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 we offer is a unique insight into the experience and knowledge of a practitioner on the chalk face. We have distinct narrative and he encourages us to “Go tell it”, criticise other narrative not taken from eye witness data, challenge that data and the findings.
Each of us from the MPhil – 18 practitioners on the PT and 9 on the FT, as well as the 23 students on the Research Development Fellowship short course MA has written a research project on what its like to teach, train and lead in our institutions. Where the gaps in the system are that we think could be bettered, developed and grown. And this all done from surveys, interviews, diaries, circles, case studies and critical incidence. New original data, never been captured before. Disseminate the research, tell how the investigation has changed practice, tell policy makers tell academic journals, tell conferences (and blog readers) . ETF want to develop change agents in us so we can change:-
·         Education policy
·         New FE research on learning, leading, practitioners and teaching
·         Create effective pedagogy



images: selfie with my academic poster
Dr Sam Broadhead talking about Practical Wisdom.

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