Welcome to KPP

Knowledge, power and politics rest at the heart of education. Recognising that education takes a wide variety of forms and is subject to different, often competing agendas across the globe, our research cluster based in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge explores fundamental questions relating to: the roles of education in societies; transnational debates about the nature of knowledge formation and its circulation; and the consequences for social justice.

About

Knowledge, Power and Politics (KPP) in education brings together a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers in the Faculty of Education, the University of Cambridge, and beyond. A centre of global excellence KPP’s main focus is to build research capacity and outputs through its activities, and to be recognised as a…Continue reading “About”

CIES 2018 – learning from Mexico City – post conference reflections

3 Apr 20185 Apr 2018

Susan L. Robertson With the CIES 2018 conference in Mexico City over, it is interesting to think about what the city itself is able to reveal about the conference theme…

How to be a blogger without having your own blog

2 Apr 20182 Apr 2018

By Mark Carrigan It’s a common assumption that ‘bloggers’ and ‘blogs’ are unavoidably intertwined. There’s a sense in which it’s true but it can also be slightly misleading. It’s possible…

#CIES2018: HE Regional integration in Latin American – new deepening North-South asymmetries?

29 Mar 20183 Apr 2018

by Susan L. Robertson Today is the last day of the CIES 2018 conference here in Mexico City, and it was an early and coolish start. 8.00 am, and 16…

#CIES2018 – Day 3: Remapping State/Education Relations

29 Mar 20183 Apr 2018

by Susan L. Robertson Wow! What a session! Scholars from the universities in the geographic north and south, Julia Erdelmann and Garrett Rubin and (CPGJ at Cambridge) and Ritesh Shah…

Blog

#CIES2018: “Welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West” – On education in the age of platform capitalism

27 Mar 201812 Apr 2018

By Julia Erdelmann Very early on the second full day of the CIES conference 2018, Susan L. Robertson (University of Cambridge), Janja Komljenovic (Lancaster University), and Eva Hartman (University of Cambridge)…

Blog

#CIES2018: ‘Beyond Education’ (or beyond modernity and capitalism)

26 Mar 201826 Mar 2018

By Susan L. Robertson I am sitting here in the first Presidential Panel address for the CIES 2018, given by the activist and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra,…

Blog

#CIES2018 in Mexico

26 Mar 20183 Apr 2018

By Susan L. Robertson The geo-graphic and historical importance of location for a conference theme can often stimulate, and thus create the occasion for, a more engaged set of conversations…

Events

CPGJ at #CIES2018

Members of our research cluster have organised a range of presentations, panels and workshops during the Comparative and International Education Society's 2018 Annual Conference. See here for the full programme.