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This Learning Life 2 is for everyone who wishes education to provide all young people with a more powerful preparation for life in the 21st century.
It follows on from the very successful ‘This Learning Life’ conference hosted in April 2006 by the Graduate School of Education and the Institute for Advance Study (IAS).
The presumption is that current 'schooling' often develops a rather arcane and anachronistic set of learning skills and attitudes; and if education is in part a preparation for lifelong learning, richer models of learning might prove fruitful.
This conference intends to explore the details of real-life learning in a diverse range of situations and professions (for example music, dancing, sport, cooking, theatre); to discuss ways to theorise this learning; and to investigate how such insights could contribute to the development of models and practices in formal education that prepared students more effectively for learning in the real world.
The Second International Conference on Education for Real-Life Learning
19-21 June 2008, University of Bristol (UK)
The programme includes:
- invited keynotes
- invited learning conversations with a singer-songwriter, a horse-riding instructor, a chef, a financial guru and a scientist
- Kokopelli playback theatre & Bubblz the Learning Clown
- submitted presentations, symposia and posters on a wide range of related themes
- plenty of discussion.
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