Talking About Art

Taking the research on the road This has been an enlightening, sometimes humiliating and humbling experience. What with the tec, the flow and getting the preparation right. It has been a busy summer since teaching duties finished. Wheelie suitcase at the ready, USB stick in hand I marched forth to meet the tide of conference season. Weeks and weeks of finely honing my abstract and sending it out willy-nilly to all kinds of conferences and ‘call for abstracts’ call outs I was in a whirlwind of expectation and excitement. As the time grew closer the nerves built up. I stand in front of a class every day, standing up is what I do, and I really love teaching, formal lectures and passing on what I know. In addition to this standing up I also play in an Irish band and of course we are on stage front and centre standing up in front of crowds – entertaining. And one more I dance in an amateur dance troupe, Indian and Persian dancing. So I do a lot of being at the front, speaki...

Education and Training Foundation (ETF) annual conference Mary Ward House London monday 2 July 2018 We were welcomed by Proff Maggie Gregson who opened the conference talking about expanding the horizons of FE research, added to by Dr Lawrence Nixon and the Education and Training Foundation who fund FE research at SUNCETT, ETF was introduced by Paul Kessell Holland and a talk from Dr Samantha Broadhead on her newly published book co authored with Proffessor Maggie Gregson, on teaching Access, Practical Wisdom and Democratic Education. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Wisdom-Democratic-Education-Non-traditional/dp/3319733109/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530626474&sr=1-1&keywords=broadhead+and+gregson Later in the day was an address by the CEO of ETF, David Russell. Here is what he said. Our role as FE practitioners and researchers was to critique and extend current research and data in the sector often done by HE or ‘Big Data’ collectors. What w...