[SSC] FW: teach-in

[Joyce Canaan]

Interesting debate; one I hope to contribute to when teaching hell of this
semester ends.  I look forward to discussion of this from last Saturday's
minutes.  I might add more comments thereafter.

joyce



From:  Richard Hall <RHall1 at dmu.ac.uk>
Date:  Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:13:08 -0000
To:  <ssc at lists.aktivix.org>
Subject:  [SSC] FW:  teach-in

Hi Edwin,
 
It¹s my take on it. And it is positioned very specifically and very
politically.  I¹m 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?
 
I¹m not primarily asking to instigate a debate on the substance of these
issues ­ in fact, I¹d rather like to avoid one.  More mundanely, I¹m asking
to get clarity on whether they are agreed positions of the SSC.
 
I joined to teach students who don¹t want to get into debt. I didn¹t know
that we had much beyond that in terms of a political position, but it always
possible that I¹ve missed something, having only been able to get to one
meeting so far.
 
Edwin
 
 
 

From: ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org [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-university-a
nd-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/MLSOverviewPage?si
d=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. 
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