The Verbatim Formula: caring for care leavers in the neoliberal university. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Inchley, Maggie; Dar, Sadhvi; Pujara, Susmita; Baker, Sylvan
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 24:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 413
• Page End: 419
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: University -- verbatim performance -- appreciative inquiry -- participatory -- care-experienced; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2019.1604128
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: British universities have historically excluded sections of society from entering and from participating in decision-making. The neoliberal university has entrenched these inequalities in insidious ways that are resistant to change. By drawing on critical feminisms, we delineate a politics of careful solidarity that can mitigate the erasure of marginalised young people in university governance structures. We outline a participatory methodology that uses arts-based evaluation to provide channels for democratic discussion and listening. Our methodology centres the voices of young people with an experience of the care system – a cohort who are heavily excluded, and whose knowledge is stigmatised.