Seminar 2: From Theory Into Practice
7 January 2010, by Richard
This is a revised programme for the second seminar – start/finish times and location remain unchanged
The second seminar in the series will be held on March 11th, 2010, at the University of Exeter Graduate School of Education, St Luke’s Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU
This second event in the series will work with significant themes discussed in seminar 1, exploring how these play out in practice through an overview of the field of educational futures and through a set of distinctive examples. It offers opportunities for mapping out motivations, assumptions and theoretical positions inherent in a sample of educational futures work, and for considering how the field of futures orientated education might develop both theory and practice. We hope to begin to develop the basis of a manifesto, through critical engagement with:
- Overview of current futures-oriented research in education
- Where this work has come from, and the institutional and cultural contexts and values frames through which such work is being developed
- Models of the future inherent in such work
In this way we intend therefore to expose the assumptions, the values, the economics, resources and gaps in research in educational futures in order to develop strategies for “getting better at futures thinking in education”.
To register for this seminar please contact Barbara Ashcroft. The programme for the day is below:
| 09.00 | Arrival and coffee |
| 09.15 | Welcome Anna Craft, Exeter University |
| 09.25 | Government and commercial interface Alister Wilson, Waverley |
| 10.15 | Disruptive and unsettling? Simon Mauger, NIACE |
| 10.30 | Learner Futures – examples of school-based projects Anna Craft, Kerry Chappell, Cathie Holden Exeter University |
| 11.10 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | Being Human: The future of learning in a world suffused with technology Yvonne Rogers, Open University; Tom Rodden, Nottingham University |
| 12.15 | Education policy futures: informing the DCSF Harnessing Technology strategy Mike Sharples, Nottingham University |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 | Deconstructing futures – developing new approaches Group process hosted by Carey Jewitt, Institute of Education |
| 14.45 | Drafting a manifesto for futures thinking in education Group work led by Keri Facer, MMU |
| 15.45 | Close |
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