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Rebecca Goodbourn

Learning to Learn: the voice of the learner

Event Details

Time: December 10, 2009 all day
Location: Newcastle
Event Type: conference
Organized By: Rebecca Goodbourn
Latest Activity: Sep 30

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Event Description

This conference will examine the issues for learning and teaching in FE with reference to current policy issues affecting the sector. Questions the event will examine include:
- How can putting the learner at the heart of the learning process create lifelong learners?
- How can the FE sector most effectively build and implement strategies focused explicitly on teaching and learning?
- What good practice in this area already exists in FE, and how can it be built on?
- What are the barriers to learning to learn approaches in the FE Sector and how can they be overcome?
- Is the sector ready to manage the impact of current policy developments?

Keynote presentations will be made by

- Professor Kathryn Ecclestone, Professor in Education, Oxford Brookes University

- Theresa Thornton, Northumberland College, Learning to Learn in FE project college

- Mark Young, Lewisham College, Learning to Learn in FE project college

- Dorothy Smith, Interim Regional Director, LSC North East

- Dr Kate Wall, University of Newcastle and lead researcher of the Campaign's Learning to Learn in FE project

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