News and Events
In the course of the last year members of the ProLearn group have been active in presenting papers from the project at international conferences. These include the annual conference of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the World Congress of the International Sociology Association (ISA), and the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER). Karen Jensen also served as a discussant for the symposium "Early Career Learning in Professional Workplace" at the EARLI Conference 2005, when Michael Eraut`s research team presented the final results from the British research project "Learning in Nursing, Engineering and Accountancy" (LiNEA). (More information about this related project can be found here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/1-4-25-9.html
May 2007: New project to follow up on themes and results from ProLearn
A new research project, Learning Trajectories in Knowledge Economies (LIKE), will start up in the autumn term 2007. LIKE is funded by The Research Council of Norway and designed to follow up on themes and results from ProLearn. The project will be lead by Karen Jensen and Monika Nerland, and will be carried out in collaboration with Centre for the Studies of Professions at Oslo University College. More information will follow.
March 2007
We are happy to announce that a special issue of the journal Knowledge, Work and Society now is available; comprising papers based on the keynote lectures presented to the ProLearn Conference in 2004. This issue on professional learning (vol. 4 no. 3) is edited by Karen Jensen and Leif Lahn, and includes articles by Karin Knorr Cetina, Michael Eraut, James Paul Gee, and the two editors. Copies may be ordered from the journal’s website
28 September 2006
Members of the Prolearn team meet the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs in the Norwegian Parliament to give evidence on issues related to the theme of continuous learning among teachers.
20 July 2005
“Education and the Question of Knowledge”: An informal seminar at The London Knowledge Laboratory chaired by David Guile and Michael Young. Karen Jensen contributes with a lecture on "The binding role of knowledge".
25.-27. November 2004 :
ProLearn Conference
An international research conference highlighting the themes of the ProLearn project was held at the University of Oslo , Institute of Educational Research , in November 2004. Four invited keynote speakers gave stimulating contributions to the understanding of professional learning:
- Professor Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Konstanz : Postsocial knowledge society
- Professor Michael Eraut, University of Sussex : Professional learning in a comparative perspective
- Professor Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki : Newer trends in sociocultural learning theory
- Professor James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin-Madison: New literacies and professional expertise
In addition more than 40 papers were discussed in thematic sessions. A list of literature relevant to the keynote lectures is provided here (pdf 15Kb). More information about the conference can
be found at this webpage: http://www.pfi.uio.no/konferanse/prof_learning/index.html
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