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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for this Richard,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>How much of what you blogged is what we have agreed as a cooperative? Do we have a position that students become revolutionary, and that we aim to demonstrate the precarity of capital?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Edwin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4E4E4E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org [mailto:ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Hall<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 17:21<br><b>To:</b> ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [SSC] teach-in<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I spoke at a teach-out for Tent City University yesterday about the Social Science Centre. I blogged about it here: <a href="http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/2011/11/10/a-teach-in-at-tent-city-university-and-the-struggle-for-alternatives/">http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/2011/11/10/a-teach-in-at-tent-city-university-and-the-struggle-for-alternatives/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Note that Mike spoke last week: <a href="http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=PZ8CqlBrJ9r1">http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=PZ8CqlBrJ9r1</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best wishes, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Richard. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr Richard Hall, <br>National Teaching Fellow (2009), and Reader in Education and Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Head of Enhancing Learning through Technology, Department of Library and Learning Services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>T: +44 (0) 116 207 8254<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>E: <a href="mailto:rhall1@dmu.ac.uk">rhall1@dmu.ac.uk</a> SKYPE/TWITTER/YouTube: hallymk1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>W:: <a href="http://www.dmu.ac.uk/" target="_blank">dmu.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Learning Exchanges @ DMU: <a href="http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/">http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>DMU is Home to Mile2 which, in partnership with the Mayor’s office, is using DMU skills, knowledge and student volunteers to make a positive impact on a local Leicester community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>