An introduction to the Social Science Centre, Lincoln (27.09.2012) The Collection, Lincoln (UK).

1. 2012 Public Lecture
The Future of Radical Education
Prof Michael Fielding

3. A practice that aspires to illuminate our
present circumstances and the conditions
of their historical emergence, to
facilitate the flourishing of possibilities
for people to imagine and govern their
own collective futures, and to better the
chances that these will be humane.

4. What is the
Social Science Centre?

5. An independent educational
co-operative that works to
produce critical knowledge in
order to improve the quality of our
collective social life.

6. The Centre is run as a not-for-
profit co-operative. This means
that we strive to organise it on
the basis of democratic, non-
hierachical, consensus-oriented
principles, with all members –
student-scholars and teacher-
scholars alike – having equal
involvement in how the Centre
operates.

7. Members of the SSC - Scholars -
work across the fields of
Sociology, Politics, Philosophy,
Economics, History, Journalism
and Visual Arts to pose critical
questions about the world,
understand complex social
problems and act on situations
on everyday life.

10. A core principle of the Centre is
that teacher-scholars and
student-scholars have much to
learn from each other.

13. The co-operative principles on
which the management of the
Centre is based extend to the
ways in which courses are taught
and research is conducted.

15. The SSC is entirely self-funded.
The Centre accepts monies, and
other forms of ‘payment in kind’,
from donors who share our
ethics and values. Members will
donate their time and expertise
freely and will not receive any
payment.

16. Student-scholars will not earn a
university degree through their
studies, but will produce a peer-
reviewed portfolio of work and
receive a certificate in higher
education, along with a written
transcript detailing their
academic, intellectual, and
where relevant their social and
political accomplishments

20. 2012 Public Lecture
The Future of Radical
Education
Prof Michael Fielding