Guest Lectures at your school or college - Education Studies

Typical lecture content could include:

1. What Is the Purpose of Education? The Transmission of Knowledge and Beyond.

Education is regarded as an important aspect of all human cultures. There is a desire to pass on ‘the best of what has been thought and said’ to the next generation in a society. How can this broad purpose of education be characterised and captured by academic theory? Is education simply the unproblematic ‘transmission of knowledge’ from teacher to learner or are there other ‘dimensions’ (perhaps ‘hidden dimensions’) to education that might challenge this unproblematic transmission from one generation to the next? Current cognitivist views of education (popular in the English education system) will be contrasted with alternative conceptions of the purpose(s) of education. 

2. Schooling England: Have the Last Schools Been Built?

What is the difference (if any) between schooling and education? How might schooling transform over the next decades in England? The perspective of ‘21st Century Skills’ will be explored in the context of the increasing digital enhancement of schools and classrooms. Is it possible to educate and ‘school’ learners at a distance? Is the promise of digitally enhanced education ultimately to abolish the need for school buildings? Can a school exist ‘in the cloud’? If the last schools have been built, what is the future of education.

How to book: Please contact outreach@bishopg.ac.uk if you would like to book a session.

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