Conference Announcement
NEW MILLENNIUM, NEW CAPABILITY
31st March 2000, University of Aston
Delegate price Ł12
Our apologies if you receive this notice more than once
Higher Education for Capability would like to invite colleagues with an
interest in pushing forward the limits of the learning and teaching debate
to this conference. The purpose of the day is to bring together people
interested in developing the capability model, in exploring the new agenda
for higher education and in considering how capability can contribute to
that agenda. The capability model has enormous potential to drive change. It
has helped us reconceptualise the teaching and learning process and our
targets now are to extend it from the practice of skills to the development
of higher order abilities and from the individual to the community.
About the day
The conference starts at 10.00 with coffee and registration and is scheduled
to end at 16.00.
Three keynote sessions in the morning explore the implications of the
environment in which we work. They cover the changing policy environment
(Professor Ron Barnett), the concept of personal capability for academic
staff (Professor Sally Brown if the ILT) and student responsibility (Paul
Ashwin). Each session will feature the presentation a discussant and a
plenary discussion.
The afternoon is based on seminars. Topics include the Śnewą skills of
creativity and entrepreneurship, the Śnewą targets of lifelong learning in
the university curriculum (moving beyond empty rhetoric) and community
capability and core questions and concepts for capability, such as Śwhat is
learning?ą and the nature of wisdom.
The day offers a genuine professional dialogue and the opportunity to work
through and with Higher Education for Capability to shape the next stage in
the development of higher education. The conference is for those who want to
influence events rather than just respond to initiatives and imposed policy.
It will be of particular interest to those who wish to wish to be part of a
network and Śthink tanką that develops and reviews innovation and who wish
to be associated with leading educational thinking.
And the cost?
We have kept costs to a minimum in order to encourage participation. The
cost of Ł12 is a contribution to the costs of the venue. If you have a view
on what higher education should be doing and you think that capability might
have a role to play in influencing change, then we would like you to attend.
Contact
For more information contact Liane Pearce, HEC Administrator at
Middlesex University
Trent Park
London N14 4YZ
Phone/fax 020 8362 6914
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