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'Educating for the Real World'

 

Wednesday September 29th 2010, 10.00-16.00

Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education,

University of Surrey, Guildford

Flyer

 

SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION

Professor Norman Jackson

 

PROGRAMME

 

EXHIBITION 

5min podcasts and videos of principles & practices 

for the design and delivery of real world education 

 

GALLERY

Snapshots from the day

 

 

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 Curriculum PracticeShare Pitches

          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 

https://store.surrey.ac.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=1&deptid=79&catID=89&hasClicked=1 

 

 

 

Developing capability through lifewide education

Norman Jackson 

The paper argues that to prepare students for the complexities of the world (their real world) we need to pay attention to the

development of students’ capability for dealing with real world situations. We talk a lot about student-centred learning but if we respected

the learner as the designer of their own life experience, which includes higher education as part of that experience, we would have more

chance of embracing, supporting and recognising their capability to deal with real world situations.

 

 

Ken Robinson talks about the need for a revolution in learning in schools but perhaps its even more important in higher education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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