¶ Co-operative pedagogy & Critical university studies

Cover of 'Reclaiming the University for the Public Good' which shows a stairwell in generic pseudo-brutalist style

In recent years, as a practitioner and a researcher, I have been working on co-operative higher education. With long-term collaborator Cilla Ross, I have written with quite widely on the topic. In particular we seek to understand what is special about co-operative education and the co-operatives in which education takes place. We have conceptualized 'education co-operatives' and continue to work toward an understanding of co-operative pedagogies. An edited collection (pictured) served to document a dynamic movement in the UK. My current work on this considers the consequences for acdemic labour and the historical development of co-operative pedagogies and education within the co-operative movement.

Community Work

In 2019 I worked on the LAT Community Explorers project for Leicester Vaughan College. This applied co-operative pedagogy to learning opportunities in Asset-Based Community Development work LVC was doing for Leicester Ageing Together. More about the project can be found on LVC's site, from where copies of the project report can be downloaded.

I would be delighted to hear from anyone working in these areas. Having written and presented widely on these topics, I am available for consulting and training in relation to co-operative learning and higher education.

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As I move around, working in different institutions and independently, I have decided the easiest thing to do is to pull together information about my work in one place. I am a freelance historian, sometimes working for Leicester Vaughan College, a higher education co-operative I helped establish, but primarily working for private clients. My historical interests are wide, and I can help with any British history after c.1700, with experience and skills in corporate, civic, central governent and personal records of all kinds, the full range of printed matter, oral histories, and material culture. I get great pleasure from weaving narratives and sharing material. Do please feel free to contact me malcolmjnoble [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk, or if you prefer call +44(0)7791380273. Image: John Thomas Serres, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Call for papers: Queer Bibliography workshop

QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY: TOOLS, METHODS, PRACTICES, APPROACHES With my colleague Sarah Pyke, I am arranging a workshop in London in February 2023, and am pleased to share the CfP below. Call for papers for a symposium at Senate House, University of London, 4 February 2023* Participants are invited to an optional practice-based workshop on 5 February 2023, venue TBC Sexuality and textuality are tightly bound. From our earliest experiences of media –including print – LGBTQI+ individuals are employing queer interpretative methods and navigating the ways queer identities might be ‘read’ by others. And yet, while literature’s constitutive effect on queer subjectivities is relatively well-worked ground, how exactly print objects inform, acknowledge, embody and produce queer identities and communities is understudied in bibliographic terms. Queer/ing book history is a project that has been advanced both inside and outside the academy (The Queer Book course at London Rare Books School, devised...

Call for papers: Co-operative Education online workshop (12 September 2023) and special number of 'Journal of Co-operative Studies'

With my colleagues Professor Esther Gicheru, Deputy Vice Chancellor Finance Planning & Administration, The Co-operative University of Kenya and Dr Cilla Ross, Honorary Professor Co-operative Education, University of Nottingham; Co-operative College UK; Journal of Co-operative Studies Advisory Board, I am arranging a workshop in September 2023 leading to a special number of the Journal of Co-operative Studies which considers co-operative education in its broadest sense – learning about co-operation, for co-operation, by co-operation, and through co-operation. The call is pasted below and can be viewed here . Key dates 12 June 2023 Deadline for short abstracts (300 words) and other proposals 12 September 2023 Online workshop 31 Ocotber 2023 Deadline for submission to special issue Co-operative Education — Call for papers Late-stage capitalism appears to have reached a point of permanent crisis: environmental catastrophe, nuclear war, and technological dystopias loom, against a b...

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