[SSC] Dates, Times and Places for courses

Sun Sep 2 08:12:14 UTC 2012

Dear All,
Please see below suggested timings for SSC courses this year.
Please get back to me if there are any issues for you about these dates and times.
Best wishes,
Mike

SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTRE – SUGGESTED CURRICULUM 2012 – 2013TERM 1Open Learning Session, Tuesday: 6 – 8 pm, Angel Coffee HouseThis is an open session held in informal surroundings where students can drop-in for social learning sessions to get support, advice, guidance and companionship from other scholars.October 2ndOctober 9thOctober 16thOctober 23rdOctober 30thNovember 6thNovember 13thNovember 20thNovember 27thDecember 4thSocial Science Imagination, Thursdays: 7 – 9 pm, Pathways CentreScholars will write up their own life histories, supplemented by literature and other materials suggested by other scholars in the group. This will be a mixed group with student-scholars at all levels, undergraduate and postgraduate.October 4thOctober 11thOctober 18thOctober 25thNovember 1stNovember 8thNovember 15thNovember 22ndNovember 29thDecember 6thTaskStudent-Scholars will write a 3000 (three thousand) word paper based on work done during this first term. Student-scholars will be encouraged to use other media to represent their ideas.Scholarly Literacies, Saturday : 2 – 4 pm Crofton Street Community CentreThe purpose of these sessions is to support student-scholars’ learning ,e,g. writing an essay, using references, accessing resources on-line and in libraries, speaking in public. These sessions take place every second week. This will be a mixed group with student-scholars at all levels, undergraduate and postgraduate.October 6thOctober 20thNovember 3rdNovember 17thDecember 1stTERM 2Open Learning Session: Tues, 6 – 8 pm Angel Coffee HouseJanuary 8th and weekly for ten weeks, ending March 12thScholarly Literacies, Saturday, 2-4 pm, Crofton Street Community CentreJanuary 12th and every second week, ending March 16thThemes of Inquiry, Thursday, 7 – 9 pm, Pathways CentreBased on work done in Social Science Imagination in TERM 1, these sessions will deepen and enrich thinking by focusing on concepts that emerge out of the student-scholars life history writing. This will be a mixed group with student-scholars at all levels, undergraduate and postgraduate.January 10th and each week until March 14thTaskStudent-Scholars will write 3000 ( three thousand) word outline paper as basis for Creative Project in Term 3. Student-Scholars will be encouraged to use a range of different media to represent their ideas.TERM 3The focus this term is on student-scholars creative projects. Open Learning Sessions will continue to run at Angel Coffee House, for 2 hours on a Tuesday evening. The Scholarly Literacy sessions will take place every second Saturday at Crofton Street Community Centre.Start and end dates to be confirmedOne significant issue this term is that student-scholars will be attached to a scholar who will act as their collaborator on their creative projects. Student-Scholars and Scholars to arrange their meetings for supervision and support.TaskStudent-scholars will write a 3000 (three thousand) word development paper based on their creative project.
From: Sally.Hanford at nottingham.ac.uk
To: nearymichael at hotmail.com; joss at josswinn.org; ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:04:15 +0100
Subject: RE: [SSC] SSC Meeting Notes 25th August

Was there an attachment? From: ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org [mailto:ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org] On Behalf Of Michael Neary
Sent: 27 August 2012 09:38
To: joss at josswinn.org; ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [SSC] SSC Meeting Notes 25th August  Dear All,

Please see draft notes from SSC meeting on 25th of August.

Bw,

M

Social Science Centre Meeting -  25th August, Pathways Centre, Beaumont Fee

Present

Darryl, Stephen, Alan, Grace, Mike N., Annie

Apologies

Sarah, Sandie, Richard K, David, Heather

The meeting began at 12 noon

There was no formal agenda. The meeting was based on discussions around a number of themes:

Public Lecture

Prof Michael Fielding has agreed to present the public lecture for the launch of the SSC. Due to Prof Fielding’s schedule the date for this event is now Thursday, 27th of September, from 7 – 9 pm at the Collection. Professor Fielding will be talking about democracy and education

Publicity

Mike agreed to contact Richard K and Grace next week to discuss publicity for this event and for the SSC generally. 

Curriculum

The draft curriculum for the Social Science Imagination was discussed. The meeting was very positive about the shape that his programme is taking. It was agreed that the outline should include some reference to the way in which issues will emerge from this programme to form the basis of the Themes programme in January 2012.

The draft curriculum for Scholary Literacies was presented by Darryl. It was agreed that this was a very solid framework on which to build  learning support for student-scholars. 

The meeting noted the start dates for all aspects of the SSC curriculum
agreed at the previous meeting. These dates were re-confirmed together with the names of the scholar-teachers who will be working on these parts of the programme. These dates and times are to be sent out to all members.

Students

The SSC has nine students who are committed to starting on the Social Science Imagination programme at the beginning of October.
These are: Stephen, Darryl, Annie, Alice, Alun, Grace, David, Vernon and Laura. 

Library Provison

Members of the Centre have met with Paul S, an experienced librarian working in the city of Lincoln. Paul has agreed to draw up a draft document setting out the Centre’s policies with regard to copyright and other matters relating to published resources used by the Centre. 

Purpose of SSC

There was an interesting discussion at the end of the meeting about the purpose of the SSC. The meeting agreed that SSC should be about more than learning social science, but should contribute to debates about how to resolve many of the serious issues confronting humanity. It was re-affirmed that the SSC should be flexible about what student-scholars want to get out of their engagement with the Centre.

The meeting ended at 1.25 pm 

MN 26th August > From: joss at josswinn.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:59:54 +0100
> To: ssc at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: [SSC] Meeting tomorrow cancelled
> 
> In response to my email last night, I've received a number of other apologies from members who are unable to attend the meeting. Some of you have also noticed that the meeting after that clashes with the Co-op conference on 1st September. I think we need a meeting sometime between the two and will speak toDavid McAleavey about the availability of venues and then propose another time/date.
> 
> Tomorrow's meeting (18th) is therefore cancelled.
> 
> Best
> Joss
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