From info at edu-factory.org  Thu May  6 04:28:30 2010
From: info at edu-factory.org (info at edu-factory.org)
Date: Thu,  6 May 2010 04:28:30 +0200
Subject: <editorial board> first issue
Message-ID: <L1Z87I$2CF7C25C4A150F94C870AC08175B0000@aruba.it>

Dear all,
 
Following the postings on this list there has been some discussion in the edufactory collective about the call for the first journal issue. As a result we have redrafted the call to include a section devoted to the 'system of measure'. As you will see there is still a section about new universities and the global transition of higher education. We would now like to invite discusssion of the new call. 
 
In order to realise this first issue of the journal it is very important that members of the editorial board assist in the production process. This doesn't necessarily mean involvement in proof reading, editing or other tasks that require a high level of proficiency in the English language. First of all we need assistance to locate authors who can write to the issues identified in the call. Perhaps some of you are able to make contributions or perhaps you can suggest others who might be available. Geert has made the suggestion of a collectively written text on the issue of peer review and alternatives to it. We think this is a great idea and that this list could be used to develop such a text. Perhaps Geert or Gerald (who also had some comments about measure) are able to make some first steps here. Interviews and dialogues are fine ... the text would have to take its form. 
 
In any case, please share your ideas about the suggested journal issue and help us to locate potential authors, particularly for texts about new universities in countries like India, China, Brazil, Egypt and Russia. 
 
Many thanks, 
 
edu-factory collective 
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From n.puwar at gold.ac.uk  Thu May  6 10:37:58 2010
From: n.puwar at gold.ac.uk (Nirmal Puwar)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:37:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: <editorial board> first issue
In-Reply-To: <L1Z87I$2CF7C25C4A150F94C870AC08175B0000@aruba.it>
References: <L1Z87I$2CF7C25C4A150F94C870AC08175B0000@aruba.it>
Message-ID: <1324.82.45.204.98.1273135078.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk>

Hi All

Thank you for pulling this together.

The term 'New Universities' indexes a long standing development in the UK
between different types of universities, namely post-1992 legislation
institutions. So when I first read 'New Universities' I thought it was
confined to those universities. This for instance, would include Middlesex
but not Queen Mary or Goldsmiths.

Can I suggest the term 'New Universities' is changed, perhaps to
Innovating the University or University Transitions in Measure

I am sure there will be other suggestions.

As for contributors - Mary Evans who wrote 'Killing Thinking' would be a
good person to ask. She used to be a Head of Dept in Sociology and Social
Policy. M.S.Evans at kent.ac.uk

Ravi Sundaram from Sarai
http://www.sarai.net/

best
Nirmal

On Thu, May 6, 2010 3:28 am, info\@edu-factory\.org wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> Following the postings on this list there has been some discussion in the
> edufactory collective about the call for the first journal issue. As a
> result we have redrafted the call to include a section devoted to the
> 'system of measure'. As you will see there is still a section about new
> universities and the global transition of higher education. We would now
> like to invite discusssion of the new call.
>
> In order to realise this first issue of the journal it is very important
> that members of the editorial board assist in the production process.
> This doesn't necessarily mean involvement in proof reading, editing or
> other tasks that require a high level of proficiency in the English
> language. First of all we need assistance to locate authors who can write
> to the issues identified in the call. Perhaps some of you are able to
> make contributions or perhaps you can suggest others who might be
> available. Geert has made the suggestion of a collectively written text
> on the issue of peer review and alternatives to it. We think this is a
> great idea and that this list could be used to develop such a text.
> Perhaps Geert or Gerald (who also had some comments about measure) are
> able to make some first steps here. Interviews and dialogues are fine ...
> the text would have to take its form.
>
> In any case, please share your ideas about the suggested journal issue
> and help us to locate potential authors, particularly for texts about new
> universities in countries like India, China, Brazil, Egypt and Russia.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> edu-factory collective _______________________________________________
> agu mailing list agu at listcultures.org
> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/agu_listcultures.org
>
>


Dr Nirmal Puwar
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, London University.
Co-organiser of Methods Lab
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/






From n.puwar at gold.ac.uk  Thu May  6 17:53:35 2010
From: n.puwar at gold.ac.uk (Nirmal Puwar)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:53:35 +0100 (BST)
Subject: <editorial board> first issue
In-Reply-To: <1324.82.45.204.98.1273135078.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk>
References: <L1Z87I$2CF7C25C4A150F94C870AC08175B0000@aruba.it>
	<1324.82.45.204.98.1273135078.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <2447.82.45.204.98.1273161215.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk>

other things published on university transitions

Now available at
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/8/issue8_2.asp
<http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/8/issue8_2.asp>


POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 8 Number 2 2010  ISSN 1478-2103

SPECIAL ISSUE
THE UNIVERSITY IN TRANSITION
Guest Editor: GARETT GIETZEN

Garett Gietzen. Introduction. Challenges and Possibilities for Today's
University

Michael A. Peters. Re-imagining the University in the Global Era

Garett Gietzen. Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard and the Question of Disciplinary
Legitimacy

Stephanie Mackler. From the Positivist to the Hermeneutic University:
restoring the
place of meaning and liberal learning in higher education

Casey E. George-Jackson. The Cosmopolitan University: the medium toward
global
citizenship and justice

Rodrigo Britez & Michael A. Peters. Internationalization and the
Cosmopolitical
University

Daniel Araya. Cultural Democracy: universities in the creative economy

BOOK EXCERPT
Henry A. Giroux. Challenging the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
after 9/11.
Introduction to University in Chains: confronting the
military-industrial-academic
complex (Paradigm Publishers, 2007)

REVIEW ESSAY
Eugenie A. Samier. The Evolution of the Modern University: from
scholarship to
disenchanted economic handmaiden

OBAMA'S AMERICA
Michael A. Peters. Economics Trumps Politics; Market Trumps Democracy: the US
Supreme Court's decision on campaign financing

BOOK REVIEWS
Higher Learning, Greater Good: the private and social benefits of higher
education
(Walter W. McMahon), reviewed by Jennifer A. Delaney & Patricia Yu
Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy (George Fallis), reviewed by David J.
Ondercin

On Thu, May 6, 2010 9:37 am, Nirmal Puwar wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> Thank you for pulling this together.
>
>
> The term 'New Universities' indexes a long standing development in the UK
>  between different types of universities, namely post-1992 legislation
> institutions. So when I first read 'New Universities' I thought it was
> confined to those universities. This for instance, would include
> Middlesex
> but not Queen Mary or Goldsmiths.
>
> Can I suggest the term 'New Universities' is changed, perhaps to
> Innovating the University or University Transitions in Measure
>
>
> I am sure there will be other suggestions.
>
>
> As for contributors - Mary Evans who wrote 'Killing Thinking' would be a
> good person to ask. She used to be a Head of Dept in Sociology and Social
> Policy. M.S.Evans at kent.ac.uk
>
>
> Ravi Sundaram from Sarai
> http://www.sarai.net/
>
>
> best Nirmal
>
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 3:28 am, info\@edu-factory\.org wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Following the postings on this list there has been some discussion in
>> the edufactory collective about the call for the first journal issue. As
>> a result we have redrafted the call to include a section devoted to the
>> 'system of measure'. As you will see there is still a section about new
>>  universities and the global transition of higher education. We would
>> now like to invite discusssion of the new call.
>>
>> In order to realise this first issue of the journal it is very
>> important that members of the editorial board assist in the production
>> process. This doesn't necessarily mean involvement in proof reading,
>> editing or other tasks that require a high level of proficiency in the
>> English
>> language. First of all we need assistance to locate authors who can
>> write to the issues identified in the call. Perhaps some of you are able
>> to make contributions or perhaps you can suggest others who might be
>> available. Geert has made the suggestion of a collectively written text
>>  on the issue of peer review and alternatives to it. We think this is a
>>  great idea and that this list could be used to develop such a text.
>> Perhaps Geert or Gerald (who also had some comments about measure) are
>> able to make some first steps here. Interviews and dialogues are fine
>> ...
>> the text would have to take its form.
>>
>> In any case, please share your ideas about the suggested journal issue
>> and help us to locate potential authors, particularly for texts about
>> new universities in countries like India, China, Brazil, Egypt and
>> Russia.
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> edu-factory collective _______________________________________________
>> agu mailing list agu at listcultures.org
>> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/agu_listcultures.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Dr Nirmal Puwar
> Department of Sociology
> Goldsmiths, London University.
> Co-organiser of Methods Lab
> http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> agu mailing list agu at listcultures.org
> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/agu_listcultures.org
>
>


Dr Nirmal Puwar
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, London University.
Co-organiser of Methods Lab
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/