Learning in thinking communities: research and practice
4th March 2008, Conference at St James Park, Newcastle

This conference is the second to be run by the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University which has a national reputation of research in thinking and learning. The conference will provide opportunities for teachers, trainers and researchers from a range of learning contexts to keep up to date with new developments and to build their own capacity and understanding of how they fit with the contexts and circumstances in which they promote learning. It will provide an insight into some the developmental practice that is occurring across the country. In particular, there will be opportunities for new insights into thinking and learning beyond the traditional classroom; exploring other physical learning spaces, e-learning and social learning.

For further information contact Vivienne Moffett, Research Centre for Learning and Teaching, Newcastle University, Joseph Cowen House, St Thomas Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU. Tel: 0191 222 6943. Fax 0191 222 7534

Families for our times
7th March 2008, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE

This event is the fourth annual National Family Learning Network conference with the BBC Child of Our Times team. It will include new Child of Our Time research, which films children for 48 hours and analyses the quality and value of the communication they are exposed to, as well as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust's work on Engaging Parents Raising Achievement. The conference will also showcase innovative practice from across the country, including highly successful work on engaging men in learning with their children.

For further information please email Julie King on jking@cflearning.org.uk

Reaching the unreachables - teaching the unteachables
11th March 2008, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AB

“No-one is hard to reach, just more expensive to reach”, Paul Vittles

The latest National Learning Forum, run by the Campaign for Learning, will debate the concept and existence of ‘unreachable’ and ‘unteachable‘ groups, question whether the very notion of hard to reach undermines our aim and aspiration for an inclusive but diverse society and explore the need to balance the expense of outreach programmes against the significant cost to society of not reaching out.

Through keynote speeches, interactive debates and real world experiences, this event will explore ways of overcoming prejudices about those we work with and find ways to address the preconceptions and misconceptions of those who, for whatever reason, have come to believe that they are ‘out of the reach’ of learning.

For further information please contact Eleni Skaliotis on eskaliotis@cflearning.org.uk or 020 7766 0010.

Learning to learn confernce
24th April 2008, Manchester

Speakers will include Ian Gilbert, Indpendent Thinking Ltd, and Jackie Beere OBE. Further details to be announced.

For more information contact Rebecca Goodbourn on 020 7766 0018 or by email rgoodbourn@cflearning.org.uk

This learning life 2
19-21 June 2008, University of Bristol

This is the second international conference on education for real-life learning. This Learning Life 2 is a three-day exploration of how to narrow the gap between formal and informal learning. Speakers include US academics John Bransford and Barbara Rogoff, QCA Director of Curriuclum Mick Waters, and The Talent Foundation Chairman Bill Lucas.

For further information please visit www.thislearninglife.org

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