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Education and Development: Exploring the Worlds of Difference

Join Professor Chris Husbands at the LIDC Conference 2013 to delve into the various facets of education and development, highlighting the differences that drive impact. Explore the role of education in transforming lives, shaping opportunities, and influencing economic and social performance. Understand how classrooms, teachers, learners, curriculum, pedagogies, and accountabilities contribute to the educational landscape. Gain insights into the different variants of learning and the overarching purposes of education in a globalized world. Discover diverse perspectives on education's significance in bridging gaps and fostering intelligible discourse among people from varying backgrounds.

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Education and Development: Exploring the Worlds of Difference

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  1. LIDC Conference 2013 Education, learning development: what differences make the difference? Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London www.ioe.ac.uk  @director_edu

  2. Three ways of thinking about education in an interconnected world Education: a silver bullet in the transformation of lives and opportunity? Education as an indicator of economic and social performance Education as a way of understanding cultural practices

  3. Classrooms and teachers...worlds of difference?

  4. Classrooms and learners...familiarity

  5. Some features of teaching settings (classrooms, seminars, lectures) Local Transactional Ephemeral

  6. What’s there? Curriculum Pedagogies Accountabilities

  7. The variants of learning?

  8. What is education for? • Levelling the playing field • Elevator to the top • Relative mobility • Constant upward movement

  9. “The next necessary thing ... is to enlarge the possibility of intelligible discourse between people quite different from one another in interest, outlook, wealth, and power, and yet contained in a world where tumbled as they are into endless connection, it is increasingly difficult to get out of each other's way" Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: the anthropologist as author

  10. LIDC Conference 2013 Worlds of difference? Education and development Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London www.ioe.ac.uk  @director_edu

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