From 19 June 2008 till 21 June 2008 Location: Bristol, UK The Second Bristol International Conference on Education for Real-Life Learning
DATE: 19-21 June 2008 LOCATION: University of Bristol, United Kingdom
'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.
In the first This Learning Life (TLL) conference in 2006, we heard from top
scientists, sportspeople and politicians, as well as academics Shirley
Brice Heath (Stanford) and David Perkins (Harvard). In TLL 2, we will have
Professors John Bransford (Washington) and Barbara Rogoff (U California,
tbc), as well as people like a celebrity chef, an international
horse-riding instructor, a media scientist, a young musician, a top
business executive - and a clown. All will be asking: what can we learn
from people's learning lives; and how can we use this knowledge to make
schools and colleges more powerful preparations for a learning life?
There will be presentations, demonstrations, conversations, workshops,
submitted papers - and plenty of discussion.
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