Issue 78, January to March 2015
UCU Charter A reprint of the University and College Union FE and Adult Education Charter. Over 3.5 million people take part in further and adult education each year.
Towards valid general education Our own 10 point list for readers’ comments.
The roots and stunted growth of general education in vocational FHE courses Colin Waugh examines GE, from its past through to an uncertain future..
Working with the digital natives Roy Stafford makes the case for the right of students to a form of media education that integrates digital literacy with critical analysis.
Co-operation and education Sarah Amsler reviews Tom Woodkin’s (ed.) Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values: Contemporary Issues in Education (Routledge 2014).
Plebs: learning how to win Keith Venables discusses the network to promote independent working class education, http://iwceducation.co.uk
Towards an IWCE Network Manifesto Further contributions from Frances Thorp and John Halstead.
Mental health: challenging the stigma and ending discrimination Stephen Lambert highlights the issues.
IWCEN manifesto: readers’ input welcomed! The Independent Working Class Education Network (IWCEN), set up following interest in PSE’s occasional publication ‘Plebs: The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education’, is compiling a manifesto. Comments are welcome via their website: http://iwceducation.co.uk
Issue 79 TBC
Issue 80, July to September 2015
FE teachers, broken funding and dissent Rob Smith examines the state of FE and dissent within.
Why class still influences educational achievement The role of socio-economic status in schools, by Stephen Lambert .
Is there a ‘ruling class’? Perhaps not, suggests Stephen Lambert.
Reviews: UK FE and US community colleges Patrick Ainley reviews ‘The Coming of Age for FE? Reflections on the past and the future role of further education colleges in England’ (Ann Hodgson (ed.) 2015), and’John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education’ (Clifford P. Harbour, 2015).
Review: Blair: what lies behind the mask? Cliff Jones reviews Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan’s ‘Blair Inc.: The Man Behind the Mask (2015).
Dialogue on disruption Merv Lebor and Sandra Rennie discuss disruptive behaviour in the classroom.
Obituary: George Clarke 1924-2015: NULC organiser and TU educator Richard Ross celebrates the life of one of the last organisers for the National Council of Labour Colleges, and recalss an interview in 2012 ‘The Union Makes Us Strong’ (transcript at www.unionhistory.info)
Why rebuild IWCE? Colin Waugh introduces a section of a new PSE pamphlet ‘Class-Struggle Adult Education for the 21st Century. Why we need it and how we can move towards it’. For copies of the pamphlet email Colin at colin.waugh@btinternet.com, and for details of the IWCEN, visit www.iwceducation.co.uk, or email iwceducation@yahoo.co.uk.
Event: Beyond the Neoliberal University: Critical Pedagogy and Activism - Coventry University, Friday 18th September 2015. The event seeks to address the notion that education has become profit oriented, by bringing together activists, academics and trade unionists who are engaged practically with the consequences of the way our universities are changing.
Issue 81, October to December 2015
Tutor Voices: we present their bill of rights for professional educators in FE and skills. More information on Tutor Voices in this TES article. Download
Dancing Princesses Carlene Cornish reviews the key text behind the Tutor Voices initiative. Download
Defend Citizenship Stephen Lambert sets out the case for citizenship education in the post-16 curriculum. Download
Review: Patrick Ainley reviews ‘Coming Up Short: Working-class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty’ (Jennifer M. Silva 2015). Download
On practising what you preach David Ridley and Ana Ines Salvi discuss a radically democratic approach to conference workshops Download
The neo-liberalisation of higher education: a transcript of a speech given by Gurnam Singh at the Joint Campus Unions Protest Picnic at Aston University on 2nd July 2015. Download
Women who shaped ‘Marxism’ An article based on a talk given by Colin Waugh at the Independent Working-Class Education Network seminar on ‘Women Making History’, held at Unite House, London on 19th September 2015. Download
Why rebuild IWCE? Colin Waugh introduces a section of a new PSE pamphlet ‘Class-Struggle Adult Education for the 21st Century. Why we need it and how we can move towards it’. For copies of the pamphlet email Colin at colin.waugh@btinternet.com, and for details of the IWCEN, visit www.iwceducation.co.uk, or email iwceducation@yahoo.co.uk. Download
IWCEN manifesto: readers’ input welcomed! The Independent Working Class Education Network (IWCEN), set up following interest in PSE’s occasional publication ‘Plebs: The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education’, is compiling a manifesto. Comments are welcome via their website:
http://iwceducation.co.uk