Hi colleagues, as part of the Routledge Focus on Education series, the University of Manchester/Manchester Metropolitan University are collaborating on the virtual conferences below. Both will result in Routledge 

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Teaching + Research is a conference and publication initiative involving Routledge, the University of Manchester/Manchester Metropolitan University. There are two virtual conferences coming up:

TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH: DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTS

Place: Virtual / University of Manchester
Dates: 02-04 December, 2020
Early Abstracts: 30 June 2020 

http://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/ 

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ONLINE EDUCATION: TEACHING IN A TIME OF CHANGE

Place: Virtual / University of Manchester
Dates: 21-23 April, 2021
Early Abstracts: 30 June 2020 

http://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/ 
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These are virtual conferences with a keynote presentation from Manchester. 

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TEACHING + RESEARCH – the initiative aimed at disseminating best practice research and teaching whether you are: 

- focused primarily on your teaching
- carrying out research independently of your teaching
- researching pedagogical methods in the classroom
- embedding your research in your teaching

DISCIPLINES:


There is particular interest in cross-disciplinary approaches and, more specifically still, the initiative will set up platforms for researchers and teachers whose work connects to issues of:

Sustainability | Resilience | Construction | Transport | Building
Architecture | Planning | Sustainability | Urban Design | Landscape | Housing
Public Health | Accessibility by Design | Design for Life | Healthy Cities


The broader themes of these conferences include:

Education | Teaching Practice | Theories of Learning | Educational Technologies | Pedagogy | Educational Psychology | Learning spaces


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PUBLISHERS: Routledge


FORMATS: Pre-recorded presentations, Zoom, written papers 


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CALL SUMMARY 1: TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH

The backdrop to the conference is the varied interpretations of teaching as it relates to research. Definitions of ‘academic research’ vary but often exclude analysis, experiment, knowledge transfer and critical debate stimulated in the classroom, studio or lab. However, this is challenged. Educationalists routinely define the classroom and laboratory and use it to monitor how space influences learning. In architecture, landscape and urban design, however, the idea of a ‘design studio’ as a vehicle for research in and of itself is gaining traction. In construction and engineering schools the notion of problem based curricula is common place, with student initiatives such as the ‘Solar Decathlon’ turning learning into experiment by default.

Programs of sociology and human geography routinely collect data on communities and neighbourhood initiatives as part of classroom exercises. Public health educators engage in critiques of urban infrastructure in developing arguments around issues like the healthy city. The growing number of urban economics professors worldwide, debate and explore the finance of housing, real estate and city infrastructures, forging new theories of city finance in the process. Teachers of art and social history reconsider and critique the cultural and social movements of cities in the very act of explaining them. 

This conference seeks to engage education professionals in debate and best practice sharing with educators in the art, design and social science disciplines. 

Submit and abstract: http://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/ 

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CALL SUMMARY 2 – ONLINE EDUCATION

Recent events have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, teachers and students adapted to new pedagogical tools. Some educational establishments survived, others thrived, while some struggled and have already gone ‘out of business’. For some disciplines, the transition was seamless. Other disciplines writhed at having to forego the peer-to-peer learning environment of the classroom or the dynamic interaction of the design studio. 

Despite the ‘shock of the new’ all this represented, the debates around the virtual classroom, the online studio, the remote seminar, and distance education more generally, were far from new. Universities like Purdue in the US and the Open University in the UK had been operating this way for years. Experiments into how to teach design online had been happening for decades across the world, the evolution of remote educational interfaces had been evolving non-stop since the 1980s.

This conference brings together education professionals and theorists with teachers and researchers from other disciplines. It asks, what is the “new present” for education and how do we learn from each other’s expertise and recent experiences.

Submit and abstract: http://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/ 

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Organisers: Routledge, Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University), AMPS, PARADE, UCL Press.






  

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