CHEF talks in September

Chef Talk


The Philosophy of Higher Education: Concepts, Contours, Challenges

Date: September 8, 2020, 15.00-16.00

Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link after the registration deadline.

FeeFree

Registration deadline: 
September 3, 2020, 12.00

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Speaker: Ronald Barnett, Emeritus Professor, University College London, IOE, UK

The philosophy of higher education was born in the early 1990s and has since taken off across the world.  However, there has been little reflection as to the nature of the field and some element of reflexivity is surely now timely. In this talk, Ronald Barnett shall try to identify some key concepts, hazard some suggestions as to the contours and boundaries of the field, and point to some challenges.

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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.

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Registration deadline: September 8, 2020, 10.00

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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.

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Registration deadline: September 18, 2020, 12.00

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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.

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Registration deadline: September 24, 2020, 12.00

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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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