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| Path: Home > Conferences > Forthcoming > Jan 09 > Family Learning Impact |
Families, learning, impact and the national agendas
Research, policy and practice
| Date: | Thursday 22 – Friday 23 January 2009 |
| Venue: | Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Victoria Station Road, Sheffield S4 7YE |
| Ref: | C1737 |
| Fee*: | £290 - Fully residential £230 - Fully non-residential £180 - Attendance on Day 1 to include lunch and dinner £100 - Attendance on Day 2 to include lunch (non-refundable); NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background] [Aims] [What participants will get out of attending] [How Participants will use what they've learnt] [Programme] [Application Form]
Background
Learning as a family and parental involvement in children’s education are leaping up the policy agenda. Growing amounts of research evidence are demonstrating the impact of family learning on national policy agendas. On the ground, practitioners are developing increasingly innovative ways of providing family learning and nurturing families as learning ecologies.
This NIACE/FLLAG research conference follows on from the huge success of the first conference in January 2008, which brought together for the first time, those involved in researching family learning with those involved in providing it. Feedback from the first conference showed how much both researchers and practitioners valued this opportunity to generate ideas and spark off each other:
“To engage 100 professionals in a two day debate around aspects of Family Learning was a coup; to be part of that debate a privilege”
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Aims
The aims of the 2009 conference are to:
 | Bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss and debate current thinking and issues around learning as a family |
| Examine how research, theory, policy and practice inter-relate |
| Share ideas about methodology that can be used to research and enhance learning as a family |
| Debate some of the tensions inherent in policy implementation, e.g. when does intervention become social engineering? |
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What participants will get out of attending the conference:
| For practitioners, the conference will provide a space that they don’t normally have, to discuss and debate the ideas and theories that affect their work |
| For researchers, it will provide an opportunity to discuss their research and ideas with, and to learn from, those working on the ground |
| The conference will offer all delegates a stimulating and thought-provoking environment in which to develop their ideas and practice, as well as an exciting networking opportunity. |
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How participants will use what they've learnt when they're back at work:
Participants will be able to take new ideas and thinking back to the workplace, which they can use to develop their practice and research in new and innovative ways.
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Programme
| Day 1: Thursday 22 January 2009 | |
| 11:00 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 11:20 | Welcome and introduction to the day |
| 11:30 | Keynote address: Families, learning and social engineering |
| 12:00 | Research methodologies: using
family stories to create family learning materials Dr Kate Pahl – Senior Lecturer, The School of Education, University of Sheffield |
| 12:30 | Current debates on policy and
practice Panel discussion |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 | Parallel presentation/discussion sessions* |
| 15:15 | Tea/coffee break |
| 15:30 | Parallel presentation/discussion sessions* |
| 16:30 | Parallel presentation/discussion sessions* |
| 17:30-18:00 | Reflection and discussion on the day’s discoveries |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner |
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*Following the deadline for submission of abstracts and concepts, topics for
parallel presentation sessions, based on the conference themes below, will
be finalised and publicised in December. 1. Research methodologies – a variety of views 2. Families, learning and social engineering 3. The links between theory and policy 4. Progression, outcomes, transferable skills and the language of learning 5. Impact and the national agendas |
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| Day 2: Friday 23 January 2009 | |
| 09:30 | Registration for day participants |
| 10:00 | Launch of Family Impact Findings, the practitioner research database |
| 10:20 | Research methodologies Discussion groups |
| 11:15 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:30 | Keynote address: Linking theory to
policy agendas Tom Schuller, Director of the Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning |
| 12:00 | Moving it forwards / next steps / summing up |
| 12:30 | Evaluation |
| 13:00 | Lunch and Depart |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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Application Form
(This form is for people not using the online reservation system above.)
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Download Application Form for this event (PDF file) Tip: to save toner, don't print the cover page |
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When you have printed out the Application Form, please complete the relevant sections on pages 7 & 8 and post them along with your purchase order (1) and/or cheque to: Gurjit Kaur, NIACE, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP or Fax it on 0116 254 8368. Please retain pages numbered 2 -6 for your information. For further information (or if you would like to be sent a paper version of the application form) please contact Gurjit Kaur, Tel: 0116 204 2833, email: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk stating your full postal address. (1) Application Forms from individuals must be
accompanied by a Sterling cheque or Banker's draft. Invoices will be raised on
organisations only if a Purchase Order is sent along with the Application Form.
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