The exchange below took place on social media on 15th March and surfaced partly on BlueSky. The tone is a mixture of serious and less serious (myself mostly) a common feature…
Keith Flett
Reading Stuart Hall (Marxism Today, October 1988) who asks ‘are we thinking
Michael Rosen
A Q I ask myself everyday. I mentioned to my students how stimulus-response is an inadequate way of talking about reading-reflection-understanding-interpretation, and how we need a dynamic ‘biofeedback’ model of reading with a reflective mind, not passively receiving stimuli
Keith Flett
I can see that the dialectical synthesis here would be a Juke Box Jury style hit or a miss verdict on a text
Even the educator is educated. Biofeedback loops, the person affecting others is themselves affected. On and on and on.
Keith Flett
Hence while E P Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class is a book which does it what it says on the cover (provides a history) it is actually a sort of manual of activism for the 1960s New Left..
Michael Rosen
I remember that moment well: History Workshop conferences, wonderful mini-thesis booklets from the seconded trade union students at Ruskin, history from below as a dynamic process of history in the present, informing the present.
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