2015: Creating a Culture for Learning to Learn *POSTPONED*
London04 November 2008
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| Time: 9am - 2.30pm Cost: £125 plus VAT How do current policy initiatives fit with learners’ attitudes to learning? By 2015, when all learners must continue with some form of education and training until they are 18, will the system be fit for purpose? Will the new secondary curriculum, Diplomas and qualification framework offer learners what they need? The Campaign for Learning’s 2008 National Learning to Learn Conference will be debating these questions, using recent findings from a specially commissioned MORI survey into the attitudes of learners and findings from the Campaign’s long-running Learning to Learn in Schools Project. In 1998 when the Campaign for Learning began we commissioned an Ipsos MORI Poll to determine the country’s attitudes to learning. Ten years on we have repeated the survey with both 11-16 years old and adults. This event will examine the implications of the survey for secondary school aged learners. The Campaign for Learning’s Learning to Learn action research project has been running for 8 years, the longest running project of its kind in the country. The project is investigating ‘how involvement in Learning to Learn over time, has an impact on students’ and teachers’ views of themselves as learners, and how this, in turn, affects their knowledge and skills for learning to learn’. The event will be examining the implications of the project findings on current policy. Questions the event will debate are: · How have the attitudes of learners changed over the last 10 years? · Will raising the learning leaving age really increase participation? · Will the revised curriculum make learning more enjoyable? · How do learners learn best? · What do we need to do so that a survey in 2015 shows a culture of learning to learn fully embedded in schools? Speakers will include: · Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum, QCA · Dr Kate Wall of the University of Newcastle (Primary Investigator in the Campaign’s Learning to Learn Project) · Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive of the Campaign for Learning | ||||||||||||
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