What are we educating for across the educational system?
Wednesday 15 February 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 opening seminar we look across the education system to ask general questions of what we are educating for.
In this seminar, we look across the education system to explore the following questions:
1. What are we educating for in the education system? How does this change at different stages and levels of education?
2. Who should determine what we are educating for? 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?
4. What are the current relationships between policy, practice and research in education and how might these be improved?
Panellists: Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Baron Kenneth Baker, and Professor Gert Biesta
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 blogs that provide an insight into the discussions that took place.
Speakers
Baron Kenneth Baker of Dorking
Kenneth Baker is Chairman of Baker Dearing Educational Trust, which supports University Technical Colleges in England. He was elected to Parliament in 1968 and was a Junior Minister in Edward Heath's government. He held a series of Ministerial positions between 1981 and 1992, including three years as Secretary of State for Education and Science (1986-9). He was Home Secretary from 1990 to 1992. In 1997, he became Lord Baker of Dorking and is an active member of the House of Lords.
University of Edinburgh
Gert Biesta is Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy (part-time) and Deputy Head of the Institute of Education, Teaching and Leadership. He is also Professor of Public Education (part-time) at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research focuses on the theory of education and the theory and philosophy of educational and social research.
Department of Education, University of Oxford
Jo-Anne is Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. She has been Head of the Department of Education at Oxford, Standing Adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee, a member of Ofqual’s Standing Advisory Group on Standards, Chair of the National Reference Test Expert Group, a member of the Welsh Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Group and the Scottish Government’s Independent Review Group. Jo-Anne held academic posts at the Institute of Education.
Contact Details
| Name | Sheila Walton |
| Website |
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/research/what-are-we-educating-for/ |