Dear Colleagues,
From UCL's Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT)
INVITATION - DEBATES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SEMINAR SERIES
Title: Advancing Learning and Teaching in Global Research-intensive
Universities
Abstract: Debates in HE are often driven by factors which are outside
the control of the individuals affected by them. The recent focus on
the development of learning and teaching in research-intensive
universities is an example of an issue which has given rise to much
discussion. This seminar will focus on the contested place of
learning and teaching in the life of academic staff, drawing on
research into their experience of early career initial teacher
education courses. The data was gathered at research-intensive
universities in Sweden and England and similarities and differences
between approaches to initial courses will be analysed and debated.
Bourdieu's field theory will inform and enrich our evaluation of the
symbolic capital enjoyed by the diverse fields of the academy. We
will attempt to unravel a few strands in the complex web of
influences which shape academic life and consider why, in the words
of one young lecturer, where teaching is concerned, sometimes 'the
culture drags you down'.
Speaker: Rosalind Duhs, CALT, UCL
Date: Wednesday 25th March 2009
Time: 3.30-5.00pm
Venue: Taviton 433 (Can be found in the SSEES Building on Taviton Street)
Map: <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cishe/Taviton.png>
We are pleased to invite you to our next "Debates in Higher
Education" and hope that you will be able to join us for this event.
To book a place, please contact Peter Phillips by e-mail:
[log in to unmask] or if you have any queries telephone 020 7679
1792.
Thanks
Peter
Peter Phillips
UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
020 7679 (4) 1792
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