the Idea of the University: What Can Be Learned from Autonomous Learning Spaces That Have Experimented with No-Fee, Alternative Forms of Higher Education in the UK? (Gary Saunders)....Pages 67-89
The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: Free, Co-operative Higher Education (Members of the SSC)....Pages 91-107
The RED Learning Co-operative: Research, Education and Development for Social Change (Fenella Porter, Tracy Walsh)....Pages 109-124
Phoenix from the Ashes: The Origins and Development of Leicester Vaughan College (Lucy Faire, Miriam Gill)....Pages 125-144
The Co-operative Intellect: Journeys in Radical Human Ecology (Luke Devlin, Svenja Meyerricks, Anne Winther)....Pages 145-167
The Co-operative as Site of Pedagogy: The Example of Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative (Pablo Perez Ruiz, Mike Shaw)....Pages 169-183
Co-operative Research and Research Co-operatives (Thomas Swann)....Pages 185-204
Massive Open Online Course u.lab: Creating Transformational Learning in Scotland (Anne Winther, Valerie Jackman, Keira Oliver)....Pages 205-225
Collaging with Co-operators: An Arts-Based Inquiry into Member Perceptions of Co-operative Higher Education (Hannah Bland)....Pages 227-246
Seeking a Co-operative University: Reconstructing Adult Education and Reclaiming Higher Education as a Public Good (Malcolm Noble, Cilla Ross)....Pages 247-256
Afterword: A Student Responds (Sally Birch)....Pages 257-261
Back Matter ....Pages 263-271
Education; Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Philosophy of Education; Educational Philosophy; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education
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