Families, learning, impact and the national agendas

Research, policy and practice
Date: 22 Jan 2009 - 23 Jan 2009
Venue: Sheffield:
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Victoria Station Road, Sheffield S4 7YE
Ref: C1737/0109
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
Contact: Gurjit Kaur (gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk) Tel: 0116 204 2833
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[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, thoes working on the ground
  • The conferencee will offer all delegates a stimulating and thought-provoking environment in which to develop their ideas and practice, as well as an exciting network 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
 
*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
   
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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