Learning to be Professional

through a Life-wide Curriculum

University of Surrey, Guildford

Tuesday March 31st  & Wednesday April 1st  2009

A life-wide curriculum maximises opportunity for embracing the most inclusive concept of learning (whole life learning) and for encouraging and valuing learning and achievement from the widest range of experiences available to a learner. In this conference we want to encourage exploration of the concept in the context of enabling learners to develop the qualities, skills and personal agency necessary to become a good professional.

Call for Papers

Practitioners and researchers are invited to submit an abstract of up to 400 words using the template provided in the Registration Form. Papers must address one and ideally connect to more than one of the conference themes:

• Learning to be professional: how learners gain insights to and experience of the

              professional world: their journeys and stories

          of learning to be a professional.

• Qualities and personal agency needed to be a good professional and how these are developed through modules and programmes that seek to integrate learning from academic study, work, volunteering and other life experiences: the idea of a life-wide curriculum.

• Influence of Professional and Statutory Regulatory Bodies in shaping what it means to learn to be professional.

• Value of career development learning in the process of learning to be professional.

• Role of PDP in helping learners develop the skills and habits of reflection that enable them to learn to be professional.

• Use of technology to facilitate learning to be professional.

 

Deadline for Abstracts  February 20th 2009

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