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LIDC Conference 2013 Education, learning development: what differences make the difference? Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London www.ioe.ac.uk @ director_edu. Three ways of thinking about education in an interconnected world .
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LIDC Conference 2013 Education, learning development: what differences make the difference? Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London www.ioe.ac.uk @director_edu
Three ways of thinking about education in an interconnected world Education: a silver bullet in the transformation of lives and opportunity? Education as an indicator of economic and social performance Education as a way of understanding cultural practices
Some features of teaching settings (classrooms, seminars, lectures) Local Transactional Ephemeral
What’s there? Curriculum Pedagogies Accountabilities
What is education for? • Levelling the playing field • Elevator to the top • Relative mobility • Constant upward movement
“The next necessary thing ... is to enlarge the possibility of intelligible discourse between people quite different from one another in interest, outlook, wealth, and power, and yet contained in a world where tumbled as they are into endless connection, it is increasingly difficult to get out of each other's way" Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: the anthropologist as author
LIDC Conference 2013 Worlds of difference? Education and development Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London www.ioe.ac.uk @director_edu