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Apologies for cross posting Liverpool University is organising a multi-disciplinary conference next year from 11th to 14th of September, 2005, entitled Complexity, Science and Society. This will include a dedicated Education strand, in addition to Archaeology, Arts, Built Environment, Bio-complexity, Computing, Development, Ecological Economics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Geography, Health, Health Care, Law, Linguistics, Management, Manufacturing, Multi-agent systems, Politics and International Affairs, Philosophy, Primary Care, Psychology, Social Theory, and Social Work strands. There are also going to be contributions from the visual and other arts. The conference offers a unique opportunity for people interested in Complexity Theory and Education to share perspectives with others interested in this area, and also to attend a range of sessions in different disciplinary areas. Further details can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/ccr/2005_conf/index.htm <http://www.liv.ac.uk/ccr/2005_conf/index.htm> . Please contact Tamsin Haggis at [log in to unmask] if you would like to discuss anything specifically related to the Education strand. The deadline for Education abstracts is 1st March, 2005. Best wishes Tamsin Tamsin Haggis Institute of Education University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA email: [log in to unmask] phone: 01786 467625 -----Original Message----- From: Improving Student Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barry Jackson Sent: 25 January 2005 17:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: alternative approaches to educational research? 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 -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind.