4 results on '"Cowden, Stephen"'
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2. Community cohesion, communitarianism and neoliberalism.
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COWDEN, STEPHEN and SINGH, GURNAM
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COUNTERTERRORISM ,COMMUNITIES ,CONFORMITY ,ISLAM ,CULTURAL pluralism ,RELIGION ,SOCIAL control ,SOCIAL integration ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Policy discourse around 'community cohesion' has displaced liberal multiculturalist and anti-racist approaches with a much narrower focus on the promotion of 'British values' and, for minority communities, through a 'faith' agenda. We argue that these developments derive from the predominance of the doctrine of communitarianism within the contemporary policy terrain, influencing both New Labour and the Conservatives. The convergence of this with neoliberal social and economic imperatives has created a discourse of 'conditional citizenship' for Muslim communities particularly. There is a major policy contradiction where faith based approaches are promoted on one hand, but, in the context of transnational Islamist terror, lead to whole Muslim communities being pathologised as 'insufficiently British' on the other. We discuss the 'Trojan Horse schools' affair in Birmingham in 2014 as an example of this. We conclude in calling for an urgent refocussing of the debate toward secular approaches in policy, alongside looking at the specific economic and social conditions that we argue are the root cause of breakdowns in community cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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3. Critical Reflection: An Imperative Skill for Social Work Practice in Neoliberal Organisations?
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Morley, Christine, O'Bree, Charlie, and Parton, Nigel
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SOCIAL services ,CRITICAL thinking ,NEOLIBERALISM ,SOCIAL justice ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
Social work practice and education have been significantly impacted by neoliberal governmentality, which can greatly undermine the espoused social justice mission of social work. This study explores the research questions: How might critical reflection support social work practice in neoliberal organisations? And how might critical analysis using insights from critical theorists fortify the findings of critically reflective research? This study uses critical reflection on a critical incident (from Author 2's practice) as a methodology to respond to the first research question. It further analyses the findings of the critically reflective inquiry by drawing on relevant concepts from critical theorists to respond to the second question and expand the possibilities for practitioners to develop emancipatory practices in neoliberal organisations. The findings suggest critical reflection on the critical incident examined was effective in improving social work practice, and that additional critical analysis of the wider issues raised by the research findings may enhance social work as a value-driven, client-centred and social change-oriented profession. The article highlights the benefits and outcomes of working in a critically reflective way, and makes an original contribution to the growing literature that suggests critical reflection is a vital skill for social work practice in neoliberal organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation : A Festschrift in Memory of Joyce Canaan
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Shirin Housee, Maisuria Alpesh, Stephen Cowden, Gordon Asher, Shirin Housee, Maisuria Alpesh, Stephen Cowden, and Gordon Asher
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- Socialism and education, Neoliberalism, Critical pedagogy, Education--Aims and objectives
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An extraordinary tribute to the visions of Joyce Canaan, a vibrant academic activist who touched so many with her intellect, her acuity, her humanity and her love. Anyone interested in critical pedagogy has to read this inspiring book that takes so many slices on what the university has become and what it still might be. (Professor Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley) This Festschrift is a beautiful tribute to Joyce Canaan, a woman whose revolutionary intellect and commitment should be treasured and studied, not only remembered. Each contribution illuminates her voice and expands on her spirit. The result is a volume that traces how we learn in the pursuit for justice, through building and sharing knowledge within a community of struggle. This is an important volume for any student of revolutionary and feminist education. (Sara Carpenter, Department of Educational Studies, University of Alberta) After the great global «pause», this volume presents an exciting look forward through the memory of boundary crosser, Joyce Canaan, whose life's work scrutinized the impact of neoliberal regimes of accountability and the academy's compliance with these processes. Collectively, the contributors warn of cultural myopia: that cultural near-sightedness that stands in the way of critical engagement with exclusionary mechanisms at both the pedagogic and economic levels. (Sheila Landers Macrine, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Joyce Canaan's life illustrates what it means to be angry at social injustice and to challenge it through theory and practice, spirit and emotion, intellectual rigour, love and humour. This collection movingly and rigorously celebrates her personal contribution through engaging with contemporary issues for critical pedagogy today. (Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh) Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation: A Festschrift in Memory of Joyce Canaan offers its readers a powerful vision of how radical educational praxis based on genuine dialogue and solidarity can «humanise» both learners'and teachers'experience of education and invigorate revolutionary and socialist democratic politics of the Left. The book is written as a celebration of the legacy of Professor Joyce Canaan (1950–2018), a radical intellectual and feminist. The contributors take her project of critical pedagogical scholar-activism as their common point of departure, developing themes – drawing in particular on public sociology, social movement and popular education, as well as critical pedagogy – around critiques of the neoliberal university, popular and working-class educational movements, feminism, anti-racism, climate justice, critical theory and politically engaged teaching, learning and research.
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- 2022
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