Policy Forums and Seminar Series
Roehampton University Policy Forum Meetings
‘Childhood: Therapeutic and Educational Perspectives’
Research Centre for Therapeutic Education
in association with:
Centre for Beliefs, Rights and Values in Education,
and
Early Childhood Research Centre
This innovative series of Policy Forum seminars takes forward the themes first explored at Roehampton University last December when the university’s Research Centre for Therapeutic Education hosted a participative day-seminar with signatories to the September 2006 Daily Telegraph ‘toxic childhood’ letter and prominent shadow ministers from the political parties. The dialogues about core educational issues that took place in December are now being extended and deepened in this new series, in which major academic, professional and political figures in the broad education field will explore together some of the key policy issues that currently face educationalists and policy-makers, with the aim of clarifying and informing the key policy debates which promise to dominate educational policy-making in the coming years.
Whitelands College, Parkstead Building, Room 1014
7th Feb 2008
Human Scale Education and the Relational
Thursday 7th Feb 2008
<<Human Scale Education and the Relational>>
Fiona Carnie
(Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and Consultant to Human Scale Education; former National Coordinator of Human Scale Education)
Mike Davies
(former Head of Bishops Park School; now consultant to ‘Building Schools for the Future’)
Chair: Dr Richard House
Thursday 6th March 2008
<<Sexuality and Education>>
Dr Max Biddulph
(Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Human Relations, School of Education, Nottingham University)
Professor Debbie Epstein
(Cardiff School of Social Sciences)
Chair: Professor Del Loewenthal
Previous Forums:
10th May 2007
Childhood and Therapeutic Education
James Park (Director of 'Antidote')
& Dr Dennis Hayes
(Head of Centre for Professional Learning, Canterbury Christ Church University)
Chair: Professor Del Loewenthal
14th June 2007
Infancy Culture and Emotional Wellbeing
Professor Helen Penn (Professor of Early Childhood Studies, UEL)
& Dr Ricky Emanuel (Head of Child Psychotherapy, Royal Free, London)
Chair: Dr Peter Elfer
All policy forum meetings to take place on Thursday evenings from 6.30 for 7.00pm until 9:00pm
Whitelands College, Parkstead Building, Room 1014
For further information contact either:
Professor Del Loewenthal – d.loewenthal(at)roehampton.ac.uk
Or
Dr. Richard House – r.house(at)roehampton.ac.uk