Colloquium on Transitions, 24 - 25 October 2003: Detailed Programme

Garden Room, South Cloisters, University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Higher education is a context for transition between and across different boundaries. The first theme of the Colloquium, interdisciplinarity, relates to the boundaries that exist between disciplines used to investigate the world. These boundaries may be institutional, conceptual, linguistic and cultural. The opening theme suggests some of the difficulties and possibilities of communicating and working across these boundaries and grappling with their different traditions.

The second theme develops the idea that language, identity and writing are developed in significant ways through the process of transition. Mathematics is a special form of symbolic representation or language which requires sometimes difficult transitions in ways of thinking. Gaps and transition: thinking in mathematics is a Colloquium theme which will explore this.

Whatever the language or culture through which the world is explored, our understanding of it is based upon the evidence and context of investigation. Such exploration, however, is not limited by the time-frames of formal education; its purpose is rather to enhance the possibilities for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.

Friday 24th October 2003
13.30	Registration and coffee
14.00	Opening Session
	Welcome: Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL Introduction to the Colloquium: Toni Griffiths Director of Education and Professional Development, UCL
14.30	Theme 1: Interdisciplinarity
	Introduction: Professor Stephen Rowland Department of Education and Professional Development, UCL Respondents: Professor Brian Hurwitz, Department of English Language and Literature, King’s College London Professor Ron Barnett, Institute of Education
15.45	Tea and coffee
16.00	Theme 2: Identity, language and writing
	Introduction: Professor Tim Mathews, Department of French, UCL Respondents: Dr Beate J Perrey, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge Dr Colleen McKenna, Department of Education and Professional Development, UCL
17.15	Break
17.30	Theme 3: Gaps and transitions: thinking in Mathematics
	Introduction: Professor Margaret Brown Professor of Mathematics Education, King’s College London Respondents: Dr Robert Bowles, Department of Mathematics, UCL Dr Elena Nardi, School of Education and Professional Development, University of East Anglia
18.30-20.30	Light buffet reception Haldane Room, South Cloisters, UCL

Saturday 25th October 2003
09.15	Reflections and review
09.45	Theme 4: Evidence and context
	Introduction: Dr Jason Davies, Department of Education and Professional Development, UCL Respondents: Professor Philip Dawid, Department of Statistical Science, UCL Dr Hasok Chang, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
11.00	Coffee and tea
11.15	Theme 5: lifelong learning
	Introduction: Professor Phil Brown, Centre for Critical Research on Economic and Social Transformation, Cardiff University Respondents: Professor Stephen Machin, Department of Economics, UCL Professor Michael Eraut, University of Sussex
12.30	Conclusions
13.00	Close of Colloquium

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