Making a Co-operative University: a new form of knowing - not public but social
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 61 Number 2 (2019)
Making a Co-operative University: a new form of knowing - not public but social
MIKE NEARY, JOSS WINN pages 271-280
DOI: 10.15730/forum.2019.61.2.271
Abstract
Calls to establish public education avoid the fact that public education is provided by the capitalist state whose real purpose is the market-based model of private gain. Public against private education is a false dichotomy; rather, public and private are complementary forms of capitalist regulation. Radical alternatives require a more foundational critique of the structures of capitalist education, grounded in an understanding of the contradictory relationship between capital and labour on which the institutions of capitalist civilisation are based. This article suggests a counter project: not public education but social knowing as the basis for a solidaristic form of social life. Our model for social knowing starts with the idea of a co-operative university.
To cite this article
MIKE NEARY, JOSS WINN (2019) Making a Co-operative University: a new form of knowing - not public but social, FORUM, 61(2), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2019.61.2.271