December 2011 English Teaching
English Teaching: practice and critique, Volume 11, Number 1
(May 2012):
Focus: Research methodologies as framing the study of
English/literacy teaching and learning
Abstracts should be sent to the editors before December 1,
2011 and full articles by March 1, 2012 at the very latest to ensure an
effective review process.
March 2012: 1-4 Mar
ESREA Life History and Biography Conference Expanding connections:
Learning, the body and the environment; Perspectives from life history and
auto/biographical narrative research
Venue: University of Southern Denmark, Institute of
Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions
Conference URL: http://www.esrea.org/conferences_and_seminars?l=en
Organisers: European Society for Research on the
Education of Adults Address: Marianne Horsdal, University of Southern
Denmark URL: http://www.esrea.org/?l=en Enquiries: horsdal@ifpr.sdu.dk
Notes: ESREA will be offering 3 bursaries (300 Euro
each) for doctoral students. All abstracts for paper or other suggested
presentations must be submitted by Monday 7th November2011; Final versions of
papers (no more than 5000 words including references) must be submitted by
Monday 6th February 2012
Themes: Adult learning; Embodied learning
April 2012: 2-4 Apr
Discourse-Power-Resistance 12 Conference
Venue: Plymouth College of Art, Tavistock Place,
Plymouth PL4 8AT
Conference URL: http://www.dprconference.com/home;
Organisers: Jerome Satterthwaite; Enquiries: enquiries@dprconference.com
Notes: Further details of speakers, abstract and events
will be added to website in the near future
Themes: Social sciences, arts, humanities, education and the
creative arts are under attack; Poetics: Practice as Learning, Learning in
Practice; Research, learning, teaching: impact; Sustainable impact
April 2012: 24-25 Apr
Discourses of Inclusion in Neo-Liberal Higher Education Venue: Milton
Keynes
Organisers: Centre for Inclusion and Curriculum, Open
University Address: Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7
6AA URL: http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/wideningparticipation/
Themes: Widening Participation and Access, Lifelong Learning, Equity, Equality and Diversity
SCUTREA CONFERENCE 2012 (Leicester,
3rd – 5th July 2012)
Call for Papers: Theme: Adult Education and Well-Being
It’s usually assumed that learning throughout adult
life is ‘good for you’. Whether undertaken in leisure time for intellectual
stimulus or for social reasons, or within or beyond a job for skills
acquisition and career development, the learner is clear that there will be
personal benefits. But what is the evidence for all of this? Much work has been
undertaken in recent years on the theme of ‘well-being’. But how is that
research to be critiqued? How is well-being to be measured? How does well-being
relate to ‘happiness’, to ‘personal’ or ‘spiritual’ development, or to ‘social
capital’? To what extent is ‘well-being’ to do with the cultivation of an
‘inner life’, with a sense of social well-being, or with the fact of gaining
confidence and skills to get a (better) job? What happens to patterns of
learning when communities decline and decay? How is learning part of
re-generation? How are all of these addressed at a time when distance and
on-line learning is on the increase? What other concepts come into play? What
understandings of ‘self’ are at work? Can on-line learning facilitate personal
and social development as much as face-to-face study? How, if at all, are
aspects of personal development assessed in adult education today? In an age of
attention to skills and competencies, to what extent do professional studies
programmes attend to personal development issues? What has the requirement for
formal academic validation of programmes across professions affected the
personal developmental aspects of learning? How do recent economic and
political factors and decisions impinge upon all these areas?
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