SRHE Annual Conference 2019 - Creativity, Criticality and Conformity in Higher Education
Date : du 11-12-2019 au 13-12-2019
Lieu : Newport
Modalité : présentiel
Organisation : Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
Programme :
The definition of creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, and interpretations. Universities should surely be creative places. The economic, political and social climate that universities work in across the world present challenges to this. In many cultures there is an emphasis on measurable, economic outcomes. Does this have to result in policy that emphasises only some parts of the work that universities do, obscuring important activities that often develop and thrive at the margins, or in the spaces between traditional functions? It could be argued that higher education researchers too draw on an increasingly limited range of methodologies, approaches and ideas that are often not persuasive to policy makers. Have we, in search of measurability and academic respectability, retreated to a dull conformity where anything different is just too risky? Should we instead challenge ourselves to transcend traditional rules, build an innovative culture and practice of research and problem solving, in order to throw light onto the shadows rather than ignore them? What is it we need to know more about in universities in relation to their role in the world, their place for social good and the building of global diverse societies? How can higher education researchers be creative in their approaches to illuminate these areas, and to make a positive difference in the world?
Keynote speakers:
Dynamic Perspectives on Creativity in Higher Education
Professor Lene Tanggaard
Professor of Psychology, Director of The International Centre for the Cultural Psychology of Creativity (ICCPC), University of Aalborg, Denmark
In Ref we trust? Some reasons to be cheerful
Professor David James
Cardiff University, Chair of REF2021 Sub-Panel 23 (Education)
Panel discussion: Preparing critical students for the post-truth era, Key Research QuestionsChair: Dr Neil Harrison, Deputy Director of the Rees Centre, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
- Dr Foluke Adebisi, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol, UK, Decolonisation is impossible: can we disrupt the co-optation of decolonial language within the neoliberal university?
- Dr Ibrar Bhatt, Lecturer in Education, Queen's University Belfast, The mechanics of trust in online practice
- Dr Elizabeth Hauke, Principal Teaching Fellow, Imperial College London, UK, Critical tensions: is STEM education stuck in a ‘truth era’?
- Dr Kathy Luckett, Director of the Humanities, Education Development Unit, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa, The importance of asserting epistemic relations and the institutional conditions for their protection in a post truth society
Closing debate: Creativity, criticality and conformity: the impact of competition
Professor Rajani Naidoo, Prosessor in Higher Education Management,
Director of the Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), School of Management, University of Bath, UK
Professor Ian Jamieson
Director, Chambers and Jamieson Associates Educational Consultancy, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK
La conférence est précédée par une journée réservée aux jeunes chercheurs : Newer & Early Career Researchers Conference
URL : https://www.srhe.ac.uk/.../default.asp
Ressources mises à disposition à l'issue de la manifestation :
• articles, résumés : https://srhe.ac.uk/.../conference-papers.html
Un livre des résumés est proposé en téléchargement (pdf, 96 p.) et les contributions sont également téléchargeables à l'unité (longueur très inégale) depuis la rubrique 'programme, papers & timetable'.
Elles sont aussi accessibles à partir du moteur de recherche de la bibliothèque numérique ARC.
mot(s) clé(s) : enseignement supérieur
