What are we educating for in secondary education?
Wednesday 29 March 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 secondary education.
In this seminar, we examine what are we educating for in secondary education by exploring the following questions:
1. What are we educating for in secondary 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 secondary 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 secondary 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
University College London (IOE)
Nicola is Pro-Director for Education at UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE), and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, within which she leads a research group with internationally significant and sustained expertise in climate change and sustainability education. Nicola was originally a geography teacher.
Garratt Park School, Wandsworth.
Sharon Gladstone is Headteacher at Garratt Park School, Wandsworth. She has worked in five secondary schools in different parts of London, which all have an above average number of students on free school meals and for whom English is not their first language. Her current school is for students with special educational needs, where students are working a few years behind age expectations. It is social inclusion and fair access to education that has been, and continues to be, her driving force.
Sir Mike Tomlinson
Sir Mike Tomlinson was Chief Inspector and Head of Ofsted between 2000 and 2002. He was Chair of the Working Group set up by government to propose reform of the curriculum for 14-19 year-olds. He acted as Chief Adviser for London Challenge from 2008 to 2010. In 2014, he was appointed Education Commissioner for Birmingham to oversee reform.
Contact Details
| Name | Sheila Walton |
| Website |
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/research/what-are-we-educating-for/ |