Andrew Dewdney and Claire Grey reflect on the work of the Cockpit Department of Cultural Studies, and its continuing relevance today.
Category Archives: Creativity
Art and youth work in post-war Britain: ‘Journey into a Fog’
A forgotten best-seller of the mid-1950s sheds light on youth culture and the potential of creative youth work. Continue reading
Photography, class and creative labour: ‘Tish’ (2023)
A moving new documentary about the late British photographer Tish Murtha raises important questions about class, creativity and politics.
Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Media Education Approach
What are the implications of artificial intelligence for media educators, and for the media themselves?
Corporate capture: the dismantling of London’s youth arts
Raymond Williams on Culture and Education 2: The Long Revolution
Revisiting three key texts from sixty years ago: what do they have to say to us today?
Learning jazz – an amateur view
Some personal reflections on informal learning and everyday creativity, based on my own experience of learning jazz
The challenge of youth media
How can youth media production promote civic and political understanding and activism? A review and an interview with Steve Goodman.
Who are the young creatives?
Why is it still so difficult for disadvantaged young people to gain access to employment in the media industries? And what – if anything – can media educators do about this situation?
Cultural capital: arts policy and education
What went wrong with New Labour’s cultural policy? Robert Hewison’s book ‘Cultural Capital’ – reviewed here – provides some of the answers.
