[SSC] FW: teach-in

[Richard Hall]

Hi Edwin,

 

It's my take on it. And it is positioned very specifically and very
politically.  I'm not sure it has been agreed, but I have ripped off
some of the position papers.

 

That said, you are right to raise the issues of consensus for what we
say in public about the SSC [this has worried me if I am honest]. Would
you like me to raise these next Saturday? I would be very happy to take
part in a conversation about them.

 

However, whilst I do see the SSC as an avowedly political project, I
recognise that it is just one position.

 

Have a good weekend.

 

Richard.

 

From: Edwin Bacon [mailto:edwin at baconweb.co.uk] 
Sent: 11 November 2011 16:55
To: Richard Hall
Subject: RE: [SSC] teach-in

 

Thanks for this Richard,

 

How much of what you blogged is what we have agreed as a cooperative? Do
we now have a position that students become revolutionary, and that we
aim to demonstrate the precarity of capital?

 

Does the SSC aim to understand how we can create meaningful criteria for
learning and teaching that are not alienating or symbolically violent?
Has the SSC decided that what we are doing is an act of political
refusal?

 

I'm not primarily asking to instigate a debate on the substance of these
issues - in fact, I'd rather like to avoid one.  More mundanely, I'm
asking to get clarity on whether they are agreed positions of the SSC.

 

I joined to teach students who don't want to get into debt. I didn't
know that we had much beyond that in terms of a political position, but
it always possible that I've missed something, having only been able to
get to one meeting so far.

 

Edwin

 

 

 

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[mailto:ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hall
Sent: 10 November 2011 17:21
To: ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [SSC] teach-in

 

Hi,

 

I spoke at a teach-out for Tent City University yesterday about the
Social Science Centre. I blogged about it here:
http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/2011/11/10/a-teach-in-at-tent-city-universi
ty-and-the-struggle-for-alternatives/ 

 

There are some issues I raised about student-as-producer and the
curriculum that we need to nail. But I wanted to raise them as issues. I
also blatantly ripped-off some stuff from the quality paper that
Sara/Sarah  drafted.

 

Note that Mike spoke last week:
http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPag
e?sid=PZ8CqlBrJ9r1 

 

We have some good friends and comrades at TCU. I had a good chat
afterwards, before and on the march. I think they will be amenable to
more engagements with us.

Best wishes, 

Richard. 

Dr Richard Hall, 
National Teaching Fellow (2009), and Reader in Education and Technology.

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