Ronald Macintyre: What if our Education was Socially Just
Sat 9th March: Tate Exchange
Sat 9th March: Tate Exchange
The podcast below was recorded at the Beta Society launch event at Tate Exchange, 5-10 March 2019, also see 'What is Beta Society?' Discussion based on a very simple premise, a “what if”, and an issue which draws on a couple of decades of work on inclusion and widening participation in education.
Podcast.
Podcast discussion based on a very simple premise, a “what if”, and an issue which draws on a couple of decades of work on inclusion and widening participation in education. Using approaches from soft systems working in small groups it asks you to speculate on what a socially just education system would look like, what would it mean for it to be normal, what will its character be, and what will it enable.
Having thrown yourself into this new normal, it will then ask you to consider what needs to change, to think through the difference that will make a difference. While the workshop is partly about the use of speculative questions, about how we might untangle ourselves from battling against social and structural relations, about imagining better or indeed worse futures, and how that this might allow us to change the present. Deep breath. At its simplest the title is an excuse to gather people together to have a meaningful conversation about social justice and education.”
Having thrown yourself into this new normal, it will then ask you to consider what needs to change, to think through the difference that will make a difference. While the workshop is partly about the use of speculative questions, about how we might untangle ourselves from battling against social and structural relations, about imagining better or indeed worse futures, and how that this might allow us to change the present. Deep breath. At its simplest the title is an excuse to gather people together to have a meaningful conversation about social justice and education.”
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About the facilitator
Ronald has a background in sustainability and community development. For the last 15 years he has mainly worked as an education action researcher specialising in participatory approaches to working with Third Sector groups to design educational pathways and outreach activities. Often through Higher Education Third Sector partnerships to design pathways into learning or free open online courses. He lives on a small farm in the West Highlands of Scotland and has been involved in setting up a number of social enterprises and charities in the locale. |
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