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This is a major international symposium being organized by Institute of Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, (IWBL, http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/index.asp ), in association with its partners in Cyprus. The aim is to bring together professionals and academics to exchange ideas on issues of current concern on workplace learning and practice, specifically focusing on how these might increase economic productivity. The symposium will provide a forum for the practitioners and academics by including workshops and research papers. The symposium will commence on the evening of 23rd June and papers will be given on the 24th and 25th June 2010. Key note speakers have been invited from the USA and Europe. The symposium will be the first to address how workplace learning can impact on how the economic downturn in economies of different sizes and constitution can engage, through education in the workplace and in academic institutions, to improve the well-being of their communities and their national wealth. The emphasis is one practical and theoretic exploration of the notion of workplace learning, how it can be encouraged and developed in all sizes of organisations – from micro through Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to larger organisations- and is expected to deal with the issues of finance, timing, accreditation, standards and competences and especially how higher education institutions can contribute to enabling organisations and individuals to succeed. An additional one day extension will focus on the philosophical issues related to work based and vocational education learning, chaired by Professor Chris Winch of Kings College London and Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. This third day of the conference will be held in a traditional Cypriot Village (ASGATA) about 15 minutes from the conference hotel (transport will be provided). Contributions should relate philosophical writing to the form and purposes of work based learning. The Call for Abstracts We encourage both conceptual and empirical papers as well as papers addressing timely and relevant issues to the symposium theme. Practitioner workshops will also be delivered by colleagues and an indication of areas of interest to both run and participate is requested. Work based learning in the development of the national/organisational economic development and recovery Economic theory applied to work force development Ethics of workplace development Professional expertise Best practice case studies The politics of work based learning Modelling the work force development processes Work based learning in regenerating SMEs Access to and implementation of programme seeking increased productivity The conference is supported through a website and it is hoped that the audience and speakers will be a mix of Cypriot participants and colleagues from North America. Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Guest speakers: Professor Chris Winch of Kings College London and Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain TBA |
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