AN ALTERNATIVE TO
NEO-LIBERAL EDUCATION
NEW ANARCHIST
RESEARCH GROUP
JOINT MEETING WITH
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTRE (LINCOLN)
Saturday 28 November 2015
2.00 pm - 4.30pm
VENUE CHANGE
NOW AT THE MAYDAY
ROOMS
Apologies for the short notice but unfortunately it has been necessary
to change the venue for the meeting on Saturday 28 November. This will
now be held in the MAYDAY ROOMS, 88
Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, 2.00pm – 4.30pm.
The Social Science Centre (SSC) in Lincoln is a
self-organised co-operative higher learning provider that is democratic at all
levels of its organisation. The scholars who are members of the Centre work and
study together whether they are traditionally students or teachers. One of the
aims of the Centre is to analyse and dissolve the tensions in the relationships
between research and teaching, and students and academics. Set up by academics
from the University of Lincoln, the Centre has no relationship with the
University, although it is a critique of the formal institution as a
dysfunctional neoliberal arrangement in many ways. The SSC aims to ‘reinvent’
the University and transform the scholars’ relationship to knowledge in order
to insert their own experiences into theoretical knowledges that aim to
emancipate them as active change agents. The SSC engenders provocations,
conversations and discussions that enliven the notion that all those who are
involved in active knowledge work should become (co-) producers of knowledge.
Two of the (student) scholars and an academic from Lincoln will be visiting the
Anarchist Research Group to talk
about the centre and their experiences studying there.
In this session, we would like to tell you a little about
our experiences with the SSC and then invite a discussion on the SSC,
self-organised education and the relationships between education, learning, and
social change.
The Social Science Centre provides free public higher education in the city of Lincoln and emphasises the collective and collaborative nature of education. The Centre was opened in 2011 by academics and students and Lincoln residents who feel passionately that those wishing to study higher education should not have to take on the burden of debt. There is no fee to pay when joining the Centre, only what you can afford. Free also means freedom to study outside of the current disciplinary structures of higher education around topics and issues that are of direct concern to you and your local community.
ANARCHIST RESEARCH
GROUP: Our meetings are friendly and informal. They are usually held
on the fourth Saturday each month,
at the Torriano Meeting House in Kentish town, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5
2RX between 2.00pm and 4.30 pm
Directions: From Kentish Town tube station walk up Leighton Road, and turn left into Torriano Avenue.
Directions: From Kentish Town tube station walk up Leighton Road, and turn left into Torriano Avenue.
We take a collection after each meeting to cover the cost of
the venue.
***END***
‘Human Herbs’ –
a song by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
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