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23 SES 14 B, Responding To Crisis In Education
Symposium, Part 2
Contribution
The current economic crisis is being harnessed by some British education activists to underpin the creation of new experimental education institutions. The new institutional arrangements they are developing draw more upon the social movement building practices of the environmental movement, upon the inspiration of the Paris Commune, and upon the practices of social media, than upon traditional universities. Initiatives such as the Really Free School, the University Project and the Temporary School of Thought explicitly seek to challenge the economics and structures of the traditional university. New institutions such as Hub Westminster are modelling a social-network based idea of the education institution as ‘platform’ for creative development. Groups such as Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, are exploring co-operative models for the development of educational institutions that operate alongside traditional universities. This paper maps out some of these experiments, including their location in wider pan-european practices such as Danish Kaos Pilots and the Knowledge Liberation Foundation and asks whether they would be possible if it were not for the discourse of contemporary crisis. It concludes by making a case for the criteria against which such experiments might need to be judged to be understood as a viable alternative trajectory for European education.
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Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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