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    Conference: Discourse Power Resistance in Post-Compulsory Ed

    Discourse Power Resistance in Post-Compulsory Education and Training

    Friday 12 April - Sunday 14 April 2002

    University of Plymouth
    Robbins Centre and Cookworthy Building

    The conference is hosted by The Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth

    CONFERENCE RATIONALE

    The conference is focussed on the relationships between discourse, power and learning across the post-compulsory sector: higher, further, community and adult education. Post compulsory education and training is changing: higher education is no longer free to understand itself in terms of what Lyotard refers to as ‘the idealist and humanist narratives of legitimation’ (the ‘dreaming spires’ vision of eternal truths unhurriedly pursued). Across the whole spectrum of post-compulsory education a relentless emphasis on performance, deriving from central government and primarily intended to produce a skilled workforce, is challenging that discourse. Should this emphasis to be resisted? Why? How?

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    The conference organisers are seeking to encourage presenta-tions on a wide range of topics related to issues of Discourse,
    Power and Resistance in post-compulsory education and training. The aim is to offer a range of formats: papers, workshops and symposia. Offers of papers should be in the form of an abstract of between 150 - 250 words, and should make clear the intended format: paper, workshop or symposium. Abstracts should be submitted in PC format via email to

    [email:tu3zr9yi]dpr@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:tu3zr9yi]

    or on disc to

    Jerome Satterthwaite
    School of Graduate Studies
    Charles Cross Centre
    University of Plymouth
    Drake Circus
    Plymouth PL4 8AA

    tel: 01752 232332
    email: [email:tu3zr9yi]jsatterthwaite@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:tu3zr9yi]


    Information about the conference, including the programme, is
    posted at

    [url]http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/discourse-power-resistance.html[/url]



    KEY SPEAKERS

    Elizabeth Atkinson

    Elizabeth Atkinson is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Sunderland, where she treads a fine line between delivering and critiquing government education policy. Her
    research and writing have focused on a wide range of educational and social issues, including educational policy and practice, identity and othering, sexuality and education, social justice and social change, and postmodern approaches to educational research. Her recent work offers a critique of government initiatives in education, aiming to deconstruct assumptions underlying the rhetoric of ‘improvement’, ‘standards’ and ‘what works’, and offering a voice of dissent in a world of educational compliance.


    Phil Hodkinson

    Phil co-leads with Martin Bloomer (Exeter), Denis Gleeson (Warwick), David James (U. West of England) and Keith Postlethwaite (Exeter) a research project entitled Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education. This is one of nine major research projects in teaching and learning, launched in September 2000 under Phase II of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme. Phil’s main research interests include Post-16 education: students’ experiences of knowledge and learning; transitions into adulthood: learning careers in a modern world.


    Beverley Skeggs

    Beverley taught at the universities of Keele, York and Lancaster before taking up her present post as Professor of Sociology at Manchester. She is very proud of being Co-director of Women’s Studies at Lancaster during 1994-97. She has published books on The Media, Feminist Cultural Theory, Formations of Class and Gender and has undertaken research on racism, class, sexuality, feminism and femininity across a range of different sites including education, popular culture and the labour market. She has recently completed a research project on Violence, Sexuality and Space and is currently writing two books, one on the Re-branding of Class from which this paper will be drawn and the other on The Politics of Violence and Sexuality.


    Chris Weedon

    Chris Weedon is Professor of Critical & Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. She teaches cultural theory and criticism and has published widely on cultural politics, postmodern
    theory, feminist theory and women’s writing. Her books include Feminism,Theory & the Politics of Difference (Blackwell 1999); Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World (with Glenn Jordan, Blackwell 1995), Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (second edition Blackwell 1996); and Postwar Women’s Writing in German (1997). She is currently writing a book on Culture and Identity.

    Booking Form

    Note: Please complete the form and return via email to [email:tu3zr9yi]dpr@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:tu3zr9yi]. Step 1: Save this booking form to disc, giving it a new name. Step 2. Complete the booking form and save again. Step 3: Attach the form to an email and send to [email:tu3zr9yi]dpr@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:tu3zr9yi]

    Alternatively, you may prefer to print this form and return it with payment or official order form through the post to: Cath Geden, Conference Administrator, School of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth, The Tower Room, Seale-Hayne Campus, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6NQ.

    Title First name Surname
    Department Institution
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    Tel. Fax Email

    Indicate your requirements for accommodation and meals by inserting an asterisk ( * ) in the relevant boxes below.
    Registration: £95.00
    Friday Saturday Sunday
    Accommodation: Copthorne Hotel B/B single en suite £60.00 £60.00 N/A
    Accommodation: Copthorne Hotel B/B shared 1 en suite £40.00 £40.00 N/A
    Dinner £10.95 £14.00 N/A
    Lunch N/A £7.25 £7.25
    Total:

    Dietary or other requirements (e.g. vegetarian):
    1 For allocation of shared accommodation please indicate whether you are male (M) or female (F):
    Payment to be sent to Cath Geden (address above). Please indicate (*) one option:
    I am forwarding my cheque (payable to University of Plymouth):
    Please invoice me for my fees (institutions only). I am forwarding an official order:
    Lucy Vaysman
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    I'm new to this website so Imay be putting this message in the wrong place. My message relates to the information about the conference on Discourse Power Resistance in Post-Compulsory Education and Training. The information given is correct; but the format of the booking forms has got lost, so the form is unusable. If people want a booking form please will they contact [email:28qkf7q9]dpr@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:28qkf7q9] and we will send one, together with other information, the same day. If anyone wants to talk to me about the conference my number is 01752 823091 and my email is [email:28qkf7q9]jsatterthwaite@plymouth.ac.uk[/email:28qkf7q9].

    Best wishes

    Jerome
    Jerome

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    Thank you - I really experienced some difficulties posting this announcement. I appreciate your help.

    Sincerely,

    Lucy
    Lucy Vaysman
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