Using creativity to envision a good society

Goldstraw, Katy

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“…National VCS Organisation, Steering Group Member Working within existing University and VCS structures and recognising the variety of organisational structures held within the VCS were challenges to the work. This supports findings from the author (Goldstraw, 2018) who shares that integrated working across sectors requires high levels of goodwill and trust.…”

Section: The Liminal Interstices Of Passion Activism and Change Makingsupporting

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“…The opportunity to engage in creative approaches with opportunities to co-create visual representations of steering group conversations were an important part of valuing the diverse knowledge sets within the steering group (Goldstraw, 2018). The author worked with an artist to create a visual representation of steering group discussions.…”

Section: Creating Safe Spaces Of Unknowingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Core learning from the co-producing ideas leaders and learning project was that finding the passion, commitment and drive to knit in extra time and creativity was key. Coproduction is time and commitment intensive work (Goldstraw, 2018) and this project was no different; it would not have worked without the flexibility and good will of the academic staff, students and VCS leaders.…”

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Co-producing ideas, leaders and learning – teaching participatory activism in Stoke-on-Trent

Goldstraw

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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This paper will critically analyse a University-funded Centre of Learning and Pedagogic Practice (SCoLPP) project. The project was designed to integrate the co-produced learning from the Action on Poverty and Hardship Degree steering group, which was made up of local and national Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) leaders and low-income students on the course. The project was directly aligned with the University Academic Strategy, designed to integrate academic integrity into innovative curriculum design. This article will critically discuss how the project, in its co-produced place-based approach, aligned its curriculum design to external engagement within Stoke-on-Trent. The Action on Poverty and Hardship Degree team worked over the course of 18 months with a steering group of local and national voluntary sector employers to actively recruit and support students from low-income backgrounds to become engaged in anti-poverty activism. This article will critically discuss how the voices of students with lived experience of poverty engaged to co-produce learning with local and national voluntary sector leaders. The paper will critically reflect on best practice in co-produced curriculum development.

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Section: The Liminal Interstices Of Passion Activism and Change Makingsupporting

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Section: Creating Safe Spaces Of Unknowingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Goldstraw

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Desperately seeking the good society

Hughes

2018

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Working towards the ‘good society’ is an important aspiration to hold, but equally its subjectivity complicates the realisation for all – each person’s view of what ‘good’ means in relation to society differs. The notion is also open to statutory appropriation and mainstreaming using rhetoric to suggest its centrality to governmental thinking, but the reality reveals policy and practice, which undermines the accomplishment of social justice and thus a good society. This paper seeks to explore this complexity through dissecting the processes of representation of the ‘good society’ in theory and in practice. The paper will argue that the ‘good society’ might be termed a doxic construct. Bourdieu used ‘doxa’ to explain how arbitrariness shapes people’s acceptance of their place in the world, the covert process is ‘internalised’, seemingly objectively, into the ‘social structures and mental structures’, producing a universal and accepted knowledge of something (Bourdieu, 1977 ). The possibility of difference is undermined; thus, the varied needs and contexts of people’s lived realities are consumed within prevailing normative narratives. Foucault (cited in Simon, 1971 : 198) referred to a ‘system of limits’ and Bourdieu (1977: 164) ‘ sense of limits’, both authors will assist in seeking to uncover how such invisible practices limit and constrain the imagining of possibilities beyond the taken-for-granted. The paper argues that community development can be a catalyst to challenge this invisibility by utilising Freire’s ( 1970 ) conscientisation, enabling people to recognise structural oppression to challenge the status quo. This paper will draw on examples offered within a northern city to build on Knight’s, 2015 research, which posed the question ‘[w]hat kind of society do we want?’, identifying, when asked, a hunger for change. The paper explores whether there is a desire to overturn the predominant individualism of the neoliberal era to reignite the notion of the common good.

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Using creativity to envision a good society

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Co-producing ideas, leaders and learning – teaching participatory activism in Stoke-on-Trent

Co-producing ideas, leaders and learning – teaching participatory activism in Stoke-on-Trent

Desperately seeking the good society

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