Black History: Implicit Bias, Dishonest Scholarship and Colonial Propaganda
This article is a result of researching the work Akala presented at the Oxford Student’s Union for Black History month. It is part of a series which comes from the researching of one section at a time using the online video as a knowledge resource to structure a self directed curriculum. This methodology is one which has been developed in order to facilitate independent learning especially in informal contexts of the lives of people like myself.
Widening Participation in the Neoliberal University
This is an extended version of an article I wrote for an assessment in the MSc I am doing at Queen Margaret University. As a part of Public Sociology, I chose to write about the conflicted messaging of the university in terms of administration, bureaucracy and policy. Whilst many people in the educational sector act with values consonant to equating education to human development and as a public good essential for a society to function, the administrative structures seem captured by market driven, profit oriented values delivered increasingly by multinational companies. Read more…