Colleagues,
I apologise for cross-posting this to several lists...
We are planning a conference in December 2005, to explore alternative
approaches to educational research. What we mean by 'alternative' is
still rather unclear. Our starting point is a feeling that there is a
bigger variety of practices being used by researchers and practitioners
to understand learning and teaching than is apparent in the literature,
and that some of these approaches could be very valuable if they were
more widely known. We would like to explore this with your help, and we
believe that the outcome could be an enriched understanding of
alternative ways in which research into learning and teaching may be
usefully approached.
The conference will include keynotes to provide synoptic views of, and
to challenge, current assumptions. We would also like to provide
opportunities to present and discuss a wide range of ideas about, or
approaches to, research and evaluation. So we need to find people with
interesting ideas or approaches who could present and discuss their
approach to research. And this is where you come in...
If you have an approach to research and evaluation which you think is
not as well known as it might be, or if you think that there are
research methodologies within your own discipline which could be
effectively applied to leaning and teaching, or if there are approaches
you have read about that have interested you, we would like to hear from
you. We will then compile a collection of responses from which we will
invite a number of people to contribute a short paper. The contributors
would be invited to present their paper and lead a discussion of it.
If you're interested, please respond by email to me:
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , with a sentence or
two about what you would propose to present.
It's possible our assumptions are wrong, and that there are only a
limited ways of researching and evaluating learning and teaching. If
nobody responds then we'll know this plan is dead in the water, and you
won't hear any more about it.
Promise.
Barry
Professor Barry Jackson
Pro Vice Chancellor and
Director of Learning Development
Middlesex University
North London Business Park
Oakleigh Road South
London N11 1QS
tel: 020 8411 5018
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