[ecrea] ESRC Educational Futures Seminar Series

> Invitation to the first in the ESRC â??Educational Futuresâ?? Seminar Series
>
> The first seminar in an interdisciplinary ESRC 
> funded series on Educational Futures will 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 our ideas of economic and environmental 
> futures are subject to weekly change; when it is 
> suggested that new bio-technologies will offer 
> radically new human/technical futures, and when 
> the consequences of our actions may 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 
> can be found 
> at:  <http://edfutures.futurelab.org.uk/>http://edfutures.futurelab.org.uk/
>
> Should you like to attend, please RSVP to 
> Barbara Ashcroft on 
> <mailto:(b.ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(b.ashcroft /at/ mmu.ac.uk) 
>  Please note that places are limited to 35 
> people only and that there are no bursaries for 
> travel. Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.
>
> 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)
>
>
> Keri Facer
> Institute of Education
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> Didsbury Campus
> 799 Wilmslow Road
> Didsbury
> Manchester
> M20 2RR
> Tel: 0161 247 2412
> Email: <mailto:(K.Facer /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(K.Facer /at/ mmu.ac.uk)

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