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SUMMARY:What is the point of a faculty of education? - Professor Keith Tab
 er\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191111T163000Z
DTEND:20191111T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis lecture poses the question of what the purpos
 e and value of an education faculty or department might be in the modern u
 niversity. In particular\, it asks what the so-called ‘U.S.P.’ (unique
  selling point) of such an institution is\, and recognises the potential f
 or a large eclectic department to be seen as redundant in the context of a
  wider university. A faculty which looks too much like the university repr
 oduced in microcosm within one department opens itself up to being seen as
  potentially redundant and dispersible without losing anything essentially
  special. This lecture seeks to identify the particular expertise provided
  by an education faculty\, in relation to the proper specification of the 
 content of educational scholarship. An argument can be made that an educat
 ion faculty that wishes to remain viable at time of severe pressure on uni
 versity resources should\, as an imperative\, prioritise core work around 
 those areas of scholarship\, teaching\, research\, and public engagement\,
  that only this particular kind of institution can offer. This should not 
 be considered an argument for building a homogenous silo of education scho
 lars looking to see educational work as somehow encapsulated and disconnec
 ted from other disciplines - far from it. Indeed\, it is argued that the k
 ind of work which society needs education faculty to undertake is in a ver
 y real sense at the borders of educational studies and other disciplinary 
 areas\, and relies on expertise that melds educational scholarship with me
 mbership of other disciplinary communities. \n
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Room GS4
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