Dear colleagues
C-SAP, the Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology & Politics (whose
remit includes Cultural Studies), is pleased to announce it's second
Annual conference:
DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3-4th April 2003
Venue TBC
Higher education in the UK, as elsewhere in Europe, is undergoing rapid
change. These changes derive from multiple sources – students’ diverse
backgrounds and aspirations, expectations of staff, institutional
reorganisation, government and funding councils’ policies, and
international agreements.
How do staff and students deal with these multiple changes?
How are they percolating through to the classroom?
What are their cumulative effects on learning and teaching?
C-SAP sees itself as a ‘change agent’ - supporting staff and students to
grasp the complexity of current changes and working out how to respond.
C-SAP-funded projects are our prime method for achieving staff and
student-inspired change ‘from below’.
The conference will address the above issues and showcase C-SAP
projects. Sessions will combine keynote speakers, volunteered papers,
and project presentations. Sample sessions are:
Negotiating multiple pressures for change – reflecting on the purpose of
HE and disciplinary aspirations for learning and teaching
Research-led projects in learning and teaching – a critical look at SOLT
(Scholarship of learning and teaching)
Institutional change – multiple impacts of audit, managerialism and
financial crises on learning and teaching
Using the internet for producing and sharing knowledge - implications of
new international markets in higher education
Role of LTSN – C-SAP as an agent of change?
Offers of papers or sessions (one side of A4) and requests for booking
information should be sent by 29 November 2002 to Sue Wright, Director
of C-SAP, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT.
C-SAP is the Centre for Learning and Teaching – Sociology, Anthropology
and Politics,
part of the funding council supported Learning and Teaching Support
Network.
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