Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues IV

MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES IV - Education and the Labour Process
a day seminar

Wednesday 5th May 2004
9.30 - 5.00
CLARKE HALL
School of Education Foundations & Policy Studies
University of London
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
20 Bedford Way, London WC1

9.30 – 10.00:

Registration

10.00 – 1015:

Introduction
Tony Green (University of London, Institute of Education) and Glenn Rikowski (University College Northampton)

10.15 – 10.45:

Tony Green (University of London, Institute of Education) Education and the Labour Process: Renewing a Dialogue?

10.45 – 11.15:

Geraldine Thorpe (London Metropolitan University) The Academic Labour Process in Decay?

11.15 – 11.45:

Patrick Cooper-Duffy (National Health Service worker) The Blind Watchmaker Experiences of a Male Nurse

11.45 – 12.15:

James Avis (University of Wolverhampton) Beyond Performativity and the New Professionalism: Reflections on the Labour Process in Further Education

12.15 – 12.45:

Susan L Robertson (University of Bristol) Teachers’ Labour as Object: A Marxist Analysis of Open Source Teaching, Learning Objects and a Learning Object Repository

12.45 – 1.45:

LUNCH

1.45 – 2.15:

Brian Kelly (BECTU – Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph & Theatre Union) Reskilling, Deskilling and New Labour’s National Skills Strategy

2.15 – 2.45:

Dennis Beach (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Restructuring the Adult Education Labour Process in Sweden

2.45 – 3.15:

BREAK

3.15 – 3.45:

Ruth Rikowski (London South Bank University) On the Impossibility of Determining the Length of the Working Day for Intellectual Labour

3.45 – 4.15:

Glenn Rikowski (University College Northampton) Blind Alley? Education and the Labour Process Revisited

4.15 – 5.00:

PLENARY – OPEN DISCUSSION

The Seminar is free, but places are limited

To reserve a place, please contact Glenn Rikowski at: rikowski@tiscali.co.uk