Overview describing "the deeply thoughtful and critical nature of the autonomous, inclusive student movements that are emerging in the face of the Coalition's cuts agenda." Interestingly, it looks a lot like what we've been describing here: "A university based on the principle of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space." It's Europe, so the movement is firmly rooted in theory. That's not a bad thing, as it provides a point of view from which to consider the wider implications of curriculum and the relationships between students and academics. "Part of the beauty of these examples is their interconnectedness and their lack of a formal, social media strategy or of institutionalisation. That these on-line spaces are being colonised, de-marketised, and re-claimed, offers us hope beyond the issue of education cuts, for wider opposition to the increasing enclosure and privatisation of the web."
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