Archive for January, 2009
Discourse, Power, Resistance Conference on Power and the Academy – 6 – 8 April 2009
Discourse, Power, Resistance Conference on Power and the Academy
6 – 8 April 2009
Geoffrey Manton Conference Centre
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
This conference takes place in a climate of convulsive change. The new political administration in the USA is getting under way, with millions hoping for the first time in decades that world politics will really change. At [...]
Employer Engagement and Employability after the Crash: Opportunities and challenges for social science learning, teaching and employment – 20 Jan 2009
This day event is co-organised by C-SAP and the Researching Students Study Group of the British Sociological Association, with the Student Experience Network of the Society for Research into Higher Education.
Confirmed speakers:
Patrick Ainley, University of Greenwich ‘Fick Higher Education, Employability after the credit crunch’
Matt Badcock, Birmingham City University, ‘Sociology and the public(s): Using [...]
C-SAP Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Group: ‘Politics, Democracy and Practice’ – 20 Jan 2009
C-SAP Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Group: ‘Politics, Democracy and Practice’
Venue: Coventry University
Date: 20th February 2009, 10:00 – 4:30
The programme for the day will include a range of key note speakers and workshops on themes and issues relevant to our aims and objectives.
This will include material such as:
The Moment of Critical Pedagogy – Why [...]
Student Experience Network Related Events – 23 Jan 2009
Education and Changing Cultures of Competitiveness
January 23rd 2009
Graduate School of Education
University of Bristol
This seminar explores the role and impact of strategies of competitiveness in education at institutional, national, regional scales. While it is discursively mobilised and materialised through institutional and sectoral restructuring and ‘lifelong learning’ (Robertson 2005) to enhance competitiveness (Slaughter & Rhoades 2004; Marginson [...]
Student Experience Network Related Events – 15-16 Jan 2009
HEA Subject Centre for Sociology Anthropology and Politics
The Virtual University?: Social Science Critiques of Learning and Teaching in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Organised by:C-SAP
Venue: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel, London
Date of event: 15 to 16 January 2009
Email: enquiries@c-sap.bham.ac.uk
Web link: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/conference_jan_09/
Event Description
In recent years there have been dramatic changes in the nature and possibilities of and for [...]
Teacher Education Research Network (TERN)
The Teacher Education Research Network (TERN) is a year-long project funded by the ESRC. TERN aims to establish a regional network for research capacity-building in the North West of England. The main aims of the project are to pilot a strong and sustainable model for research capacity-building in teacher education across a collaborative network of [...]