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Although Higher Education is very much part of the real world of our students and staff, we are using ‘real world’ to denote the world that lies outside formal education: a world that is dominated by experiences involving, work, play, entertainment, social interaction, family and friend relationships, and much informal learning.
Many Universities and colleges are recognizing that a more complete and relevant higher education seeks to combine and integrate academic and real world experiences of learning. Many universities are also paying attention to students’ development gained through informal learning in the many aspects of their lives that they choose to engage in outside their programme of study. This combination of perspectives might be defined as education for and in the real world.
What do we mean by educating for the real world and how do we design a curriculum that encourages, integrates, values and recognises this form of education? This one day symposium provides an opportunity for educational professionals to share thinking, practices, policies and research on how we design and create opportunity for combining and integrating academic and real world learning and experiences.
Programme
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Introduction Professor Norman Jackson
Keynote ‘Developing a Curriculum for the Real World: a whole institution approach
Dr Deborah Peach, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Real World Education Market
In these sessions we will use the poster and pitching techniques of the marketplace to share as much practice as we can in the time available.
12.00 Buffet lunch and networking around a poster exhibition.
Real World Curriculum PracticeShare Posters
13.0 Real World CurriculumPracticeSharePitches
5x5 pitches (5 slides x 5mins presentation) on a real world education theme.
14.45 Break
15.0 Evaluating learning and capability for the real world - plenary discussion
What do we value? What forms of evidence? How do we evaluate? What forms of recognition?
16.00 Finish
Contributions
If you would like to contribute to the practice share poster session or 5x5 pitches please send a short abstract by Friday September 3rd 2010.
Abstract format
Name
Role
Institutional address
Title of poster or mini-presentation
Abstract – description of practice/policy/research (up to 200 words)
Please send your abstract to Norman.Jackson@surrey.ac.uk
Cost £40
please use the University of Surrey online booking store for the Real World Symposium
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