Past event

Professional Practice in an Age of Extremism: implications for education and HE

27 Apr 2016

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.

Education and educators are increasingly identified as key players in policy initiatives that seek to address ‘extremism’ and ‘radicalisation’. New constructs of professional practice are promoted within these policy documents both in terms of education and higher education. This one day conference interrogates the litany of education and higher education policies that have emerged since 2011 and considers these in the light of debates around values, faith and constructs of professional identity.

09.30	Registration and Coffee
10.00	Values, character and how to live well together Rev’d Nigel Genders, Chief Education Officer, The Church of England
10.45	Discussant, group debate Professor Trevor Cooling, Director of NICER
11.45	Islam in higher education: exploring a politicised field Professor Alison Scott Baumann, Professor of Society and Belief, Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS
12.30	Discussant, group debate Omar Khan, Director of the Runnymede Trust
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Liquid Professionalism in an Age of Extremism Hazel Bryan, Professor of Education, University of Gloucestershire and Dr Lynn Revell, Reader in Religion and Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
15.00	Discussant, group debate Professor Vini Lander, Edgehill University
15.50	Plenary
16.00	Close of meeting

Bursaries

BERA offer a limited amount of bursaries for BERA Student Members only.

Bursaries are available for BERA Student Members to the value of £50 towards travel, and complimentary registration for the event.

To apply for one of these bursaries, please email events@bera.ac.uk with a 200 word statement on why you want to attend this event. Bursaries are offered on a first come, first served basis. Once approved you will be sent details of how to register online. Travel expenses will be reimbursed after the event in accordance with our travel policies. You must not have previously received bursary funding from BERA in the current year.