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The Early Memoirs of Howard Simpson
No full textThe Early Memoirs of Howard Simpson, life in early twentieth century Texas and New Mexico. An account of his childhood and family’s beginnings in West Texas and their journey into western New Mexico and Arizona during the pre-depression era
Education, Social Haunting, and Deindustrialisation:Attuning to Ghosts in the Hidden Curriculum
No full textThis chapter draws on ethnographic research carried out at ‘Lillydown Primary’, a state school for 3–11-year-olds in a former mining community in the north of England. It explores how historical relations and performances, reflective of Lillydown’s industrial past, continue to haunt processes and experiences of the hidden curriculum, even though Britain’s coal industry is long gone. Complicating Avery Gordon’s notion of ‘haunting’ and drawing on neo-Marxist analysis of education, this chapter presents a complex picture of the enactment and reproductive effects of the hidden curriculum. It highlights how ghosts work to open up spaces for transformation. The chapter illustrates how the hidden curriculum is enacted through more traditional performances of authority and working-class codes, rather than conditions and relations of control. Whilst ghostly matters of Lillydown’s industrial past encouragingly shape areas of schooling, at times they play a role in reproducing classed divisions and relations. By arguing for a conscious reckoning with the fullness of ghosts, this chapter suggests it is possible, at least in some circumstances, to challenge and refashion processes and experiences of the hidden curriculum in ways that recognise the richness and heritage of working-class culture, as well as the pain and loss
‘[O]ur precious art’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Gift Economy
No full textThis chapter offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf by exploring their exchanges through the concept of gift-giving. Drawing on the work of their contemporary, Marcel Mauss, Simpson argues that the gift is fundamentally ambivalent: it is both generous and selfish, and it creates a personal bond but at the same time offers a challenge, demanding response and reciprocation. Acts of gifting and generosity – including praise, letters, conversation and, as Simpson argues, Mansfield’s idea for a story that later became Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens’ – illuminate the power dynamic that existed between them, which constantly shifted from affinity to rivalry and envy.</p
Author Dorothy Simpson Beimer at Valmora
No full textAuthor Dorothy Simpson Beimer standing outdoors at Valmora
Conclusion:The Ghost of Coal
No full textThis chapter highlights some of the key lessons to be learned from the book. It focuses not only on the conceptual and theoretical contribution made by each chapter but raises questions about how the legacy of coal is played out in the classroom, and at the institutional and systemic level. We draw on the notion of social haunting raised in the book’s introduction and developed in Kat Simpson’s chapter. Social haunting offers a powerful lens through which to understand the particular nature of Britain’s coalfield communities, not only in terms of reckoning with the pain and suffering which remains to haunt such locales, but also by recognising the solidarity, camaraderie, and the industrial humour and culture of the past that continues to be ghosted into the present. The chapter finishes by reimagining the nature of education and work in Britain’s former coalfields. It sets out a number of ideas and strategies which may begin to develop an agenda to (re)engage young people with learning across a range of settings. Such an agenda would, however, need to be part of a broader programme of social and economic reform going beyond previous attempts to ‘regenerate’ the former coalfields
Introduction:Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities
No full textThe introduction locates the origins of the book in the editors’ personal histories, growing up in former coalfield communities, the social and cultural changes they have witnessed, and some of the conundrums now facing such locales—especially in relation to education and work. It provides an intellectual framework for the text; it discusses the perspectives which underpin the book and the interdisciplinary approach employed. This provides a range of insights and understandings, particularly in terms of the relationship between the current ‘condition’ of the former coalfields and their industrial past—which continues to be ‘haunted’ by a social, political and cultural matrix which has always been both enabling and constraining for those living and working in former coalfield communities. It positions the book in the literature—both in terms of coalmining communities and on the relationship between education and social class. The chapter finishes with an overview of the contents of the book. It highlights the arguments made, particularly in relation to the nature and purpose of education in the former coalfields, especially in relation to social class but also in terms of gender and other forms of ‘difference’
Harriette Simpson Arnow, 1908-1986
No full textA documentary film on southern Appalachian author Harriette Simpson Arnow. Directed by Herb E. Smith for Appalshop Productions in 1987
Carl H. Gellenthien, M.D. and Author Dorothy Simpson Beimer
No full textDr. Gellenthien and author Dorothy Simpson Beimer in the library at Valmora in November, 1984
Carl H. Gellenthien, M.D. and Author Dorothy Simpson Beimer
No full textDr. Gellenthien and author Dorothy Simpson Beimer in the library at Valmora in November, 1984
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