New Labour's Education Policy and Social Justice
A BERA Social Justice SIG seminar

University College Northampton
4 May 2004
11.00-6.15pm

Papers from:

• Hugh Busher (University of Leicester)
  The impact of managerialism on the search for socially inclusive education: the conflict between league tables and social
• Valerie Hey & Simon Bradford (Brunel University)
  Successful subjectivities? The beaconisation of class, ethnic and gender positions
• Dave Hill (University College Northampton)
  The attack on equality and egalitarian critique in the education restructuring of Britain and the USA - repressive and ideological state apparatuses in action justice
• Rob Hulme (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Policy transfer in evidence based practice in education
• Pat Thomson (University of Nottingham)
  School dinners, class and gender: Let them eat cake low fat organic food cooked by celebrity chefs...
• Martin Thrupp (Institute of Education)
  'Official school improvement' in Wyeham: inner-city tales of frustration and subversion
• Elaine Unterhalter (Institute of Education)
  Harry Potter and the Third Way: Schools, social justice and different worlds in New Labour education policy
• Michael Watts (St Edmund’s College Cambridge)
  Sen's capability approach and access to higher education.

To attend please complete the slip below and send it with a cheque for £15 (made out to University College Northampton, includes coffee and lunch) to:

Dave Hill
Professor of Education Policy
University College Northampton
Park Campus
Northampton
NN2 7AL

Email queries: dave.hill@northampton.ac.uk

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