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IEPS Writers' Biographies
Dave Hill
Dave Hill teaches at the University of Northampton, and lives in Brighton. Prior to that he taught in schools and colleges in inner-city London and in West Sussex. For twenty years he was a political and labour union leader. He stood for Parliament for the Labour Party in 1979 and 1987, led the group of Labour Councillors on East Sussex County Council, was Regional Higher Education Chair of NATFHE (the lecturer's labour Union), and led and organised many local and regional political campaigns and mobilisations. He advised the Labour Party on teacher education from a radical Left perspective. From a democratic socialist perspective, he writes on issues of Radical Right policy and ideology, New Labour/Third Way ideology and policy, Radical Left ideology and policy, social class, state theory, and critique of postmodernism. With Mike Cole, in 1989, he co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators and co-wrote the two Hillcole books on education: Changing the Future: Redprint for Education (1991), and Rethinking Education and Democracy: A Socialist Perspective (1997) (both Tufnell Press). With Mike Cole, Dave Hill co-edited a trilogy of books on schooling, the curriculum and equality: Promoting Equality in Primary Schools (Cassell, 1997), Promoting Equality in Secondary Schools (Cassell, 1999) and Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy (Kogan Page, 2001). His most recent edited books, with the other co-editors of this volume, are Postmodernism in Educational Theory: Education and the Politics of Human Resistance (Tufnell Press, 1999), and the substantially revised version, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Lexington Books, 2002). His most recent books, written with Mike Cole, Peter McLaren and Glenn Rikowski, are Red Chalk: on Schooling, Capitalism and Politics (Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2001) and Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy (Kogan Page, 2002. He has eight books being published in 2006-2007 on education policy, globalization, neoliberalism, social class, and resistance. He directs the e-institute, the Institute for Education Policy Studies (www.ieps.org.uk) and is Chief Editor of the international refereed academic journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com). Contact: dave.hill@northampton.ac.uk or dave.hill35@btopenworld.com Glenn Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski was Senior Research Fellow in Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Central England in Birmingham from 1999-2001. From 1994-99, he was Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Prior to that, Glenn taught in schools and in further education colleges. Currently he is visiting lecturer at University College Northampton. He held Visiting Lectureships at the University of North London, the University of Hertfordshire and the University of London, Institute of Education in the early 1990s. His Ph.D. research (1989) was on the recruitment of engineering apprentices. Glenn's subsequent research included studies on working students, college finance, vocational education and training, youth labour markets and Education Action Zones. He has worked on research projects for the OECD, FEDA and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In 1999, he undertook a major study of the UK horological industry for The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, with special reference to horological training. In the last few years, Rikowski has written articles and conference papers on Marxist educational theory, labour power, lifelong learning, time and speed. His most recent books are Red Chalk: on Schooling, Capitalism and Politics written with Mike Cole, Dave Hill and Peter McLaren (Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2001) and The Battle in Seattle: its Significance for Education (London: Tufnell Press, 2001). Together with Dave Hill, Peter McLaren and Mike Cole he is co-editor of Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Tufnell Press, 1999) and Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Lexingotn Books, 2002). He has published major articles on Marxist educational theory in The British Journal of Sociology of Education. He lives in London. Contact: rikowski@tiscali.co.uk Paula Allman
Paula Allman is the author of Revolutionary Social Transformation: Democratic Hopes, Political Possibilities and Critical Education (Bergin & Garvey, 1999). Her latest book (in press) is Critical Education Against Global Capital: Karl Marx and Revolutionary Critical Education (Bergin & Garvey, 2001).She has written extensively on Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci contributions to radical/critical education and also on Marx's influence on these two radical educators. Her latest book is Revolutionary Social Transformation: Democratic Hopes, Political Possibilities anc Critical Education (Bergin & Garvey, 2001) Paula is originally from the US, but has lived in England since 1973. She has taught in a wide variety of contexts including high schools, junior high schools, adult education and universities in the US and infant schools and universities in the UK. After working as Social Science Staff Tutor for the East Midlands Region of the Open University, she joined The School of Continuing Education at The University of Nottingham where for several years she was the Course Co-Tutor for the Diploma in Adult Education and the M.Ed. in Continuing Education. (Both the Diploma and the M.Ed. courses were based on a Paulo Freire's philosophical approach to education and were, as a consequence, aimed at the preparation of critical educators.) Besides trying to integrate her political activism into her educational work, she has been primarily active in social movements -- in the US, the Civil Rights and anti-war movements, and in the UK, she was the first co-chairperson for Nottingham CND. She was also active in the education sub-group of The Socialist Movement. In 1997 she took ill-health early retirement due to chronic spinal disease, but remains actively committed through her research and writing. At present, she is an Honorary Research Fellow in The School of Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham, England. Contact: paula.allman@nottingham.ac.uk Mike Cole
Mike Cole is Senior Lecturer and Research and Publications Mentor in the School of Education, University of Brighton. He has written extensively on equality issues; in particular, equality and education. In recent years he has engaged in critiques of postmodernism, globalisation and education. Mike has edited Bowles and Gintis Revisited (Routledge-Falmer, 1988), The Social Contexts of Schooling (Falmer Press, 1989), Education for Equality (Routledge, 1990), Migrant Labour in the European Union (Berg, 1999), Education, Equality and Human Rights (Falmer Press, 2000) and Professional Issues for Teachers and Student Teachers (1999, David Fulton). With Dave Hill, Mike co-edited Promoting Equality in Primary Schools (Cassell, 1997) and Promoting Equality in Secondary Schools (Cassell, 1999) and is co-editing Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy (Kogan Page, 2001). His most recent book, written with Dave Hill, Peter McLaren and Glenn Rikowski, is Red Chalk: on Schooling, Capitalism and Politics (Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2001). Together with Dave Hill, Peter McLaren and Glenn Rikowski he is co-editor of Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Tufnell Press, 1999) and Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Lexingotn Books, 2002). Mike co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators with Dave Hill in 1989. He is a labour union activist. Contact: m.c.cole@brighton.ac.uk Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren is Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He worked for 6 years as a public school teacher in his native Toronto, Canada, where he also served as a journalist for the teachers' union, authoring a regular column, "Inner City Insight". After teaching for a year in the College of Education at Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, McLaren moved to the United States, where he has worked since 1985. He is former Director of the Centre for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio, where he also held the position of Renowned Scholar-in-Residence in the School of Education and Allied Professions. Peter McLaren is author and editor of over thirty books on the sociology of education, critical theory, and critical pedagogy. His most recent books include Schooling as a Ritual Performance (3rd Edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), Revolutionary Multiculturalism (Westview Press, 1997) and Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). McLaren's books have been translated into twelve languages. He lectures worldwide on the politics of liberation. McLaren is currently working on an introductory book on Karl Marx (with Rudolfo Torres and Lou Miron) and a book on globalisation and imperialism (with Ramin Farahmandpur). His most recent book, written with Mike Cole, Dave Hill and Glenn Rikowski, is Red Chalk: on Schooling, Capitalism and Politics (Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2001). Together with Dave Hill, Glenn Rikowski and Mike Cole he is co-editor of Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Tufnell Press, 1999) and Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (Lexingotn Books, 2002). He is a member of the California Consortium of Critical Educators and the Paulo Friere Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Contact: mclaren@gseis.ucla.edu Shahrzad Mojab
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab, Associate Professor, teaches at the Department of Adult Education, Community Development, and Counselling Psychology, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her speciality includes: educational policy studies with focus on policies affecting the academic life of marginalized groups in universities; comparative and international adult education policy; adult education, globalization and learning. Her areas of research and teaching are: critical and feminist pedagogy; power and difference in the workplace; women, state, globalization and citizenship; women, war, violence and learning; and comparative analysis of lifelong learning theory and practice. She has conducted extensive research on immigrant women's access to employment and training in Canada and the impact of war and violence on women's learning in the diaspora. Her publications include, among others, articles and book chapters on skilling and de-skilling of immigrant women; adult education and the construction of civil society, women, violence and learning, and feminism, nationalism and globalization. She is the editor of a book titled Women of A Non-State Nation: The Kurds (2001, Mazda Publishers) and the co-editor of a book called Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (2001, University of Toronto Press). She was the editor of Convergence, the journal of the International Council of Adult Education. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on "honour killing" as well as on a SSHRC funded grant on "War, Diaspora, and Learning: Kurdish Women in Britain, Canada, and Sweden" Contact: smojab@oise.utoronto.ca |
