Poor People’s Movements

The Co-Operative University: Labour, Property and Pedagogy

Author(s): Joss Winn

 


I begin this article by discussing the recent work of academics and activists to identify the advantages and issues relating to co-operative forms of higher education, and then focus on the ‘worker co-operative’ organisational form and its applicability and suitability to the governance of and practices within higher educational institutions. Finally, I align the values and principles of worker co-ops with the critical pedagogic framework of ‘Student as Producer’. Throughout I employ the work of Karl Marx to theorise the role of labour and property in a ‘co-operative university’, drawing particularly on later Marxist writers who argue that Marx’s labour theory of value should be understood as a critique of labour under capitalism.

 

Ovaj članak započinjem raspravom o nedavnom radu akademika i aktivista na identifikovanju prednosti i pitanja u vezi sa zadružnim oblicima visokog obrazovanja, a zatim se fokusiram na organizacionu formu 'zadruge radnika' i njenu primenljivost i prikladnost za upravljanje i prakse u okviru visokoškolskih ustanova. Na kraju, usklađujem vrednosti i principe radničkih zadruga sa kritičkim pedagoškim okvirom „Učenik kao producent“. Tokom čitavog svog rada koristio sam rad Karla Marksa za teoretizaciju uloge rada i imovine na „zadružnom univerzitetu“, oslanjajući se naročito na kasnije marksističke pisce koji tvrde da Marksovu radnu teoriju vrednosti treba više shvatiti kao kritiku rada u vreme kapitalizma.

 

Key words: author/Joss Winn, personalities/ Marx, worker cooperative, university, labor, property, pedagogy, education, governance, production, student, marxism, capitalism

 

Ključne reči:: Autori / Joss Wimm, Ličnosti / Marx, zadruge / radničke zadruge, univerzitet, rad, svojina, pedagogija, obrazovanje, upravljanje, proizvodnja, učenik (student), marksizam, kapitalizam

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