Past seminars 2005-2006

Pedagogies of Practice: Learning for active citizenship

Thursday 6 July 2006
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Speakers:
Dr Sue Jackson and Jan Etienne - click here for presentation
Dr Isabelle Fremeaux

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Work Based Learning

Tuesday 6 June 2006, 1.45pm -5.00pm
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Venue: The Council Room, Birkbeck, Malet Street

Speakers:
Professor Karen Evans (Institute of Education)
Dr Anita Walsh (Birkbeck): 'Not Teaching but What?   Academic Support of Higher Level Learning in the   Workplace'- click here for presentation

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Pedagogies of Practice: Researching informal learning

Thursday 27 April 2006
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Speakers:
Peter Templeton, WEA: 'The learner at the centre of the process?' - click here for presentation
Richard Clarke, Birkbeck: 'Inter-War Informal Adult Education – social change, social therapy or social control?'
The case of the Selborne Lecture Bureau - click here for presentation
Jan Etienne, Birkbeck: “I’m suddenly somebody!” – Informal learning and the Women’s Institutes - click here for presentation

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Pedagogies of Practice: Researching part-time adult learners

Thursday 9 March 2006
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Speakers:
Alan Woodley: Do Open University graduates differ from Birkbeck graduates? Does it matter?- click here for presentation
Anne Jamieson, Birkbeck: Mature students in Higher Education: does age matter?- click here for presentation
Cathie Hammond, Institute of Education: The wider benefits of part-time mature study at Birkbeck College: What works and for whom?- click here for presentation

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Women in higher education and lifelong learning: surviving and thriving!

Thursday 17 November 2005

A  joint seminar between WiLL (Women in Lifelong Learning Network) and WHEN (Women in Higher Education Network)

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Pedagogies of Practice 2005/06

Friday 4 November 2005: Community Education

Speakers:
John Annette, Birkbeck - click here for presentation
Yvonne Hillier, City University - click here for presentation
Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths - click here for presentation

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Developing a gendered analysis of the discourses and practices of lifelong learning

ESRC Seminar Series: Gender and Lifelong Learning

17 June 2005
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Speaker: Sue Jackson

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Time and generation in researching the life histories of adult learners

13 May 2005

Speaker: Professor John Field
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Mature students in higher education: motivation and benefits

14 March 2005

Speaker: Anne Jamieson
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Course-related voluntary work experience and lifelong learning in Birkbeck’s Volunteer Programme, 2002-04

17 February 2005

Speaker: James Simister
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