(Re)humanising the University: an Alternative Coventry – Strike Teach-Out

Coventry UCU members will be organising a teach-out, entitled ‘(Re)humanising the University: an Alternative Coventry’, enabling staff and students to be engaged and enjoy high-quality education in an alternative setting. 

Are you a Coventry academic, educator, researcher or professional staff — would you like to suggest a session/conversation to run while on strike? Let us know!

(Re)humanising the University: an Alternative Coventry 

The concept behind ‘(Re)humanising the University’ is that we exist at a time where we have lost a sense of community and academic collective.  We feel that now is the time to explore and move beyond the current idea of a university as a corporation, a mechanism with all its processes and a conduit to convey information to students, which has in turn dehumanized us as staff and the idea of the university. Instead we want to focus on cognition and bring back humanity into the soulless university.  Why don’t we come together to explore what we want our university to be?

 The time has come to (re)humanise our university!

Deadline for proposals is the end of Thursday 23 January 7pm.

Themes

We are looking for sessions/conversations which directly relate to the strike/teach out on themes like critical pedagogy, alternative economics, human rights and justice, environment and ecosystems, sustainability, mental health, etc.

Possible themes might include:

  • What is the university and it’s values?
  • Ethics, ethics of care, morals, philosophy
  • Critical pedagogy, pedagogy of the oppressed
  • Alternative metrics
  • Neoliberalism and its alternatives
  • Industrial relations
  • Governance through staff assemblies
  • Cooperative universities and other alternatives
  • Literatures of resistance/everyday resistance
  • Social movements
  • Collectives
  • Human connectivity

Format:

  • Sessions can run for 50 minutes max between 1000-1300, January 28th and 29th.
  • Remember – you have the freedom to craft your session/conversation any way you like but please remember to critical, creative, energetic, and engaging! And of course, fun!
  • And don’t forget to be creative!

Email us if you are a Coventry UCU member and interested in running a session/conversation or if you’d like more information: ucu@coventry.ac.uk.

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