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

> 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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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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