Autobiography of a bolshie dismissed!

FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 67 Number 1 (2025)

Autobiography of a bolshie dismissed!
Dave Hill pages 53‑68
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2025.67.1.06

Abstract

In this article I detail my work career in education in schools, further education and in higher education between 1967 and 2015. I have been moved on – dismissed, ‘made redundant’, displaced – from five of seven of my teaching and lecturing jobs. I relate this to my activism as a trade union rep, as a political activist, and as a critical educator and academic activist. I briefly relate this also to my working-class background. Here I detail these involvements – in NATFHE (the union), in the Labour Party as an elected representative, and in academic-political work, such as critical education curricula I (co-)developed and taught, the Hillcole group of radical left educators, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies and the International Conference on Critical Education. A subsequent article will relate this Marxist activism to my working-class background and implantation, and to a particular type of working-class background.

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Dave Hill (2025) Autobiography of a bolshie dismissed!, FORUM, 67(1), 53-68 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2025.67.1.06

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