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