Critical perspectives on professional learning
This one-day conference is the seventh in a series on professional learning, organised by the University of Leeds, and Birkbeck, University of London. It is intended for all those working with professional learning, broadly defined. It will be relevant for those concerned with initial and ongoing professional learning, both in work and in educational contexts; it therefore focuses on professional learning in universities, workplaces and in and continuing professional development and education.
The theme, Critical perspectives on professional learning, signals that we are seeking papers which are critical of received ideas pertaining to professional learning. Papers will probably focus on a specific profession or context, but since this is an opportunity for cross-professional debate, argument and theoretical and empirical development, all proposals should reflect issues which relate more broadly to other arenas. Papers will draw on research, theory and critical analysis.
Participants will come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds such as education, medicine, health and social care, law, engineering and management. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners concerned with the training and development of professionals.
Papers from the first conference were recently published by Routledge in a book, Beyond Reflective Practice, edited by the organisers of this conference, Helen Bradbury, Nick Frost, Sue Kilminster and Miriam Zukas. Papers from the fourth conference have appeared in a special of the journal. Studies in Continuing Education. Papers from the sixth conference will also be appearing in a special issue of Studies in Continuing Education.