Tannock
Biographic Data
| ID | 21533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tannock |
| FAMILY NAME | Tannock |
| SIGNATURE | TANNOCK |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5486-3280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 429 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The education divides (that confront society today)
On education and degrowth
Adaptation Strategies: Labour Education, Climate Crisis and the UK Trade Union Movement
A growing number of climate activists and scholars argue that an effective climate movement needs the involvement of the trade union movement, to be able to push forward the radical social transformations required to address the global climate crisis. This article analyses the recent focus on climate adaptation in labour education and action by trade unions in the UK. Climate adaptation is inherently political, and this article analyses the agend…
Green Shoots: Political Education in the UK Trade Union Movement on the Climate Crisis
In labor, climate and social movement organizing contexts, calls have been made for the importance of political education; yet the meaning of political education is often left poorly defined. This article argues that what is usually being called for is a model of radical (political) education. Using the example of political education developed by the UK trade union movement to address the climate crisis, the article suggests how a model of radica…
Culture workers against big oil: The importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis
This article argues for the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis, a vital form of education too often overlooked in the climate movement. Drawing on a case study of unionized culture workers in the United Kingdom, the article seeks to show the distinctive embed- ded nature of labor education. Success of labor education on the climate crisis hinges not so much on a particular pedagogy or curriculum in any one classroom sett…
An inopportune moment: Trade unions, climate crisis and the collapse of labour education in England
A growing number of climate activists and scholars argue that an effective climate movement needs the involvement of the trade union movement, to be able to push forward the radical social transformations required to address the global climate crisis. If workers are to be able to play this kind of role in a global climate movement, a sustained and transformative programme of labour education on the climate crisis will be essential. In England, ho…
The oil industry in our schools: From Petro Pete to science capital in the age of climate crisis
Fossil fuel corporations play a significant role in promoting their interests in schools and other educational institutions, a practice that has recently been labelled as ‘petro-pedagogy.’ But this role goes beyond the production of the pro-petroleum and anti-science corporate propaganda that tends to attract the most critical attention. In this article, I present a case study of the involvement of BP, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel corpo…
Deschooling from above
The concept of deschooling has been making a comeback, after having been largely written off by the mainstream education research community in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, it is not just anti-capitalist radicals who are rediscovering the appeal of deschooling, but political and economic elites as well. This article traces some of the central claims and practices of this elite-led movement - that we call 'deschooling from above' - in curren…
Society and Education: An Outline of Comparison
I was asked by the editors of the British Journal of Sociology of Education to write a review of Stavros Moutsios’ new book on society and education, and came to this text without any prior knowled
Subcontracting Academia: Alienation, Exploitation and Disillusionment in the UK Overseas Syrian Refugee Research Industry
As the political economy of social science research has shifted, subcontracted research assistants have taken over an ever growing part of the research process. In this article, we report on a case study of the experiences of local research assistants employed on UK ‐directed research projects on Syrian refugees in Lebanon. While refugee research is framed in the UK as a noble project of helping the world's most vulnerable, these assistants speak…
The global securitisation of youth
This article looks critically at the new global youth, peace and security agenda, that has been marked by the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 in December 2015. It argues that this agenda needs to be situated within the broader context of the securitisation of development, and that the increasing interest in youth as a security subject and actor is shaped by three overlapping sets of global security concerns: the concept…
The education penalty: Schooling, learning and the diminishment of wages, working conditions and worker power
Currently dominant human capital and knowledge economy rhetoric holds that education can raise wages, empower workers and enhance working conditions. Education, however, can also have the opposite impact in the workplace and labour market, an impact that has received only limited attention. In this article we draw together a broad range of literature focusing on youth and entry-level employment in order to analyse the different frames of status, …
No grades in higher education now!Revisiting the place of graded assessment in the reimagination of the public university
The concept of the ‘public university’ has been widely promoted as the principal alternative vision for higher education to the neoliberal, managerialist model that currently prevails. However, if the public university is to serve as the holder for collective ideals of a just, sustainable and democratic future in higher education, then there is a need to think through carefully what this concept actually means in practice, in order that it does n…
On the political economy of youth: A comment
This article is written as a brief comment on a recent discussion that has taken place in the pages of the Journal of Youth Studies on the question of youth, youth studies and political economy, in a series of articles by Côté [2014. “Towards a New Political Economy of Youth.” Journal of Youth Studies 17 (4): 527–543; Côté, J. 2016. “A New Political Economy of Youth Reprised: Rejoinder to France and Threadgold.” Journal of Youth Studies. doi:10.1…
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Reviewed by Ian McGimpsey, Stuart Tannock and Hugh LauderAt the time of writing, the headlines are dominated by Brexit and a phone game called Pokemon Go. A reading of Postcapitalism: A Guide to ou
The deradicalisation of education: Terror, Youth and the Assault on Learning
A high profile anti-radicalisation agenda in schools and other educational institutions throughout Europe has risen in response to terrorist attacks on European countries in the first decades of the twenty-first century. This article looks critically at anti-radicalisation in education, arguing that it needs to be placed in the broader context of ongoing neoliberal educational reform and questioned not just in terms of its dubious efficacy in add…
Youth Rising: The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy
Over the last decade, "youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media and public debates and conflicts across the world – whether as an ideological symbol, social category or political actor. Set against a backdrop of contemporary political economy, Youth Rising? seeks to understand exactly how and why youth has become such a popular and productive social category and concept. The book provocatively argues that the rise and …
Bad attitude? Migrant workers, meat processing work and the local unemployed in a peripheral region of the UK
In the context of financial crisis and recession, concern has grown in the UK and elsewhere over the relationship between labour immigration and indigenous unemployment. This article argues that, to understand this relationship, it is necessary to adopt a historical perspective and examine closely both the experiences and representations of migrant and indigenous workers and the unemployed together, as these develop and evolve in local labour mar…
When the demand for educational equality stops at the border: Wealthy students, international students and the restructuring of higher education in the UK
In the context of the increasing internationalisation of higher education, there is a pressing need to think through how demands for educational equality and justice, that currently tend to be framed at the national and sub-national level, should be conceptualised at a global level. This article compares two recent media and policy debates in the UK, over admitting wealthy students off-quota to university and restricting international student vis…
On the Problem of Over-researched Communities: The Case of the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Concerns about the problem of over-research have been reported in communities around the world, and across a wide range of fields of social science research practice for decades. Yet, despite this, over-research remains under-addressed by social scientists as a significant research concern. In this article, we discuss the problem of over-research as articulated by the residents of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon - a camp w…
Across a thick white line: The relationship of a Welsh medium school and a low income neighbourhood in the south Wales valleys
Two of the most important social policy agendas of the Welsh state in the contemporary period are the attempt to revitalize the Welsh language – through the promotion of Welsh medium education, in particular – and the effort to eliminate regional inequality and poverty – most recently, through the government’s Communities First programme. This article recounts the history of a cool and sometimes fractious relationship between a Welsh medium secon…
Everybody’s Business? A Research Review of the Informal Safeguarding of Other People’s Children in the UK
The paper reviews public discourses and research on the safeguarding of other people’s children by adults at the neighbourhood level. There is much empirical evidence pointing to the existence of thriving informal communities of support and informal childcare for parents across the social classes. There appears to be less empirical evidence related to intervening with children and young people who may be at risk. Nonetheless, the limited evidence…
The positivity imperative: A critical look at the ‘new’ youth development movement
The field of youth development, long given over to discussions of youth as a time of storm and stress, raging hormones and problem behavior, has increasingly turned to look at the ‘sunny side’ of youth – at their agency, insights, capabilities and contributions. Youth, we are now regularly told, are not problems but resources and assets. In this paper, we look critically at the new, positive youth development movement and argue that, although hav…
Radical education and the common school: A democratic alternative
Points of Prejudice: Education-Based Discrimination in Canada's Immigration System
Education and skill are increasingly used by states around the world as a central organizing principle in the regulation of migration flows. Immigration theorists have often claimed that use of education and skill to determine “who should get in” to a country is non-discriminatory, innocent and legitimate. Using the example of Canadian immigration policy, this article argues in contrast that skill-based migration regimes are discriminatory, viola…
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Reviewed by Ian McGimpsey, Stuart Tannock and Hugh LauderAt the time of writing, the headlines are dominated by Brexit and a phone game called Pokemon Go. A reading of Postcapitalism: A Guide to ou
Education, meritocracy and the global war for talent
Talk of the rise of a global war for talent and emergence of a new global meritocracy has spread from the literature on human resource management to shape nation‐state discourse on managed migration and immigration reform. This article examines the implications that the global war for talent have for education policy. Given that this talent war is a product of neoliberalism, it raises many of the same concerns for educators as neoliberalism in ge…
On the Problem of Over-researched Communities: The Case of the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Concerns about the problem of over-research have been reported in communities around the world, and across a wide range of fields of social science research practice for decades. Yet, despite this, over-research remains under-addressed by social scientists as a significant research concern. In this article, we discuss the problem of over-research as articulated by the residents of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon - a camp w…
Subcontracting Academia: Alienation, Exploitation and Disillusionment in the UK Overseas Syrian Refugee Research Industry
As the political economy of social science research has shifted, subcontracted research assistants have taken over an ever growing part of the research process. In this article, we report on a case study of the experiences of local research assistants employed on UK ‐directed research projects on Syrian refugees in Lebanon. While refugee research is framed in the UK as a noble project of helping the world's most vulnerable, these assistants speak…
In the best interests of youth or neoliberalism? The World Bank and the New Global Youth Empowerment Project
Youth, and youth employment especially, have jumped to the forefront of the international development agenda, driven by new funding and reporting priorities of the World Bank and allied international and national aid organisations. Despite the seductive rhetoric of youth empowerment, however, we argue that the new turn to youth serves primarily to serve the goal of insulating the increasingly contested neoliberal project from further political an…
When the demand for educational equality stops at the border: Wealthy students, international students and the restructuring of higher education in the UK
In the context of the increasing internationalisation of higher education, there is a pressing need to think through how demands for educational equality and justice, that currently tend to be framed at the national and sub-national level, should be conceptualised at a global level. This article compares two recent media and policy debates in the UK, over admitting wealthy students off-quota to university and restricting international student vis…
On the political economy of youth: A comment
This article is written as a brief comment on a recent discussion that has taken place in the pages of the Journal of Youth Studies on the question of youth, youth studies and political economy, in a series of articles by Côté [2014. “Towards a New Political Economy of Youth.” Journal of Youth Studies 17 (4): 527–543; Côté, J. 2016. “A New Political Economy of Youth Reprised: Rejoinder to France and Threadgold.” Journal of Youth Studies. doi:10.1…
Bad attitude? Migrant workers, meat processing work and the local unemployed in a peripheral region of the UK
In the context of financial crisis and recession, concern has grown in the UK and elsewhere over the relationship between labour immigration and indigenous unemployment. This article argues that, to understand this relationship, it is necessary to adopt a historical perspective and examine closely both the experiences and representations of migrant and indigenous workers and the unemployed together, as these develop and evolve in local labour mar…
Points of Prejudice: Education-Based Discrimination in Canada's Immigration System
Education and skill are increasingly used by states around the world as a central organizing principle in the regulation of migration flows. Immigration theorists have often claimed that use of education and skill to determine “who should get in” to a country is non-discriminatory, innocent and legitimate. Using the example of Canadian immigration policy, this article argues in contrast that skill-based migration regimes are discriminatory, viola…
The positivity imperative: A critical look at the ‘new’ youth development movement
The field of youth development, long given over to discussions of youth as a time of storm and stress, raging hormones and problem behavior, has increasingly turned to look at the ‘sunny side’ of youth – at their agency, insights, capabilities and contributions. Youth, we are now regularly told, are not problems but resources and assets. In this paper, we look critically at the new, positive youth development movement and argue that, although hav…
The oil industry in our schools: From Petro Pete to science capital in the age of climate crisis
Fossil fuel corporations play a significant role in promoting their interests in schools and other educational institutions, a practice that has recently been labelled as ‘petro-pedagogy.’ But this role goes beyond the production of the pro-petroleum and anti-science corporate propaganda that tends to attract the most critical attention. In this article, I present a case study of the involvement of BP, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel corpo…
The deradicalisation of education: Terror, Youth and the Assault on Learning
A high profile anti-radicalisation agenda in schools and other educational institutions throughout Europe has risen in response to terrorist attacks on European countries in the first decades of the twenty-first century. This article looks critically at anti-radicalisation in education, arguing that it needs to be placed in the broader context of ongoing neoliberal educational reform and questioned not just in terms of its dubious efficacy in add…
Working With Insults: Discourse and Difference in an Inner-City Youth Organization
Over the last few decades in the US, a wide variety of community-based organizations (CBOs) has emerged in response to a sense of failure of mainstream institutions to work with a socially and linguistically diverse population. Discourse analysts have paid little attention to the discursive practices - which often bear little resemblance to conventional institutional discourse - found in CBOs. This article analyzes, as an example of the heterogen…
The problem of education‐based discrimination
While the research, theory and policy literature on race, class and gender discrimination in education is extensive, the problem of education‐based discrimination itself has been widely overlooked. Indeed, the dominant ideologies of meritocracy and human capital (into which we are inculcated throughout our lives by schools, media and the state) proclaim that higher levels of education are and should be linked with greater reward. In a world where…
The global securitisation of youth
This article looks critically at the new global youth, peace and security agenda, that has been marked by the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 in December 2015. It argues that this agenda needs to be situated within the broader context of the securitisation of development, and that the increasing interest in youth as a security subject and actor is shaped by three overlapping sets of global security concerns: the concept…
An inopportune moment: Trade unions, climate crisis and the collapse of labour education in England
A growing number of climate activists and scholars argue that an effective climate movement needs the involvement of the trade union movement, to be able to push forward the radical social transformations required to address the global climate crisis. If workers are to be able to play this kind of role in a global climate movement, a sustained and transformative programme of labour education on the climate crisis will be essential. In England, ho…
No grades in higher education now!Revisiting the place of graded assessment in the reimagination of the public university
The concept of the ‘public university’ has been widely promoted as the principal alternative vision for higher education to the neoliberal, managerialist model that currently prevails. However, if the public university is to serve as the holder for collective ideals of a just, sustainable and democratic future in higher education, then there is a need to think through carefully what this concept actually means in practice, in order that it does n…
Global meritocracy, nationalism and the question of whom we must treat equally for educational opportunity to be equal
No one publicly defends unequal educational opportunity, Christopher Jencks claimed in a well-known article two decades ago. But is this actually true? With the rise of a ‘global war for talent’ and the push by business and political elites for a ‘global meritocracy’, the terrain on which educators work is shifting radically. This article argues that those committed to a politics of equality, justice and inclusion need to resist the urge to hang …
Immigration, education and the new caste society in Britain
We are accustomed to linking education and skill with mobility and opportunity. In recent education, employment and especially immigration policy in Britain, however, the discourse of education and skill is being used to create a segregated and inegalitarian society, in which privileges and rights are granted to a small elite while being denied to the rest of the population. Education and skill, paradoxically, which are supposed to set us free an…
To keep America number 1: Confronting the deep nationalism of US higher education
The Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, told Time magazine recently that America is in ‘an economic war’ with the world and ‘the importance of investing in long‐term research for winning that war hasn’t been understood’. This article argues that such comments are not just metaphorical or unfortunate word choices, but instead reveal deep truths about the role of American universities globally. The fact that peop…
Knowledge for what? Wales, militarisation and the endless promotion of the knowledge economy
The ‘knowledge economy’ has become the buzzword of development policy in the early twenty‐first century. Nations and regions around the world are all told that they must transform themselves into knowledge economies to survive and prosper. This article uses the example of Wales and its recent embrace of a massive military privatisation project in the name of the knowledge economy to illustrate how political and business elites use knowledge econo…
White-collar imperialisms: The H-1B debate in America
Debates over the H-1B visa program and high-skilled immigration more generally in the United States need to be viewed in the context of America's position in the world as global hegemon or imperialist power. While those supporting and those opposing the expansion of the H-1B program may seem to be ideological opposites, both sides often share a common and comfortable assumption of the righteousness of US global domination, privilege and advantage…
I Know What It's Like to Struggle: The Working Lives of Young Students in an Urban Community College
Working youth over the age of 17 are the forgotten workers of 21 st century America. To draw attention to this group of workers, we report a study of the work experiences of young (ages 18-25) com munity college students in Northern California—students who are predominantly working class, immigrant and people of color, and who have long histories of cycling back and forth between work and school. We describe the workplace demands and needs of the…
The education penalty: Schooling, learning and the diminishment of wages, working conditions and worker power
Currently dominant human capital and knowledge economy rhetoric holds that education can raise wages, empower workers and enhance working conditions. Education, however, can also have the opposite impact in the workplace and labour market, an impact that has received only limited attention. In this article we draw together a broad range of literature focusing on youth and entry-level employment in order to analyse the different frames of status, …
Across a thick white line: The relationship of a Welsh medium school and a low income neighbourhood in the south Wales valleys
Two of the most important social policy agendas of the Welsh state in the contemporary period are the attempt to revitalize the Welsh language – through the promotion of Welsh medium education, in particular – and the effort to eliminate regional inequality and poverty – most recently, through the government’s Communities First programme. This article recounts the history of a cool and sometimes fractious relationship between a Welsh medium secon…
Nostalgia critique
Nostalgia is a widespread structure of feeling in Western modernity. While critique of nostalgia has tended to be hostile and dismissive, associating the phenomenon with dominant and conservative forces in society, this paper argues that nostalgia is a valuable way of approaching the past, important to all social groups. Acknowledging the diversity of personal needs and political desires to which nostalgia is a response, the critique offered here…
Positioning the Worker: Discursive Practice in a Workplace Literacy Program
Workers' perspectives have frequently been overlooked and ignored in the development and implementation of workplace literacy programs. Analysis of the classroom discourse of a literacy program run cooperatively by company and union at a US canning factory shows how, even in apparently `worker-centered' efforts, local discursive choices made by instructors may close off opportunities for students/employees to freely express their opinions and ide…
Noisy Talk: Conversation and Collaboration in a Youth Writing Group
Collaborative endeavor has frequently been described by educators and philosophers through an analogy with conversation or dialogue. Conversation, particularly through the work of conversation analysts, has been shown to be thoroughly collaborative. But the active role of conversation in furthering collaborative endeavor has been less frequently examined. Although reformers in schools, universities, and workplaces have become increasingly interes…
Working With Insults: Discourse and Difference in an Inner-City Youth Organization
Over the last few decades in the US, a wide variety of community-based organizations (CBOs) has emerged in response to a sense of failure of mainstream institutions to work with a socially and linguistically diverse population. Discourse analysts have paid little attention to the discursive practices - which often bear little resemblance to conventional institutional discourse - found in CBOs. This article analyzes, as an example of the heterogen…
Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-Food and Grocery Workplace
I Know What It's Like to Struggle: The Working Lives of Young Students in an Urban Community College
Working youth over the age of 17 are the forgotten workers of 21 st century America. To draw attention to this group of workers, we report a study of the work experiences of young (ages 18-25) com munity college students in Northern California—students who are predominantly working class, immigrant and people of color, and who have long histories of cycling back and forth between work and school. We describe the workplace demands and needs of the…
Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-Food and Grocery Workplace
Dead Ends 2. On the Front Lines of the Service Sector Part II: Youth in the Workplace 3. Store-Level Solidarities 4. Age in the Grocery Store 5. Stopgap Work Cultures Part III: Youth in the Union 6. Outsiders in the Union 7. The Youth Union 8. Handling Time Conclusion Notes References Index
To keep America number 1: Confronting the deep nationalism of US higher education
The Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, told Time magazine recently that America is in ‘an economic war’ with the world and ‘the importance of investing in long‐term research for winning that war hasn’t been understood’. This article argues that such comments are not just metaphorical or unfortunate word choices, but instead reveal deep truths about the role of American universities globally. The fact that peop…
In the best interests of youth or neoliberalism? The World Bank and the New Global Youth Empowerment Project
Youth, and youth employment especially, have jumped to the forefront of the international development agenda, driven by new funding and reporting priorities of the World Bank and allied international and national aid organisations. Despite the seductive rhetoric of youth empowerment, however, we argue that the new turn to youth serves primarily to serve the goal of insulating the increasingly contested neoliberal project from further political an…
The problem of education‐based discrimination
While the research, theory and policy literature on race, class and gender discrimination in education is extensive, the problem of education‐based discrimination itself has been widely overlooked. Indeed, the dominant ideologies of meritocracy and human capital (into which we are inculcated throughout our lives by schools, media and the state) proclaim that higher levels of education are and should be linked with greater reward. In a world where…
Global meritocracy, nationalism and the question of whom we must treat equally for educational opportunity to be equal
No one publicly defends unequal educational opportunity, Christopher Jencks claimed in a well-known article two decades ago. But is this actually true? With the rise of a ‘global war for talent’ and the push by business and political elites for a ‘global meritocracy’, the terrain on which educators work is shifting radically. This article argues that those committed to a politics of equality, justice and inclusion need to resist the urge to hang …
Knowledge for what? Wales, militarisation and the endless promotion of the knowledge economy
The ‘knowledge economy’ has become the buzzword of development policy in the early twenty‐first century. Nations and regions around the world are all told that they must transform themselves into knowledge economies to survive and prosper. This article uses the example of Wales and its recent embrace of a massive military privatisation project in the name of the knowledge economy to illustrate how political and business elites use knowledge econo…
White-collar imperialisms: The H-1B debate in America
Debates over the H-1B visa program and high-skilled immigration more generally in the United States need to be viewed in the context of America's position in the world as global hegemon or imperialist power. While those supporting and those opposing the expansion of the H-1B program may seem to be ideological opposites, both sides often share a common and comfortable assumption of the righteousness of US global domination, privilege and advantage…
Putting school commercialism in context: A global history of Junior Achievement Worldwide
The literature on school commercialism, despite a number of successes in battling advertising and marketing in schools, has often seemed to only scratch the surface of corporatization of K‐12 education. While condemning corporations who seek to sell brand‐name products to kids in schools is a relatively straightforward matter, critiquing corporate efforts to promote ideologies, identities, values and agendas to children and youth is far more comp…
Education, meritocracy and the global war for talent
Talk of the rise of a global war for talent and emergence of a new global meritocracy has spread from the literature on human resource management to shape nation‐state discourse on managed migration and immigration reform. This article examines the implications that the global war for talent have for education policy. Given that this talent war is a product of neoliberalism, it raises many of the same concerns for educators as neoliberalism in ge…
Immigration, education and the new caste society in Britain
We are accustomed to linking education and skill with mobility and opportunity. In recent education, employment and especially immigration policy in Britain, however, the discourse of education and skill is being used to create a segregated and inegalitarian society, in which privileges and rights are granted to a small elite while being denied to the rest of the population. Education and skill, paradoxically, which are supposed to set us free an…
The American Federation of Teachers in the Middle East: Teacher Training as Labor Imperialism
The American Federation of Teachers’ (AFT) international program is one of the largest of any labor union in the United States, running operations in countries around the world, from Bolivia to Burma and Kenya to Kazakhstan. In this article, the authors analyze the AFT’s recent interventions in the Middle East and, in particular, Lebanon. Contrary to the AFT’s high-minded rhetoric of global labor solidarity, philanthropic goodwill, and democracy …
Everybody’s Business? A Research Review of the Informal Safeguarding of Other People’s Children in the UK
The paper reviews public discourses and research on the safeguarding of other people’s children by adults at the neighbourhood level. There is much empirical evidence pointing to the existence of thriving informal communities of support and informal childcare for parents across the social classes. There appears to be less empirical evidence related to intervening with children and young people who may be at risk. Nonetheless, the limited evidence…
The positivity imperative: A critical look at the ‘new’ youth development movement
The field of youth development, long given over to discussions of youth as a time of storm and stress, raging hormones and problem behavior, has increasingly turned to look at the ‘sunny side’ of youth – at their agency, insights, capabilities and contributions. Youth, we are now regularly told, are not problems but resources and assets. In this paper, we look critically at the new, positive youth development movement and argue that, although hav…
Radical education and the common school: A democratic alternative
Points of Prejudice: Education-Based Discrimination in Canada's Immigration System
Education and skill are increasingly used by states around the world as a central organizing principle in the regulation of migration flows. Immigration theorists have often claimed that use of education and skill to determine “who should get in” to a country is non-discriminatory, innocent and legitimate. Using the example of Canadian immigration policy, this article argues in contrast that skill-based migration regimes are discriminatory, viola…
Across a thick white line: The relationship of a Welsh medium school and a low income neighbourhood in the south Wales valleys
Two of the most important social policy agendas of the Welsh state in the contemporary period are the attempt to revitalize the Welsh language – through the promotion of Welsh medium education, in particular – and the effort to eliminate regional inequality and poverty – most recently, through the government’s Communities First programme. This article recounts the history of a cool and sometimes fractious relationship between a Welsh medium secon…
Bad attitude? Migrant workers, meat processing work and the local unemployed in a peripheral region of the UK
In the context of financial crisis and recession, concern has grown in the UK and elsewhere over the relationship between labour immigration and indigenous unemployment. This article argues that, to understand this relationship, it is necessary to adopt a historical perspective and examine closely both the experiences and representations of migrant and indigenous workers and the unemployed together, as these develop and evolve in local labour mar…
When the demand for educational equality stops at the border: Wealthy students, international students and the restructuring of higher education in the UK
In the context of the increasing internationalisation of higher education, there is a pressing need to think through how demands for educational equality and justice, that currently tend to be framed at the national and sub-national level, should be conceptualised at a global level. This article compares two recent media and policy debates in the UK, over admitting wealthy students off-quota to university and restricting international student vis…
On the Problem of Over-researched Communities: The Case of the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Concerns about the problem of over-research have been reported in communities around the world, and across a wide range of fields of social science research practice for decades. Yet, despite this, over-research remains under-addressed by social scientists as a significant research concern. In this article, we discuss the problem of over-research as articulated by the residents of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon - a camp w…
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