Play to connect: Embedding playfulness into higher education learning and research
Date: September 10, 2020, 15.00-17.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link after the registration deadline.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: September 8, 2020, 10.00
Registration:  Here
Speaker: Alison James, Professor Emerita, University of Winchester, UK
In this webinar Alison James will be making the case for play as a valid and essential means of exploring what we know and how we know it. To do so, she will be drawing on her experiences of supporting playful and creative learning throughout her university career, and also from the raw data of her research project, 'The Value of Play in HE', which she am undertaking currently.
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Bodily grounds of learning: Embodying professional practice
Date: September 22, 2020, 10.00-11.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link after the registration deadline.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: September 18, 2020, 12.00
Registration: Here
Speaker: Gloria Dall’Alba, Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia
In research on learning to enter the professions, the significance of the perceiving, feeling, motile body is largely overlooked, especially outside teaching and teacher education. In this presentation, Gloria Dall’Alba explores what is entailed in learning to embody skilful performance by aspiring professionals. The recently prominent, highly technologised field of biotechnology is the empirical context for this exploration. Inquiring into learning with and through the lived body, as students endeavour to enact the practice of biotechnology, highlights features of the bodily grounds of learning. Based on this inquiry, some theoretical and educational implications can be identified for understanding and promoting learning for the professions.
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Democracy, Bildung and Play: Aesthetic matters in education
Date: September 28, 2020, 15.00-16.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link after the registration deadline.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: September 24, 2020, 12.00
Registration: Here
Speaker: Herdis Toft, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Play processes support democracy and Bildung, that is, formation/self-cultivation and human growth in social communities. A main purpose for (Danish) day care and educational institutions is education for democracy. This aim can be fulfilled through awareness of how democracy and Bildung are closely connected to forms of play representing aesthetical matters, that must not be neglected in education.
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