Public sociology is for changing the world with the people.
15/04/2024
Vallatulla Taideyliopiston Teatterikorkeakoululla tänään:
S*x on the beach - perhedraama (https://www.uniarts.fi/tapahtumat/sex-on-the-beach-perhedraama/) ja
Marginal Notes on a Body Slipping Away (https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/non-repetitive/)
10/01/2024
Mike Neary (1956–2023) was one of those rare figures in critical social theory and critical pedagogy who did not make a fuss of themselves but dedicated his academic life to bringing up the best of his students and the institutions he served.
He did not live according to the neoliberal university's 'publish or perish' format but created opportunities for intellectual cooperation and democracy between teachers and students.
Among his contributions were the ideas of ‘students as producers’ and the concept of a ‘cooperative university.’
But as often happens, most of his innovations have since turned to dust because of the money-making, profit-oriented, and conservative-to-the-bone universities.
As Finnish pop-rock band Four Roses has it, “Every night and every day will go down in history, eventually, be forgotten.”
This is the price most of us pay for our efforts – trials, and errors.
Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoseRed.jpg
Mike's papers:
https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/1675/
https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/23051/1/Co-opHEconferencepaper2016.pdf
16/06/2023
Orpon hallituksen silmänkääntötemppu
Orpon hallitus lupaa lisää rahaa perusopetukseen (200 m€) m***a asettaa samalla kunnille valtionosuuksien indeksijarrun (126 m€). Kunnat vastaavat perusopetuksesta. Saldoksi jää 74 m€ plussalle.
Kokonaisuutena koulutuksesta kuitenkin leikataan. Yliopistoilta muun muassa otetaan n. 30 m€ samalla kun hallitus lupaa lisätä opiskelupaikkoja korkeakoulutukseen.
Vapaan sivistystyöt ovat myös monelta osin tehty: esimerkiksi opintokeskuksilta viedään 39 prosenttia niiden valtionrahoituksesta.
Aikuiskoulutustuki lopetetaan vaikka valtio osallistuu sen rahoitukseen vain pieneltä osin.
Orpon hallituksen viesti on, että koulutukseen panostetaan.
Ks. lisää: https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000009662045.html?share=d0877188e87032a49025954c7aaeb332
08/04/2023
https://www.ksl.fi/rosa-luxemburg-kolmessa-illassa/
Rosa Luxemburg kolmessa illassa Karl Marx loi käsitteellisen välineistön kapitalismin kritiikille, jota on sittemmin kehitetty moniin eri suuntiin.
https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/12212/1/fulltext.pdf
24/03/2022
Tutkija aktivistina? – Aikuiskasvatuksen teemanumeron julkistaminen - Kvs-säätiö Ilmastonmuutoksen ja pakolaisuuden kaltaisissa globaaleissa kysymyksissä ei ole hetkeäkään hukattavaksi, m***a poliittinen koneisto on hidas. Kansalaisyhteiskunta on poliittisen vaikuttamisen kenttä ja keino, myös tutkijalle.
19/07/2021
Inventing Militant Scholarship for Political and Intellectual Emancipation: A Response to Mirka Koro’s Speculative Experimentation in (Methodological) Pluriverse - Juha Suoranta, 2021 In this response to Mirka Koro’s article “Speculative Experimentation in (Methodological) Pluriverse,” I emphasize the need for militant scholarship as a method...
03/03/2021
Focus Seminar: Welcome to the Neoliberal University. Register now! From March to June, every other Tuesday, we will be hosting a seminar series related to our new FOCUS: The Neoliberal University and its Students. We would be happy to have you participating in it!…
14/01/2021
”Given the challenges our world faces, it may seem that small projects, programs and initiatives offer just a salve to broader social and political dynamics but these are the types of contestatory spaces, openings and initiatives that enable participatory democracy.”
Education for Democracy 2.0 "Education for Democracy 2.0" published on 04 Jan 2021 by Brill | Sense.
03/01/2021
All 57 volumes:
Socialist Register The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in 1964 as ‘an annual survey of movements and ideas’ from the standpoint of the independent new left. It is currently edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo, assisted by an editorial collective of eminent scholars in Africa, Asia...
03/01/2021
The year 2021 marks Paulo Freire’s centennial.
Paulo Freire Finland This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees