Ragged University is built upon by drawing from a number of thinkers and models to develop an idea which all communities can take part in. Here are some articles exploring issues in education…

List of Articles:

• Action Science: Epistemology, Knowledge and It's Contested Communities
• Adult Access to Learning Opportunities: A Digest
• Adult Basic Education: A Digest
• Appeal: Help us Develop a Model for Co-operative Higher Education
• Bec Sanderson Leads Session On Picturing What Good Values Education
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Prejudicial and Biased Reasoning as Illogical and Irrational
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Behavioural Reactions to Dissonance and Confirmation Bias
• Binaries, Young Carers and The Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
• Bristol Free University by David Saunders
• Challenging Consumerism Through Education As Human Development
• Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem; A Ragged University Response
• Common Sense: A Theory of Inherent Knowledge
• Community Open Online Courses: Create Your Own MOOC
• Consuming Education; BERA Panel on Challenges, Threats & Opportunities across the Post-compulsory Sectors
• Conversation on Education: John Salway and Alex Dunedin
• Critical Apprenticeships: The Wrights and the Wrongs of Passage
• Curriculum and Technological Change: A Digest
• Digital Literacy Skills; Lifelong Learning by Anonymous
• Discrete Correspondences: Student Support Services On Zero Hours Contracts
• Do Open Educational Resources Increase Efficiency
• Educating For The Steady State Economy by Susan Brown
• Education and It’s Relationship With Change
• Education and the State: A Digest
• Education and Training the Workforce: A Digest
• Education As A Public Good: A Digest
• Education as Human Development
• Education Beyond School: A Digest
• Education in the Negative Sense
• Education Throughout Europe: A Cultural Context
• Education, Utopia, Necessity, and Existential Poverty
• Educational Theory and it's Relation to Practice: A Digest
• Educational Transition and Reform: A Digest
• Face Value: Six People Talk About Individuals Who Inspired Them To Learn
• Ghosted: Confessions of a Model Essay Writer by Tiny Splinter
• Great Educator: Andrew Bell 1753 to 1832
• Great Educator: Grant Wood; Revolt Against the City 1891 to 1942
• Great Educator: Thomas Guthrie and the Ragged Schools
• Helping With Mum: Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
• Higher Education Institutions and Personal Experience With Engagement
• How Can Education Help To Shape A Steady State Culture?: A Discussion Paper by Susan Brown
• Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out: Action Research in Context
• Inclusive Education and the Dialogue of Learning
• Informing Informal Education and Dancing Like Nobody Is Watching by Alex Dunedin
• Intercultural Education: A digest by Alex Dunedin
• Interview With An Educator: Colin Kirkwood
• Interview With An Educator: Colin MacLean
• Introducing the Free University Network by Joel Lazarus
• Invisible Colleges and Owning Our Common Intellectual Heritage
• Is Alternative Education The Route To Utopia? Alex Dunedin Responds to Hina Suleman’s Questions
• Is Education Becoming Infected With Money by Alex Dunedin
• John Morrison: Pop Up Lesson in Summerhall
• Journal: Finding a Way to Participate
• Knowledge, Opportunities and False Promises
• Learning How to Survive Outcomes and Measurements Culture
• Lifelong Learning that learns for Life! by John Salway
• Manchester Environmental Education Network
• Methodologies of Participation: Shared Anthropology, Corporate Parenting and Care Experience by John Morrison Part One
• Methodologies of Participation: Shared Anthropology, Corporate Parenting and Care Experience by John Morrison Part Two
• Metissage: A Conversation on Knowledge, Social Movements and Really Big Change
• National Government and Education in the European Context
• Notes Exploring The Theory of Autopedagogy; The Conception of Education in Relation to Human Rights
• Open Access to Research Publications: Accessing Research Online by Emily Nunn
• Perspective on Recurring Controversies In Education
• Podcast and Transcript: The Dark or Ethical Prince; There Is Always A Choice by Lynne Sedgmore
• Podcast: Drew Whitworth Introduces Session on Information Inequalities
• Podcast: Isak Stoddard Presents at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; ‘From Sweden With Care’
• Podcast: Joan Mowat Talks About Integrating Values in Education
• Podcast: John Morrisons Collider Lesson Plan; How Would You Build Guerilla Education ? Provocation
• Podcast: Keith Smyth talks about Digital Literacies
• Podcast: Participation, Motivation and Adult Learning by Dr Ellen Boeren
• Podcast: Professor Keith Smyth’s Inaugural Lecture; ‘It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it’
• Podcast: The Permanent Revolution of Education; A Journey to the Dark Side by Dave Hall
• Podcast: Tila Morris Talks About The Radical Road And Values
• Presentation on the Free Education Network for John Morrison
• Priorities in Post School Education: Who Benefits and who Pays?
• Ragged University As An Agnostic, Open, Space For Discussion
• Rhetorical Techne, Local Knowledge and Challenges
• Schooling and Society
• Shoestring Initiative: Ragged University – The Means to Organise Education Beyond Money
• Social Capital and Education: A Digest
• Social Justice Issues and the Valuation of People as Knowledgeable
• Sociological Barriers to Community Engagement with Higher Education Institutions
• Student as Consumer: A Sign of a Global Pathology of Consuming the World
• Studying the Press: Alex Dunedin Answers Questions and Analyses Article From Journalist Kashmira Gander
• Sustainability and Education by Bob Cranwell
• Sustainability in the Curriculum: University of Manchester
• The Common Instruments of Knowledge
• The Cooperative Development of Julian Edge: A Digest, Notes and Reflections by Alex Dunedin
• The Corporate Takeover of Education
• The Excluded Voices of FE Teachers and Communities: The Principal – Power and Politics in Further Education by Rob Peutrell
• The Free University of Nottingham: It Would Be F.U.N. by Mike Scott
• The Future of Education: My perspective as given to students
• The History of Adult Learning Project in Edinburgh: A Freirean Approach
• The Marketisation of Higher Education
• The Medium is the Means: The Industrial-Educational Complex
• The Multiple Functions of Education: A Digest
• The Peer Led Teaching of the Ragged Schools
• The Porous University Symposium: Inquiry as openness; Re-imagining the university, its commitments and responsibilities by Emanuele Bardone and Maarja Taaler
• The Porous University Symposium: The University Beyond Its Walls by Frank Rennie
• The Porous University Symposium: “Der Fachidiot”; The Paratechnic in the Monotechnic by Neil Mullholland
• The Porous University Symposium; What We Say and What We Do by Gina Wall
• The Porous University, Socialisation and Reflections
• The Porous University: Opening up the University; Being and becoming critically academically literate? by Gordon Asher
• The Principal; Power and Professionalism in FE: Measuring Up To The Mean – Beggars Belief
• The Right to Higher Education: A Context For Widening Participation; A Digest
• The Sociology of Education: A Durkheimian View
• The Struggles of Innovation by Hina Suleman
• The University As A Third Space? by Keith Smyth
• The Ways in Which We Do Things…
• Trade School: Offering Learning Through Barter by Colin Hynson
• Twas The Rant Before Christmas… What Makes The COOCs Initiative Succeed Where Others Fail
• Vivian Aristotle Smiles
• What is Informal Education ? Alex Dunedin Shares Ideas With Students at John Moores University
• Widening Participation: Power, Knowledge and Silence; A Digest
• Working Class Academics Conference: 14th – 15th July 2020
• Working Mens Clubs and Education: Into the 20th Century by Ruth Cherrington
• Working Men’s Clubs and Education by Dr Ruth Cherrington