Unwritten: (re)imagining FE as social purpose education

Abstract

Drawing on stories from ten years of social purpose teacher education in the UK, this paper assumes that the future of further education is still unwritten. It illustrates complex and workable ideas via a theorised sketch of the fictional Bee Learning Programme, an imagined education setting of the future. The narrative that follows is designed to provoke.

Keywords:

• Multi-disciplinary
• Utopian
• posthuman
• rhizomatic
• social purpose
• digital
• open resource
• postcapitalist
• hegemony

Notes

1. For an initial exploration start with www.infed.org and follow the links out. Although not a wiki, infed is a non-profit, crowd-sourced initiative, which reflects the values of social purpose education.