Whiting & Birch

9th International Practice Teaching Conference

‘Learning for Practice, Learning in Practice: Exploring how practitioners develop knowledge, competence and wisdom in the human services’

Bournemouth University, 11th - 13th April 2011

Next year the conference will take place from 11-13th April 2011 on the theme of 'Learning for practice, learning in practice: Exploring the ways practitioners develop knowledge,competence and wisdom in the human services'. We are seeking proposals for workshops and papers on the following themes:

  • How do human service professionals develop practice wisdom in a complex global environment?
  • What happens to creative interprofessional cooperation in the face of competing demands?
  • How do we ensure congruence between that field education and classroom teaching and enable students to become practitioners?
  • Learning practice, to practice, about practice? What does it all mean?
  • How do we help professionals acquire the practice knowledge, skills and values to continue to work and perform well in late modern societies?
  • Theorising and researching teaching and learning in practice settings.
The call for papers is available for download below. Questions about the programme should be addressed to Professor Jonathan Parker, and about booking a place to the Organiser.

PROPOSALS SHOULD BE WITH US BY 30TH NOVEMBER 2010.

A selection of presentations from the 2010 event are now available for download here. We will also post the evaluation report.

Suggestions for future conferences in this series should be sent to Professor Jonathan Parker, e-mail: parkerj@bournemouth.ac.uk





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