Learning and Skills Research Network Conference

Learning and Skills Research Network
Conference

 

Practitioner
Research in the learning and skills sector:

Developing
professional identity and practice

London, Thursday 4 December 2008, 9:45am
– 4:15pm

For more information: www.niace.org.uk/conferences

 

Summary

This annual LSRN conference will provide participants with
the opportunity to explore and debate the notion of professionalism, including
questions around where, how and whether professionalism exists or is being
eroded or developed (or not) for staff and students in the sector.

 

Background:

The Learning and Skills Research
Network (LSRN) was set up in 1997 and works collaboratively with multiple
partner organisations. It is a network based in the regions of England with links to partners in Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland.
It brings together people involved in producing and making use of research in
the learning and skills sector and higher education.

 

The theme of this year’s conference, professional
identity and practice is of huge importance to colleagues working across the
sector. The nature of professionalism and professional identity in its current
contexts continues to be problematic, contested, and debated.

 

Aims

This conference will:

·       
help participants engage with research and
development in the learning and skills sector

·       
disseminate and debate research findings relating to
professional identity and practice.

 

Audience

This event will be of particular interest to
practitioners in:

·       
Adult and Community Learning

·       
Further and Higher Education

·       
Learning and Skills Councils

·       
Lifelong Learning Networks

·       
Prisons

·       
Private Training Providers

·       
Probation Services

·       
Trade Unions

·       
Voluntary and Community Sector

·       
Work-based learning providers.

 

Event Information

Delegate Fee: £150 (includes lunch, tea/coffee)

Enquiries to
NIACE Conferences Team - Tel: 0116 204 2833 /

E-mail: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk