Thread: 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.

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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
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