Past HES Conferences
'Beyond the Lecture Hall: universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day' (2008)
In September 2008, the Society collaborated with the Faculty of Education and Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge University, to convene a conference on the theme:
'Beyond the Lecture Hall: universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day'.
The event marked the 800th anniversary of the University, founded in 1209.
An international gathering of leading scholars heard 50 papers and the conference was also supported by Cambridge Assessment, celebrating their 150th anniversary, and Cambridge University Press founded in 1584.
Conference proceedings addressed community engagement in general, and specific themes of print, publication and broadcasting, professional education, universities and schools, adult and continuing education. Coverage was national and international, but with Cambridge a frequent point of reference.
A selection of papers is now published online and in print by the Faculty in collaboration with ICE (see flyer). The online text can be accessed and the print edition ordered at:
http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/academicgroups/pedagogy/projects/books/
Photograph: Joyce Goodman, President of HES, with two of the contributing authors to Beyond the Lecture Hall: Gordon Dadswell, University of Melbourne, and Rosemary O'Day, Open University
The History of Education Society (UK) Annual Conference (2009)
December 4-6 2009, Putting Education in its Place, annual conference of the HES (UK), University of Sheffield.
Abstracts of papers may be accessed here.
