Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2018
Footscray, Melbourne
Thursday November 22, 3.30-5.00pm
This session will challenge the current but restricting mainstream understanding of why and how education should be provided.
Beginning with a presentation by Peter Alsen, Education – business as (un)usual? Teaching and Learning Beyond the Mainstream, this forum will address the current notion of educational objectives residing in a mindset of getting everyone ready to enter the workforce. Secondly, that education will improve and advance if there is a marketplace of options someone can choose from. It will put forward a case for education beyond an area of competition, with teaching and learning as an economic transaction.
This will be followed by the Pop Up School and Knowledge Project presentation and forum with Mary Dixon and Karen Charman, outlining the ongoing project to assert learning and knowledge as local, community-based, and grounded in a notion of place. This project also seeks to document and offer an alternative understanding of ‘curriculum’ specific to each locality.
This session is part of:
Public Pedagogies Institute Conference 2018
November 22-23
Footscray, Melbourne