The 2010 KASS Conference
\u2018What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated?\u2019
Saturday October 9th – 10am till 4pm<\/p>\n
This follow-up conference to the KAS Society\u2019s highly successful \u2018Should Education Make You Happy\u2019 is filling up fast. Places are limited so if you are planning to attend and haven\u2019t yet registered, please send in your registration form soon.<\/p>\n
\u00a315 or \u00a310 for KAS staff (includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch)
To register, please contact Lisa Keane (details below)<\/p>\n
Does being \u2018well-educated\u2019 simply consist of having the maximum number of A*s or should we develop a broader definition of educational success? A chance to reappraise why we send children to school, this conference\u2019s high-profile speakers are:<\/p>\n
* Emeritus Professor John White from the Institute of Education, with new ideas on how to reduce the current \u2018insane\u2019 pressure on pupils and how to \u2018prevent the education system being a mechanism for separating life\u2019s winners and losers\u2019
* Steve Nelson, Head of Calhoun school in New York, where \u2018children\u2019s interests are not a detour from the curriculum, they are the curriculum\u2019, first public talk in the UK
* Dr Catherine Burke from Cambridge University, on taking children seriously in designing education(following her 2001 project with the Guardian asking children to imagine their ideal school)
* Stephen Law, editor of the Royal Society of Philosophy\u2019s magazine THINK, who will defend liberal approaches to raising a \u2018good person\u2019
* Professor Frank Furedi, the sociologist most-often turned to by the UK\u2019s media, on the \u2018infantilisation\u2019 of education
* Professor Kathryn Ecclestone on whether developing emotional well-being is a progressive or diminished goal for education<\/p>\n
BBC radio producer Piers Plowright, Prix Italia triple winner, will be chairing.<\/p>\n
***A late addition to the programme: UNICEF\/Frances Bestley on their belief that an understanding of rights and responsibilities is central to being \u2018well-educated\u2019.<\/p>\n