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Professional Issues. 1729423.jpg 617×462 pixels. Economics & Politics. Values. Viva los Misfitos! One of the joys of my #rhizo14 ‘uncourse’ experience was its unexpected alleyways.
I did not anticipate that my weekend would begin by listening to a BBC podcast about Louise Michel, heroine of the 1871 Paris Commune, but I’m very glad it did (thanks @fredgarnett) . Michel was referred to as an iconoclast and the broadcaster amplified this by describing how she took her teaching back to first principles, unwilling to accept the norms of education in that time and place. Are we iconoclasts? Unwilling to accept the norms of education at this time and in this place? Peeling education hegemonies back to first principles? This metaphor of iconoclasm fits well with one of the #rhizo14 themes of embracing uncertainty. So it goes in teaching and in learning.
…we just didn’t expect the gatecrashers. You will always find them, in the kitchen, at parties. Well yes. The iconoclastic rhizome is the curriculum making this possible. What sustains our iconoclasm? Watch out Pavlov. Like this: JCP pix for SC presentation. Operatic society in Wombwell. Get IT Together at JCP. Mentor. Independent thinking. Politics. Plookit : As valid today as in 1945. Labour is part of the problem, not the solution. Every day the Guardian publishes accounts of desperate poverty and attacks on welfare provision.
We know of the food banks, the plight of disabled people and the housing crisis that affects so many. We know of the propaganda to make the poorest people scapegoats for economic failure. We recognise the hypocrisy of Cameron's "moral mission". We know that housing support goes to rich landlords, that benefits for the working poor subsidise employers who pay poverty wages. We read that benefit fraud is a tiny fraction of the overall welfare budget, far less than unclaimed benefits, and is nothing compared to the amount lost through tax dodging.
The coalition parties proclaim the importance of the market economy. The demands of the competitive market are remorseless: reduce the cost of labour; privatise everything; remove protection from working people, and maintain a pool of unemployed to discipline those lucky enough to have a job. History suggests it cannot.
Tony Benn, veteran Labour politician, dies aged 88. Tony Benn – the lodestar for the Labour left for decades, orator, campaigner, diarist and grandfather – has died aged 88 after a long illness, his family has announced.
Tributes poured in for one the country's most extraordinary and controversial MPs, who, in what he described as the blazing autumn of his career outside Westminster, came to be regarded as an anti-establishment voice for democracy. Although he said self-deprecatingly in one of his later interviews: "All political careers end in failure; mine just happened to end earlier than most," many regarded his final decades outside Westminster with greatest affection.
In a statement, his children Stephen, Hilary, Melissa and Joshua said: "It is with great sadness that we announce that our father Tony Benn died peacefully early this morning at his home in west London surrounded by his family. "We will miss above all his love which has sustained us throughout our lives. "Tony Benn spoke his mind and spoke up for his values. Scapegoats.