For my reflection on the first semester of our course; The Future of Our University: An Interdisciplinary Experiment in Cooperative Learning. I have decided to focus on our medium of association and the ‘consensus decision making’ approach. To help structure the reflection, I will compare and contrast it to contemporary …

Reflecting on this course is a harder process to undertake than I previously appreciated. This is in no small part due to the complexity of this module. Indeed, to even call it a module is too simplistic, it ignores the intricacies of the different aspects and actors involved with it. …

Explanation: I apologize for how late this is. I am quite the perfectionist when it comes to writing and it has been quite a while since I wrote poetry. Why I decided to write a poem was because I’ve found in the past that poetry is the best way for …

For reflection, I wrote a short essay that is mainly about my personal experiences related to education. Apologies for posting it so late..! I forgot to post it through this website.. – Education has always historically, socially and politically been a major and controversial issue since there are substantial different ideal …

I Initially intended to structure my reflection on the course via a dialogue with someone who had not participated in the course; someone else questioning me on the content and process of the course seemed like an effective way of escaping my standard perception of what we had been doing …

The occupation of March 2018 was very eye opening to me, not only as a period of development as an activist, but it also exposed me to conversations about the problems in our current education system. Whilst I already had strong objections to the commodification of education and the state …

Being part of this experiment has not been easy. In taking responsibility for our own learning and each other’s, we’ve set ourselves a substantial challenge. If you’ve been lucky, you’ve had teachers who have changed the course of your life, as many teachers have changed mine; people who recognized your …

I imagine a puzzle, often, perhaps of a few hundred pieces, perhaps of countless thousands. I do not know what image it holds – if any – and I do not know if all the pieces even fit. And yet on each there exists a full picture, with its hand …

In the course of this past semester, our group meetings have been punctuated by debates on issues of democracy and democratic organising, that have been informed by theory produced by political movements (such as feminist ones). In parallel, I have come to reflect on bureaucracy and its political bearings as …