About session records
Posts in this section are a week-by-week digest of what we did, with minutes, slides from guest speakers, visuals and so on. These were created for our own purposes of communication and record-keeping in the course. Sep 5, 2019
About the Education / Pedagogy group
Within our education and pedagogy cluster we attempted to draw on a number of the diverse, repeating themes that appeared in discussion with the broader group, such as; what knowledge counts as authoritative and academic? Who is deemed capable of teaching others, and what is the role of the student? …
Permaculture Process
The Future of our University course began with no template. We had all the choices in the world, but also all the difficulty of choosing. After working as one group for the first few sessions, we found that we needed to split into smaller groups based on interest to really …
Casualization In Our University
Hi everyone! Here are some blog posts by members of the casualization group that we drafted up as a summary of what we found during our interviews with tutors at the university. We carried out six semi-structured interviews across departments in the university. We hope these shed some light on …
Casualization group – summary and final thoughts
We created the Casualization (formerly called ‘Bureaucratization’) group because we wanted to engage critically with the university administration in an academic and a creative way. The group started meeting early on in the development of the course to plan our project and research our topic together. At the beginning of …
Assessment options for the course next year
What we currently have in the proposal: Two components: Participation in activities decided by the group: pass/fail Grade for course depends on independent piece of work—using self- and peer-assessment Problem with that: no.1 doesn’t have a grade so not part of overall grade, if you fail no.1 but get a …
How did we get to here?
How did we get to here? It may be wrong for an anthropology student to be so fascinated by causality, but here I am, and here we’ve all ended up. In the grand holistic human scheme of things, there’s too much going on to even know where to start figuring …
Semester 2 Reflection
Reflection on Semester 2 : Future of Our University Over the course of the second semester there was a push to finalise the course. This has given everyone lots of time to reflect on the many different workshops and sessions that took place over the final months. For this reflection …
Some thoughts on the radical future of the course
In this reflection, I would like to think about the course in its globality in relation the wider structures it operates in, such the University bureaucracy. I believe the course is a radical political experiment and it should aim to retain its political significance. The University as neoliberal institution Firstly, …
SEMESTER 2 REFLECTION – THE ACTIVITY I LEARNT THE MOST FROM
For my reflection on the second half of this course, I am going to write about which particular activity we did in class that I felt I learnt the most from. I want to focus on the session in which Pilar Garcia de Leaniz came in and ran a session …
