Event overview
Hosted by the Centre for Identities and Social Justice
In the UK a ‘crisis’ has been manufactured around the so-called baby boomer generation. It has been claimed that this demographic (those born between 1946 and 1964) have benefitted from supportive public policies throughout their lives and are still continuing to access advantages but at some cost to younger generations.
For example, policies that offer protection against age discrimination coupled with the end of mandatory retirement have offered baby boomers the opportunity to extend their working lives. In choosing to remain in paid work when they could have retired, it has been claimed that older workers limit employment opportunities for younger people.
This presentation explores the perceptions and experiences of a group of older academics from the baby boomer generation who have stayed on in their posts and drawing on Nancy Fraser’s theorisation of distribution and recognition raises questions about issues of social justice and inclusion.
Bio:
Rosalyn George is a Professor (emeritus) of Education and Equality at Goldsmiths University of London UK. She has an abiding concern for issues of social justice, education and schooling and these concerns are reflected in her research, publications and teaching.
Her work has interrogated issues of ‘xeno racism’ in schools, ageism in academic contexts, education policy and routes into teaching,. Rosalyn has also published extensively around gender and education and particularly in relation to urban girls and informal school cultures including her books Girls in a Goldfish Bowl: Moral Regulation, Ritual and the Use of Power amongst Inner City Girls (2007) Sense Publishers and with Angela McRobbie and Carrie Paechter Pedagogical Responses to the Changing Position of Girls and Young Women (2016) Routledge
The zoom link will be sent nearer to the time of the event to registered attendees only.
Please note: This event will be recorded and accessible later via the CISJ website. We may also take photographs for social media publicity.
Dates & times
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5 May 2021 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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