Teaching the Politics of Higher Education in the General Election 2019
For many of us, the general election raises issues in the subjects we teach. But for those of us taking industrial action, the current state of higher education is also an intense political issue, leading us to think about how education and knowledge production are interconnected with neoliberalism, marketisation, and privatisation.
As the International Economic Law Collective put it last week: "The increasing casualisation of teaching flows directly from the erosion of labour conditions sponsored through international economic law global norms in other sectors of the global economy" (see @iel_collective, 28 Nov 2019). Our struggles are connected with transformations in public services and the organisation of work that many workers both within the UK and abroad have already experienced.
With the general election only a week away, colleagues at Kent Law School (KLS) have prepared slides for a teach-out on Wednesday 4 December (11-1pm, Woolf Lecture Theatre, University of Kent). This will be the last day of strike action, for now. The teach out will focus on the main parties' manifesto commitments in the areas of higher education and workers' rights, but also extending to issues concerning democracy, Brexit, and climate change. We have shared the slides on Scribd, academia.edu, wetransfer and via google slides so that you can adapt them for your own teaching once the strike is over.
The work of tracing, analysing, and shouting about the connections between economic norms and the structure of higher education is ongoing, and we hope to revisit this in future posts.
Thank you very much to Donatella Alessandrini, Suhraiya Jivraj, Rose Parfitt and other KLS members of Legal Academics Strike Again for sharing these slides.
As the International Economic Law Collective put it last week: "The increasing casualisation of teaching flows directly from the erosion of labour conditions sponsored through international economic law global norms in other sectors of the global economy" (see @iel_collective, 28 Nov 2019). Our struggles are connected with transformations in public services and the organisation of work that many workers both within the UK and abroad have already experienced.
With the general election only a week away, colleagues at Kent Law School (KLS) have prepared slides for a teach-out on Wednesday 4 December (11-1pm, Woolf Lecture Theatre, University of Kent). This will be the last day of strike action, for now. The teach out will focus on the main parties' manifesto commitments in the areas of higher education and workers' rights, but also extending to issues concerning democracy, Brexit, and climate change. We have shared the slides on Scribd, academia.edu, wetransfer and via google slides so that you can adapt them for your own teaching once the strike is over.
The work of tracing, analysing, and shouting about the connections between economic norms and the structure of higher education is ongoing, and we hope to revisit this in future posts.
Thank you very much to Donatella Alessandrini, Suhraiya Jivraj, Rose Parfitt and other KLS members of Legal Academics Strike Again for sharing these slides.
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