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The Lancaster University Teach-Outs: Experiments in Radical Pedagogies and Reimagining the University
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Darren Cogavin – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This article examines the teach-outs organised by staff and students at Lancaster University during the 2021-22 UCU strike. Guided by a critical discourse analysis of blog posts co-produced by staff and students during the strike and teach-outs, this article will examine how the teach-outs developed an education programme critiquing the neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Teacher Strikes
Navigating the Neoliberal University: Reflecting on Teaching Practice as a Teacher-Researcher-Trade Unionist
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Evans, Matthew – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This article reflects upon the neoliberalisation of higher education and its effects on teaching practice. It is argued that a neoliberal discourse of teaching excellence has the effect of working against, and potentially undermining, the emancipatory potential of higher education. The article reflects upon attempts to navigate disciplinary power…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Neoliberalism, Educational Practices
Public Pedagogy in the Creative Strike: Destabilizing Boundaries and Re-Imagining Resistance in the University of Puerto Rico
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Rosario, Melissa – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
In this article, I examine key symbols and strategies mobilized by students during the first system-wide strike in the University of Puerto Rico's history. I argue that these acts of creative cultural production not only supported the growth of participatory politics within the mobilization but that they also were tools for enacting public…
Descriptors: Police, Ethics, Activism, Student Behavior
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike
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Laguarta Ramirez, Jose A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
From April 2010 to March 2011, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) underwent a two-phase strike sequence against neoliberal austerity measures. Altogether, that process resulted in the eventual concession of all of the students' main demands, an unprecedented feat at the UPR, and a rare one in Puerto Rican history in general. In this dissertation…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Students, Activism, Interaction
"Do It All but Don't Kill Us": (Re)positioning Teacher Educators and Preservice Teachers amidst edTPA and the Teacher Strike in West Virginia
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Sherfinski, Melissa; Hayes, Sharon; Zhang, Jing; Jalalifard, Mariam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
We explore how two "happenings" representing different political, social, historical and economic influences converge to shape the narratives of preservice teachers and teacher educators in West Virginia. These happenings are the 2017-2018 edTPA roll out and the teacher strike of February 2018. We use the framework of sensemaking to…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Performance Based Assessment
Facing the Corporate University: The New Wave of Student Movements in Europe
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Fernández, Joseba – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
The transformation of the historical functions and goals of the European university is producing the transition from mass university to what has been called "corporate university". With this goal, I will examine how the new functions of the university are aimed at providing services and precarious workers to the labor structure of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Commercialization