Dear All,
This FYI from Jerome Satterthwaite by way of the LNC group
www.uq.edu.au/~uqpgraha/lncindex.html .
For more info, contact Jerome at:
<Jerome@satterthwaite01.fsnet.co.uk>
Best,
Phil
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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 PROGRAMME AND RATIONALE
What is the relationship between discourse, power and
learning in the post-compulsory sector? Post compulsory
education and training is changing: in place of what Lyotard
refers to as 'the idealist and humanist narratives of legitimation'
there is the principle of performativity, producing new
subjectivities of teacher, manager, researcher and student. How
and why, and with what success, are these subject positions
resisted? The conference aims to provide a forum for the
exploration of these issues.
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, primarily, but not exclusively, focused on
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. The closing date for
the receipt of submissions is 21 December 2001. Abstracts
should be submitted in PC format via email to
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: jsatterthwaite@plymouth.ac.uk
Information about the conference, including the programme, is
posted at
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/discourse-power-resistance.html
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.
Martin Bloomer
Martin leads a research project entitled Transforming Learning Cultures in
Further Education. Team members include Denis Gleeson (Warwick), Phil
Hodkinson (Leeds), David James (U. West of England) and Keith Postlethwaite
(Exeter). 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. Martin's main research interests are:
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.
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Phil Graham
Lecturer (Communication)
UQ Business School
www.uq.edu.au/~uqpgraha
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