Saturday arrangements

[joel lazarus]

Dear all,

I'm glad to say that momentum seems to be growing for Saturday.
Some practical things...

1) It would be great if some people could try to get to the Oaklands Centre for 10am so we can be ready for 11. I will be there at 10, so will Joyce. Any others?

2) Joyce will be bringing the refreshments

3) I will bring the stationary requirements. Mel, what exactly do we need, do you think? Let's base it on around 25-30 participants.

4) Joyce and I thought an entrance fee of £5 for waged and £2 for non-waged would be appropriate. Of course, it depends on the number that turns up. Hopefully, it should turn out cheaper than that.

5) Mel will kindly lead what I think will be an open, democratic approach to developing an agenda for the day.

6) Whoever wants to, we can go for drinks and a curry afterwards. Joyce and I felt that we could perhaps find a bring-your-own-drink place which would be cheaper and perhaps waged people could subsidize unwaged either by buying their drink or their food.

Thanks
Joel

[Gail Chester]

Dear all,

 

I am looking forward to joining you on Saturday.  I have not written sooner because I have been having serious computer problems since the end of January, now hopefully resolved, and this also means I have only been able to read the e-mails you've been sending intermittently.

 

So, I would be grateful if you could circulate again in the body of an e-mail the address and other details, especially lunch arrangements, of where we are meeting on Saturday. I shall be staying with a friend on Priory Road, Edgbaston on Friday night, so would like to know how long it will take to get to you and the best method of doing this.

 

There are two things I would really like to have on the agenda:

1. The position of gender/women's studies, both as a historical practice we can learn from, and to discuss possibilities for how to make sure it is incorporated into current activities.

2. The current academic boycott of Elsevier journals.  My field of scholarship is the politics of communication, broadly interpreted, and I believe this development is an interesting opportunity to make common cause between people who remain within the mainstream academy and those who are critiquing it from the outside.

 

I think I noticed that you have an item on the agenda already which addresses the question of definitions of which areas of education this group might concentrate on, but if it is not there, I think it should be.

 

Also, I think you were asking if anybody could do something on the history of radical education.  If there is nobody else, I could possibly do a very sketchy 5-10 minutes outline of this -- I am totally not an expert, but I could mention some initiatives I know of/have heard of.

 

Best wishes, Gail

[joel lazarus]

Gail

Thanks so much for your mail and your suggestions.
I've no doubt that we can and should have these items on the agenda, certainly the first one.
It would be good for someone to do a brief historical guide to radical education in the UK. Thanks for your offer here.

Looking forward to meeting you on Sat
Joel

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From: gailc...@blueyonder.co.uk
To: freeuniv...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Saturday arrangements
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:48:29 +0000

[canaan joyce]

directions from Edgbaston . . . unless the number 11 bus goes from there--and ask your friends if it does (as it runs on Church Lane which is at the top of the road where the Oaklands Centre is), the best way to get to the Oaklands is via a taxi.
If people are coming form city centre, there is a bus, the 16, which goes from across the road from House of Fraser on Corporation Street. It is a 10 minute bus ride and on a saturday either the 16 or 16A will be running every 10 minutes.  Ask the driver to let you off at the crossroad of Church Lane and Handsworth Wood Road.
To get to Corporation Street from New Street station, go up the escalator and at the top go left  for about 100 feet, and then left for about 50 feet, then right, past Holland and Barretts, down the ramp and straight ahead. to the bus stop.

It is actually very easy!
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Saturday!
Joyce

[Gail Chester]

Could I clarify, please - the event is happening at the Oaklands Centre on Church Lane? Is that Birmingham 6, Birmingham 20 or Birmingham 33? And what number Church Lane?

 

Thanks, Gail

[Joyce Canaan]

It is the Oaklands Centre, 35 Winleigh Road, Birmingham B20. I have given complete details to Joel who will send them out shortly.

Joyce

From: Gail Chester <gailc...@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:05:56 -0000
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Subject: Re: Saturday arrangements