2012 Public Lecture

The Future of Radical EducationProf Michael Fielding

A practice that aspires to illuminate our present circumstances and the

conditions of their historical emergence, to facilitate the

flourishing of possibilities for people to imagine and govern their own

collective futures, and to better the chances that these will be humane.

What is the Social Science Centre?

An independent educational co-operative that works to produce critical knowledge in order to improve the quality of our collective social life.

The Centre is run as a not-for-profit co-operative. This means that we strive to organise it on the basis of democratic, non-hierachical, consensus-oriented principles, with all members – student-scholars and teacher-scholars alike – having equal involvement in how the Centre operates.

Members of the SSC - Scholars - work across the fields of Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, History, Journalism and Visual Arts to pose critical questions about the world, understand complex social problems and act on situations on everyday life.

A core principle of the Centre is that teacher-scholars and student-scholars have much to learn from each other.

The co-operative principles on which the management of the Centre is based extend to the ways in which courses are taught and research is conducted.

The SSC is entirely self-funded. The Centre accepts monies, and other forms of ‘payment in kind’, from donors who share our ethics and values. Members will donate their time and expertise freely and will not receive any payment.

Student-scholars will not earn a university degree through their studies, but will produce a peer-reviewed portfolio of work and receive a certificate in higher education, along with a written transcript detailing their academic, intellectual, and where relevant their social and political accomplishments

2012 Public Lecture

The Future of Radical Education

Prof Michael Fielding