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Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article

This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
Journal Article

The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.

Testing times and the thirst for data: For what? (2016)
Other

The emphasis on tests has made teachers and pupils depressed, harm themselves, and even turn suicidal. High-stakes testing and an oppressive data-drive accountability system de-humanise what should be an experience of enrichment, creativity and fun.... Read More about Testing times and the thirst for data: For what?.

The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
Journal Article

The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.