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SCEPTrE's work on the idea of lifewide education is summarised in this book published by AuthorHouse.
Enabling a More Complete Education
Encouraging, Recognising and Valuing Lifewide Learning in Higher Education
April 13 and 14th 2010, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England
Conference Artist Patrick Sanders shares his interpretations
PODCASTS
INVITED SPEAKERS
Tuesday April 13
11-45-12.40 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block
Life-Wide Education: a new and transformative concept for higher education?
Professor Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London
16.40-17.40 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block
Life-wide Learning; ‘What matters to me as a teacher?’
Professor John Cowan, Heriot-Watt University
16.40-17.40 Learning in a Complex World: creating meaning through narrative and the role of
technology in augmenting human sense-making
Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd
Wednesday April 14th
11.35-12.30 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block
The Balance between Communities and Personal Agency: Transferring and
integrating knowledge and know-how between different communities and contexts
Professor Michael Eraut University of Sussex
14.15-15.10 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block
How can technology help us realize the learning potential of a life-wide curriculum?
Towards a curriculum for resilience
Dr Richard Hall, De Montfort University and NTF
14.15 -15.10 Room A Lecture Theatre Block
Beyond the Curriculum:opportunities to enhance employability and future life choices
Tom Norton, Director, Internal Policy Development, 1994 Group
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Tuesday April 13th
13.45-14.55 Institutional Leaders– Opportunities and challenges of valuing and recognizing informal learning.
15.00-16.00 Students’ Voices– Valuing and recognising our life-wide learning.
Wednesday April 14th
09.00-09.55 Award Leaders – What have we learnt about assuring the quality and standards of our extra- and co-curricular awards?
10.00-10.55 Employer Perspectives - Are these forms of learning valuable to employers?
13.15-14.10 PDP-e-portfolio practitioners- Making informal learning explicit: the challenge of integrating PDP, technology and HEAR
Parallel Session
11.35-12.30 Leeds for Life: embedding the value of co-curricular experience David Gardner and Caroline Letherland University of Leeds
11.35-12.30 Warwick Advantage Award – recognition for extra curricular involvement
16.40-17.40 University of Surrey Award pilot Programme – recognising students’ extracurricular experiences and employer engagement
POSTER GALLERY
Posters of institutional co-curricular and extra-curricular awards will be animated through a 2 minute pitch
University of Central Lancashire
Liverpool John Moores University
University of London, Goldsmiths
University of the West of England
Artist in Residence Patrick Saunders
Artist in Residence GSA Dancers
This was the first national conference to bring together educational practitioners, institutional leaders, students, employer representatives and interested agencies and networks to share their perspectives and practices and consider the opportunities and challenges afforded by co-curricular and extra-curricular award schemes.
Goals
- To promote discussion about the value, opportunities and challenges afforded by the concepts of life-wide learning and life-wide education and the recognition and award schemes that have been developed to draw benefit from these forms of learning.
- To facilitate networking by bring people together who are involved in promoting and facilitating students’ learning and development through co- and extra-curricular experiences and or who organise award schemes that recognise and value such learning
- To encourage the sharing of experiences and practices so that we all might be better informed develop knowledge about these schemes through their documentation.
- To develop a better understanding of the ways in which co-curricular and extra-curricular awards are encouraging, recognising and valuing students' lifewide learning and achievements
Recent surveys have shown that at least fifty universities in the UK are now offering award schemes that promote and value learning gained beyond the academic curriculum.
Following the untimely death of Professor Michael Pittilo, Vice Chancellor of The Robert Gordon University,
who was to have contributed to the conference, we are dedicating the conference to his memory.
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