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Saturday timetable

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SATURDAY

GULBENKIAN GALLERY
[capacity: 200]

LECTURE THEATRE 1
[120]

SEMINAR SPACE
[120]

LECTURE THEATRE 2
[40]

CAFÉ
[40]

10.10-10.20

WELCOME ADDRESS

 

 

 

 

10.30-12.00

KEYNOTE:
Innovation in an era of caution

EDUCATION:
Modernising the curriculum - the tyranny of relevance?

COMMUNITY:
What is community?

BOOKS:
Critics on trial

10.35-11.45
Has undercover television become too voyeuristic?

12.00-13.30

 

12.15-13.15

LUNCHTIME FILM
and debate: 'Classroom Chaos'

12.15-13.15

DEBATING MATTERS:

Sixth Form Debate

12.15-13.15

LUNCHTIME FILM
and debate: "If You Could Teach the World One Thing..."

LUNCH

13.30-15.00

KEYNOTE:
Creativity - just another mantra?

EDUCATION:
The Learning Styles controversy

COMMUNITY:
Social capital vs multiculturalism

BOOKS:
Battle for the canon

13.40-14.55:
Should scientists play God?

15.00-15.30

 

 

 

 

 

15.30-17.00

KEYNOTE:
Is morality making a comeback?

EDUCATION:
New Professionalism - the fate of the teacher in the era of Every Child Matters

COMMUNITY:
The politics of behaviour

BOOKS:
The Battle of the Books

15.45-17.00
The rise and rise of Evolutionary Psychology

17.00-17.15

 

 

 

 

 

17.15-18.00

PROVOCATION LECTURES:
Go to university: stop thinking?

WHAT NEXT... for anti-terrorism?

INSPIRATION LECTURES:
Which books inspired me?

 

 

18.00-21.00

RECEPTION FOR ORGANISERS, SPONSORS AND SPEAKERS

Informal drinks - the Hereford Arms,
127 Gloucester Road SW7

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