(Festival of Para-Academia)

Research Library at Seventh Gallery, 213-215 Church St, Richmond. Collection curated by Seventh’s community, and featuring paintings by Sol Fernandez, 2024. Photograph by Teagan Ramsay.

To participate in FOPA you needn’t be a scholar. You simply need to be interested.

We have compiled a reading list that can offer a relatively comprehensive - though incomplete - starting point for relevant, engaging and provocative literature.

These texts are singular and compelling. We hope you enjoy them.

1.

Illich, I (1970) Deschooling Society. London: Marion Boyers

2.

Freire, P (2017) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London: Penguin

3.

Bartlett, A.J. and Clemens, J. (eds.) (2017) What is Education?. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

4.

Derrida, J. (2002) Without Alibi. Edited and translated by P. Kamuf. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

5.

Wardrop, A. and Withers, D-M. (eds.) (2014) The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting. Bristol: HammerOn Press.

6.

Plato, 1961. Plato, 2000. The Trial and Death of Socrates. 3rd ed. Translated by G. M. A. Grube, revised by J. M. Cooper. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.