Workplace learning, knowledge, practice and transformation Seminar
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:45
- Date:
- 25 May 2011
- Venue:
- Room 2209, Life Sciences Building (B85) (adjacent to the School of Education, B32) University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Peter Jones on +44 (0)23 8059 2642 or email p.d.jones@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
In association with the Lifelong and Work-related Learning Research Centre.
The seminar explores conceptualisations of workplace learning, knowledge and practice. It sets the discussion in its socio-economic context, one in which knowledge is seen as the route not only to societal competitiveness but also to wellbeing. Such arguments emphasise the turbulent environment in which work is set as well as the fluidity and rapidity in the transformation of knowledge. The seminar examines the different ways in which knowledge is conceptualised within these debates, arguing that transformation is frequently set on a capitalist terrain rather than being tied to a radical political project.
Speaker information
Professor James Avis , University of Huddersfield. James Avis' current reserarch interests include: Post-compulsory education – the re-engineering of education, the political economy of education, lived experience of learners and teachers, the re-visioning of professionalism, and politics and questions of social justice in education.