[Knowledgelab-Ireland] academic activism: practicing praxis in HE curriculums

[Laurence Cox]

- apologies for crossposting -

Forwarding a short survey on academic activism - please reply directly 
to the organisers.

Laurence Cox

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Academic Activism:  Practicing Praxis in HE Curriculums    

Background
This research project aims to discover the extent to which 
political activism 
is taught in further and higher education and assist academic 
colleagues who want to make it part of their teaching provision.  
It is well know that conceptual and empirical enquiry into 
political action forms the basis for much undergraduate and 
postgraduate teaching and learning in the social sciences, 
humanities and law. The recent promotion of learning and 
teaching around the concept of ‘citizenship’ has meant that there 
is a greater focus on the issue of student engagement with 
political processes. What is not so well understood is the extent 
to which this teaching and learning is actually engaged, or is 
devised to equip students with the skills so that they might 
become engaged, with real political activity in the world outside 
of universities and colleges. Central to our concerns is the 
response to any political education that is overtly critical of the 
ways in which ‘acceptable’ political activity is formulated by 
state policy.


Request
We want to know how you and your colleagues incorporate 
political activism in your courses and would like to capture the 
type of curriculum material and approaches you have developed.  
In this direction, we are writing to you to ask to take a few 
minutes from your time to complete a short questionnaire and 
also send us a copy or links of your course/module outline and 
any other material that you think may be or relevance and interest 
for our research. We would be grateful if you could let us know 
of any other similar activities that you think may be of interest to 
our research.

We understand that you may not want to send this information in 
response to this type of request. We would be very pleased to 
come and talk to you about our project in more detail.

The research is neither limited to any particular kind of political 
action, nor to any particular political orientation. The research is 
sponsored by the Higher Education Subject Centre for Sociology, 
Politics and Anthropology.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.


Dr. John Karamichas (School of sociology, Social Policy and 
Social Work, Queen’s University of Belfast), 
j.karamichas at qub.ac.uk 

Dr. Mike Neary, (Department of Sociology, The University of 
Warwick), m.j.neary at warwick.ac.uk 

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Academic Activism: Practicing Praxis in HE 
Curriculums

Definition: By academic activism we mean the pedagogical 
practice of academics in the social sciences that are 
simultaneously committed to progressive social justice 
through their involvement in social and political movements 
and protest groups.

*   Basic Details

1.1.  Submitted by:



1.2.  Name of module/s and undergraduate programme



1.3.  Educational Institution



*   Pedagogical approach

2.1 How does the module help students appreciate the need for change in 
the current forms of social organisation to alternative/participatory methods 
of decision-making and fair distribution of goods?  










2.1 How does the course help students to acquire and develop skills and 
knowledge that encourage them to act according to or in support of 
alternative/participatory methods of decision-making and fair distribution of 
goods?    








Thank you for your time.  When you have completed the 
survey, please return it by email to: 
j.karamichas at qub.ac.uk 

Or by post to:

John Karamichas
School of Sociology, Social Policy
& Social Work
Queen’s University
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland


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Dept. of Sociology, St. Anne's building,
NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/
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