Learning To Work, Working To Learn – Design in Educational Transformation

An evening lecture by Andrew Harrison, Director of Learning and Research, DEGW

Hosted by the Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University This event is being hosted by DEGW and is sponsored by Urban Learning Space.

Thursday 19th April 2007, 4pm- 6.15pm

Cost: free

The Workplace Forum lecture, by Andrew Harrison, will explore the impact of educational transformation on the university and school estate, the workplace and the community. A response will be given by Gordon Davies.

Education at every level in the UK is undergoing radical transformation. Universities are responding to changing demographics and economic pressures and the impact of technology on learning and teaching, further education’s role in skills development and preparing young people for the workplace is expanding through the widening participation agenda and schools are being radically transformed through the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ and the Scottish Schools PPP programmes.

Traditional pedagogies of teaching and learning are being challenged and debated at all levels of education, with change desired but no conclusions about the nature of the change emerging. What is certain is that these changes will have fundamental effects on the spaces needed for learning. The effect of this transformation will be felt well beyond the classroom as pupils and students enter the workforce with very different expectations about how they use time and space and how they blend living, working and learning.

Workplace Forum attracts some of the world’s key thinkers, business leaders and design innovators in a mutually supportive and exploratory environment.

To book a place please complete the registration form as soon as possible as places are strictly limited and fax to +44 (0)20 7278 3613 or email to Gabriel Hobbs