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Mike Neary presents a utopian vision for higher education based on the socialist architecture of Cedric Price (1934-2003) and the actor Joan Littlewood (1914-2002), whose work included ‘The University of the Streets’ (1961) and ‘The Thinkbelt’ (1966). These futuristic visions are grounded in a social theory of time that …

 

Student as Producer is a manifesto for revolutionary teaching that emerged from inside an English university at the start of the 21st century. Grounded in a pedagogy derived from Marxist social theory (Postone 1993, Clarke 1991, Dinerstein 2015, Holloway 2002), Student as Producer provides a practical and critical response …

Student as Producer is a manifesto for revolutionary teaching that emerged from inside an English university at the start of the 21st century. Grounded in a pedagogy derived from Marxist social theory (Postone 1993, Clarke 1991, Dinerstein 2015, Holloway 2002), Student as Producer provides a practical and critical response to …

This is the paper I will be presenting at the launch of Ana Dinerstein’s new book at the University of Bath, 17th April, 2015.

I must apologise for not being John Holloway. I am as disappointed as you are that he is not able to be here today. John’s work …

This is a paper I will be presenting at the launch of Ana Dinerstein’s new book at the University of Bath, 17th April, 2015.

For more details about the book see: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-politics-of-autonomy-in-latin-america-ana-cecilia-dinerstein/?K=9780230272088

 

Teeming with radical scholarship, this book reports on the explosion of rage and hope against the injustices of …

 

This is an abstract for a piece of new writing, in the form of a scoping document, setting out areas of work to be further developed. It is based on my association with the city of Valparaiso, Chile.

 

 

Blueprint for a derelict city (downtown Valparaiso)

 

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This is a section of a report on Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln for the Higher Education Academy (HEA), who funded the project as part of the National Teacher Fellowship Project Scheme in 2010-2013. The full report ‘Student as Producer: research-engaged teaching, an institutional strategy’, was written …

This is a section of a report on Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln for the Higher Education Academy (HEA), who funded the project as part of the National Teacher Fellowship Project Scheme in 2010-2013. The full report ‘Student as Producer: research-engaged teaching, an institutional strategy’, was written …

 

 

If  the future is everywhere crisis, chaos and catastrophe how can we avoid our fear of the future? We can do this by constructing derelict buildings. By this I do not mean adapting already derelict buildings, as ‘cut up’  sculptures to make anarchistic  anti-capitalist statements against the laws …

 

Abstract to be considered for Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labour: a special issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labour 

Authors:

Elisabeth Simbuerger Lecturer, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Valparaiso, Chile

[email protected]

Professor Mike Neary, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK…

In Chile, a ‘country of catastrophes’ (Allende 1985 19), two catastrophes are never far from the surface of public consciousness: major earthquakes and the Military Dictatorship (1973-1990). While these catastrophes have been linked through metaphorical allusions, e.g.,  Pinochet’s regime has been described as ‘a seismic event’ (Klein 2008 306), and …

These are the powerpoint slides for my presentation at the Westminster Higher Education Forum session on Innovative Approaches to Curriculum Design in Higher Education on 27th November 2014

Powerpoint presentation: MNWestminsterFlexPed

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Please see below a version of a proposal submitted to the HEA in April 2014 for funding, £20,000, under their Students as Partners initiative. The proposal was not deemed suitable for funding.  The participants involved with this research project are currently considering other sources of funding.

Student as Producer: from …

 

Ten Things You Need to Know About Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln, UK

 

1. Student as Producer – research-engaged teaching is the organising principle for teaching and learning at Lincoln, across all courses and levels

2. Quality Assurance Agency institutional review 2012 commended Lincoln for …

1. Student as Producer – research-engaged teaching is the organising principle for teaching and learning at Lincoln, across all courses and levels

2. Quality Assurance Agency institutional review 2012 commended Lincoln for the enhancement of student learning opportunities framed around Student as Producer

3. Higher Education Academy regards Student as …

This is an abstract submitted by me for inclusion in the forthcoming conference in June at the London School of Economics: ‘Governing Academic Life’   http://www.governing-academic-life.org/

CHALLENGING THE CAPITALIST UNIVERSITY – research, teaching and the recovery of revolutionary  science

Contra to Foucault’s assertion that the state is a ‘mythicised abstraction’ (College …

This is a list of my keynotes and other speaking engagements about Student as Producer and related matters 2011 – 2013 (incomplete):

University of Westminster (1st June, 2013) ‘Student as Producer’, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture

University of Sussex (13th May, 2013) ‘Student as Producer’, Centre for Higher …

 

 

STUDENT AS PRODUCER HAS BEEN THE ORGANISING PRINCIPLE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN SINCE 2010

 

 

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This is a list of my  invited keynotes and other speaking engagements during the Academic Year 2013-2014 on the subject of Student as Producer and related matters:

University of Durham (9th July, 2014) ‘Academic Not-Identity’ at Academic Identities Conference https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/cap/conferences/identities2014/

London Metropolitan University (8th July, 2014)  ‘Student as Producer – …

In this brief paper I  describe my contribution to the Against Value Seminar, University of Sheffield, 20-21st March 2014. This seminar is continuing work on Against Value in the Arts and Humanities that began in 2012.

I want to revisit  work I did with Ana Dinerstein in 2002:  The Labour …

It is a pleasure and a privilege to have been asked to speak at the launch of the University of Chichester’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2014-2020. The document is comprehensive and compelling.

I am going to focus on a number of key themes in the strategy that are close to …

Student as Producer – Radicalising the Mainstream in Higher Education

The plan for this session is:

Background to Student as Producer: the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research with legacy projects – Reinvention: an international journal for student research, and the Reinvention Classroom.  Student as Producer is a …

Abstract  for colloquium on Drone Culture, School of the Humanities, University of Lincoln, May 24th 2014:

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event,name,27817,en.html

This paper is a response to a call by Benjamin Noys  to rehabilitate a thinking of negativity against the affirmationalist impulse of contemporary continental theory (2012 ix). Following Noys (2012 172), I claim …