You are extremely fortunate , Johannes, be working in the UK in a place it
hasn't reached -it is enshrined in law. I can only assume that someone at your
institution is resisting its implementation, or that it simply hasn't been
implemented there yet . Is poke earlier to a friend at South Bank University
and it hasn't reached them yet. Or maybe the union is strong at your place - at
ours it is, sadly, not
I don't think you should be under any illusion that unless it is resisted it
*will* eventually reach you and your students.Of course the reason that I have
chosen to take the stand I have is that I want only to carry out " my duties as
tutor(s ) educational and pastoral in the sense of caring for the
well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students" and likewise
that I find an" anti muslim policy completely unsupportable".
cheersmichael
From: Johannes Birringer <johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
dear all
never heard of it. when doing some fact checking, 'prevent' seems to have been
a government counter terrorist initiative,
for the past ten years, not entirely successful I read. But in the arts and
educational arenas where I work, it's not a factor nor has anyone
ever approached me to do any such reporting on any 'signs of radicalization' ;
our duties as tutors are educational and pastoral in the sense of caring for the
well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students (and an
anti-muslim policy, that you discern, Michael,
would be completely unsupportable and unsupported at my school). respectfully,
Johannes
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From: Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?
thanks, Alan
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>
> Sigh!
> Ruth
>
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> Hi all
> the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
> the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
> made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
> ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
> put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
> attend.
>
> In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
> management and copied in the UCU ( the lecturers union)
> membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
> unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
> about things.
> I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
> manager.
> I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
> support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
> commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
> campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
> email:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
>
>
> and here's the latest exchange:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
>
> please feel free to circulate this
>
> many thanks
> michael
>
>
>
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