I have been asked to draw your attention to a colloquium on Education, Value and the Art of Living at St Michael, Cornhill in London on 14th November.
The one-day event aims to prompt discussion about the meaning and purpose of education in the context of its perceived instrumentalization in the United Kingdom at present.
Exploring the topic from a host of perspectives — contemporary and historical, political and cultural, personal and institutional, at home and away — the colloquium will open up a set of arguments about teaching, learning, value, and the ‘art of living’.
In contradistinction to any conception of education as merely a service industry for advanced capitalism, the papers offer a bracing challenge to prevailing orthodoxies in the search for a more adequate understanding of what education can be for human flourishing.
Twenty-minute papers will include the following and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion (paper titles subject to confirmation):
The Joys and Dangers of Distinctiveness, The Revd Dr Matt Bullimore
Union and Division: Irish Education around 1801, Professor Claire Connolly
More value than many sparrows?, Marius Carney, English Martyrs Catholic School, Leicester
Education and the Common Good, Lord Glasman
On forgetfulness, Professor Francis O’Gorman
The liberal tradition and human flourishing, The Rt Revd Dr Stephen Platten
Teaching Contested Pasts: the Educative Value of the History of Empire, Professor Andrew S. Thompson
Waged: £17; unwaged £13: lunch (included) will be provided by the Drapers’ Company in Drapers’ Hall.
To reserve a place at the colloquium, please send a cheque made out to ‘St Michael’s Cornhill P.C.C.’ to Kay Norman, St Michael’s Cornhill, St Michael’s Church Vestry, Cornhill, London, EC3V 9DS, kay@st-michaels.org.uk, by 1st November 2014.
The one-day event aims to prompt discussion about the meaning and purpose of education in the context of its perceived instrumentalization in the United Kingdom at present.
Exploring the topic from a host of perspectives — contemporary and historical, political and cultural, personal and institutional, at home and away — the colloquium will open up a set of arguments about teaching, learning, value, and the ‘art of living’.
In contradistinction to any conception of education as merely a service industry for advanced capitalism, the papers offer a bracing challenge to prevailing orthodoxies in the search for a more adequate understanding of what education can be for human flourishing.
Twenty-minute papers will include the following and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion (paper titles subject to confirmation):
The Joys and Dangers of Distinctiveness, The Revd Dr Matt Bullimore
Union and Division: Irish Education around 1801, Professor Claire Connolly
More value than many sparrows?, Marius Carney, English Martyrs Catholic School, Leicester
Education and the Common Good, Lord Glasman
On forgetfulness, Professor Francis O’Gorman
The liberal tradition and human flourishing, The Rt Revd Dr Stephen Platten
Teaching Contested Pasts: the Educative Value of the History of Empire, Professor Andrew S. Thompson
Waged: £17; unwaged £13: lunch (included) will be provided by the Drapers’ Company in Drapers’ Hall.
To reserve a place at the colloquium, please send a cheque made out to ‘St Michael’s Cornhill P.C.C.’ to Kay Norman, St Michael’s Cornhill, St Michael’s Church Vestry, Cornhill, London, EC3V 9DS, kay@st-michaels.org.uk, by 1st November 2014.
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