Sometimes it seems like half my life was spent learning something new. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve thought about how to learn, and I’m going to distill part of the process down for you. These methods are primarily about intellectual matters: mastering a subject, but are easily adapted to practical and creative skills. […]
education
Cell phone bans in K-12 institutions were a hot topic this back-to-school season. All 50...
A dispute over the marking of a student's work at one London university illuminates a much bigger problem, writes Mathilda Mallinson
"Australian National University's recent announcement to slash three full time positions at the Australian Dictionary of Biography and “disestablish” the Australian National Dictionary ... represent cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale.'
Stella Maris seeks apology and damages after drawn-out ordeal which saw her dismissed then reinstated over all-student email on Palestine
Exclusive: UCU staff say they have been victims of "bullying and intimidation" by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous...
Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them:
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.
Protesters accuse university colleges of being "complicit in Israeli genocide" due to their investments in arms companies
Lucy Honan examines the politics of neurodiversity and argues that we need to fight the pressures capitalism places on people, not just look for individualised solutions
The post Capitalism and the politics of neurodiversity first appeared on Solidarity Online.