Lunch Hour Lecture: Object-based learning and wellbeing: a case for slow and authentic education

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About the Lecture
In an ever more connected and digital world we tend to assume that information is available at the press of a button. However, what such instant content cannot provide is deep understanding and personal meaning making. For this to happen, a slow and more intense engagement is required. In this lecture I will argue that material culture, and in particular heritage and museum collections, are ideally suited to create opportunities for such slow learning and meaning making. As an increasing body of research demonstrates, such authentic and experiential engagements do not only have educational benefits but can also help to support human wellbeing. The lecture will present some of this research, which will form the basis for a new and innovative Masters programme at UCL East, alongside a number of practical case studies. It will be followed by several practical object handling workshops at the Grant Museum of Zoology (separate booking required).

About Festival of Culture

This five-day-long festival (3-7 June 2019) features a packed programme of exclusive appearances, talks, debates, workshops, live performance, walking tours, film screenings and exhibitions, showcasing the world-class research being carried out by staff and students from across the arts, humanities, social sciences and education.

Playing host to a wealth of award-winning authors, iconic artists, emerging talent, international writers and leading thinkers, UCL’s fourth Festival of Culture offers over 70 opportunities to engage with the ground-breaking ways in which UCL research challenges social norms, confronts the past and helps us to think critically about the present.

About UCL East
UCL East is the largest ever single expansion of UCL since we were founded nearly 200 years ago.
UCL East will be a world-class campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, bringing together researchers, students, communities and partners to collaborate on solutions to the biggest, and most fundamental, challenges facing humanity – both today and in the future.

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