A Little Night Reading: Marx, Assessment, and the Professional Doctorate in Education

Painting the Police Station Blue: The Almost Impossible Argument for Poetry in the Elite Educational Research Journals

“…Where criticism begins to behave more like censorship, and 'breathing air and eating bread' transmogrifies into 'making money' (for someone else -in this case 'the state', as it voraciously consumes 'the university'), the capitalist mode of production which, in our own time and being paradoxically unregulated, manifests as neo-liberalism. This is a confusing, disordered world, indeed, where assessment/critique becomes not a means towards better work ('order') but a fetish object (Perselli, 2011), an end in itself ('orders'). I am inclined to believe that teachers and educators in the USA have a sturdier relationship with the arts than we do in Britain, and perhaps a more centred consciousness of how art informs the discipline of education.…”

“…Cox, 2002). However, in itself, this was not a clear-cut matter of 'cultural revisionism' or reassertion of right-wing values, but a complex scenario wherein intellectuals and artists pursuing a range of liberalising causes, on the one hand (the relaxation of laws on homosexuality, for example), expressed concern -historically shared with some Marxists (Perselli, 2011) -regarding the 'child-centred', arts-based approach in schools.…”

Public Sociology and Social Movements: Incorporation or a War of Position?

“…Whilst university governance has largely colluded in -if not embraced -these neoliberal developments, there have been sites of resistance within the higher education sector from the perspectives of liberalism (Collini 2012), critical education (Crowther et al 2005), feminism (Thwaites and Pressland 2017) and Autonomist (Hall and Winn 2017) as well as more orthodox Marxism (Perselli 2011). Much critique of the neoliberal university locates the problematic within the boundaries of the university itselfits academics, staff, students, pedagogy, management, governance or political economy.…”