From the HEA Arts and Humanities Newsletter

Workshops taking place in November and December 2013

Learning across disciplinary divides: integrating art and science through emergent curriculum design, University of Westminster, 20 November 2013.

Using the Broad Vision art/science learning project as a case study, this seminar aims to stimulate debate on the processes, successes and challenges of working across disciplines in higher education.

Exploring and examining expertise in Media teaching, learning and assessment; enhancing courses, developing resources, De Montfort University, 4 December 2013.

As the interdisciplinary Leicester Media School at De Montfort University establishes, media programme provision and related academics from arts, humanities and technology are coming together. This seminar will explore current learning and teaching practices, examine and share best practice, and develop interdisciplinary models for curriculum development across media in HE.

Philosophical enquiry: its method and purpose in higher education, Heythrop College, 6 December 2013.

Philosophical Enquiry is a powerful pedagogy grounded in Philosophy for Children (P4C), successfully established in schools. Delegates will be introduced to its theory, practice, and relevance to Higher Education. Examples of its use at Heythrop College and other HEIs will demonstrate its application in learning, teaching and the development of transferable skills and employability across academic disciplines.

Happenings and knowledge promenades: working cross discipline, University of Arts Bournemouth, 17 December 2013.

The workshop explores the value and potential of cross discipline collaborative activities and the dynamism of the Happening and the “knowledge promenade” in learning and teaching. Diverse case studies from a range of disciplines will provide inspiration and focus for interactive group activities that will develop further creative cross discipline ideas and collaborative opportunities that can make future “Knowledge Promenades” and Happenings . . . happen.

Events listed by discipline.

You will find information on all discipline specific workshops, seminars, and other HEA hosted or funded events, and selected non-HEA events via the following links:

Archaeology

Art and Design

Dance, Drama and Music

English and Creative Writing

History

Journalism

Languages

Media and Communications

Philosophy and Religious Studies

 

FW: Open Webinar on Games Based Learning in HE

 

 

From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Christine Smith
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To: SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Open Webinar on Games Based Learning in HE

 

Please join our open webinar on Thursday 7th November (this week) from 12.30-1.30pm on Games based learning in HE. The webinar will be led by Dr Nicola Whitton from Manchester Metropolitan University. To register please go to www.snap.vu/b3rf

Thanks so much and look forward to seeing you there!

 

Chris

University Campus Suffolk

Heroes and monsters: extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in > the arts and humanities Manchester, UK

Heroes and monsters: extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in

> the arts and humanities Manchester, UK

> 2 - 4 June 2014

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> Call for contributions

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> The 3rd annual Higher Education Academy Arts and Humanities annual learning and teaching conference will take place in Manchester, 2 - 4 June 2014, and we are inviting contributions which explore the everyday business of learning and teaching through metaphors and narratives in order to make strange the 'taken-for-grantedness' of our academic practice.

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> Monsters dwell in the hinterlands of the known world, symbolic expressions of cultural unease. Inhabitants of an imagined realm adjunct to the everyday, monsters offer powerful tropes and tools for learning and teaching in the arts and humanities. This conference asks how monsters can unnerve and innervate those working in arts and humanities higher education today. We consider how monstrous pedagogies can disrupt the realities and habits of higher education in the arts and humanities, and articulate different ways of being for learners and teachers in the disciplines.

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> We are looking for papers, debates, workshops, PechaKucha presentations, and posters which transfigure our practice and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into fantastic tales of the unexpected, and which draw upon the richness and diversity of our disciplinary practices. We are also calling for creative and unconventional pre-conference workshops.

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> For more details about the conference and the call please visit our

> website at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/arts-humanities-conf-2014. For

> updates please follow us on Twitter @HEA_AH and hashtag #HEAmonsters

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FW: Call for Papers - Paulo Freire and Transformative Education: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities Conference - UCLan - 28th April 2014 – 1st May 2014

 

Paulo Freire and Transformative Education: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities

'Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage'. Paulo Freire

28th April 2014 – 1st May 2014

An International four day Conference at Preston, UK

 

 

Organised by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) School of Education and Social Science and The Freire Institute

 

Keynotes: Professor Ana Maria (Nita) Freire

Professor Mohammad Nizamuddin, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gujrat, Pakistan

Professor Tim Ireland of The Federal University of Paraíba (UFPb), João Pessoa, Brazil

 

Dates: 28^th April – 1^st May 2014 - (Full Conference Costs for the 4 days attendance £350, other attendance options available)

 

Day 1 Arrival- Conference Programme Starts, Conference Dinner (separate cost)

Day 2 Conference Programme Full Day, Close of Conference

Days 3 & 4 - Workshops on Freirean Pedagogies

 

 

Call for Papers

 

Broad themes are invited exploring segregated communities, mobility, border crossing, and associated pedagogies, the emphasis being on impact and transformation.

 

Proposals for presentations should address a range of themes including, but not limited to research, case studies and education promoting and supporting:

·         social mobility, empowerment and conscientization

·         ability/disability

·         pedagogical approaches

·         popular education and the solidarity economy

·         globalization, internationalization, and transformation

·         bridging diversity and communities

Relevance to pedagogical practice and its impact is required

 

We encourage presenters to make papers, workshops and posters interactive so as to promote a dialogue around potential contribution and impact on the wider community. Contributions should emphasize transformation and empowerment through research and pedagogical practice.

 

 

Submitting Your Proposal

 

300 word abstract describing the research, link to themes and impact of outcomes by the 30^th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to: freireconference2014@uclan.ac.uk

 

Please contact Dr. Alethea Melling on amelling@uclan.ac.uk or Dr. Ruth Pilkington on rmhpilkington@uclan.ac.uk for further discussion.

 

 

Abstracts will appear in the conference handouts, and online.  Selected papers papers will form an edited book addressing pedagogies of diversity and empowerment.

Proposals are currently ongoing with Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Deadline for abstracts: end January 2014

Feedback: February 2014

Final abstracts and draft papers: March 2014

 

Guidance on Submissions:

 

Papers: 30 minutes including an outline of how the subject of the paper will promote dialogue as well as sharing of practice. Minimum of 20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes discussion

Poster Presentations: 15 minutes including questions and discussion giving an account of research, experience, evaluation, policy or practice with the emphasis on drawing out lessons for others and engaging participants. Posters will be grouped around themes and encourage broad involvement, dialogue and dissemination.

Workshops: 90 minutes to explore new methods, interventions and approaches.  Workshops are expected to

maximize interactivity and engagement for participants