What are we educating for in early years education?
Thursday 4 May 2023, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
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Event Details
This seminar series explores the urgent question of what are we educating for through the education life cycle. In this seminar, we examine what are we educating for in early years education.
In this seminar, we examine what are we educating for in early years education by exploring the following questions:
1. What are we educating for in early years education? How does this relate to educational purposes in other stages of the education system?
2. Who should determine what we are educating for in early years education? What are the mechanisms through which this should be determined?
3. What roles should policy makers, practitioners and researchers have in shaping what we are educating for in early years education?
4. What are the current relationships between policy, practice and research in education and how might these be improved?
Panellists:
Please note that this is an in-person event only. Whilst it will not be possible to join the seminars virtually, after each seminar we will publish a reflective summary of the discussions that took place.
Speakers
Dame Margaret Hodge MP
Dame Margaret Hodge has been the MP for Barking and Dagenham since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She served as the first female Chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015 and held several government positions in the last Labour government, holding portfolios across education, work and pensions, business and culture.
Naomi Eisenstadt
After a long career in the NGO sector, in 1999 Naomi became Director of Sure Start. The Unit was responsible for delivering the Government’s commitment to free nursery education places, the national childcare strategy, and Sure Start, a programme aiming to reduce the gap in outcomes between children living in disadvantaged areas and the wider child population. Naomi then spent 3 years heading the Social Exclusion Task Force.
Educational Research, Lancaster University
Jo Warin is Professor of Gender and Social Relations in Education at Lancaster University. She has a longstanding research trajectory into gender in education especially in early childhood. She also researches the social and emotional lives of young people in school. Jo is Programme Director for the PhD in Education and Social Justice in the Department of Educational Research.
Contact Details
| Name | Sheila Walton |
| Website |
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/research/what-are-we-educating-for/ |