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[ecrea] Advance Invitation to the first in the ESRC 'Educational Futures' Seminar Series

Mon Oct 19 17:48:56 GMT 2009



Advance Invitation to the first in the ESRC 'Educational Futures' Seminar Series

You are invited to attend the first seminar in an interdisciplinary ESRC funded series on Educational Futures, to be held at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University on December 15th, 2009.

At a time when billions of pounds are being spent on â??building schools for the futureâ??, in which ideas of economic and environmental futures are subject to rapid change; when new bio-technologies are thought by some to promise to offer radically new human/technical futures, and when it is suggested the consequences of our actions are likely to be ever longer lived, strategies are needed for critical reflection and research into our ideas about and understandings of the future. This seminar series will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to explore the intellectual tools and resources, the existing traditions and new departures that might be mobilised to help us contribute to thinking intelligently and critically about the future in order to help us make better decisions in education today.

More details about this seminar and the series are attached.

Places are strictly limited and allocated on a first come first served basis and this series will be advertised more widely in one weekâ??s time. Should you like to attend, please RSVP to Barbara Ashcroft on <mailto:(b.ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(b.ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk)

Best wishes

Keri Facer, Mike Sharples, Carey Jewitt, Anna Craft, Richard Sandford, Simon Mauger

Manchester Metropolitan University,

Nottingham University,

London Knowledge Lab,

Exeter University,

Futurelab,

NIACE



For any questions about the seminar content, please contact Keri Facer on <mailto:(K.Facer /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(K.Facer /at/ mmu.ac.uk) . For all logistical enquiries, please contact Barbara Ashcroft on <mailto:(B.Ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(B.Ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk)

Barbara Ashcroft
Research Administrator
Institute of Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
799 Wilmslow Road
Manchester M20 2RR
Tel: 44 (0)161 247 2320
Fax: 44 (0)161 247 6353

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