#TELresearchers & #HEresearchers with Dr Jan McArthur
14:00 - 15:30 (GMT), Tue 30 Jan 2024, online
14:00 - 15:30 (GMT), Tue 30 Jan 2024, online
This is a #HEresearchers session!
Welcome back to the 3rd year of the #TELresearchers/#HEresearchers series. For those of you who are new here, we began this monthly webinar series back in 2022 with mainly focusing on TEL researchers. However, since last year, we have extended our invitation to HE researchers as well. So whilst the official name of our the series is #TELresearchers, for the actual sessions, we use #TELresearchers and #HEresearchers interchanagbly, depends on the speaker.
So to kick us off to a wonderful 2024 is our beloved Dr Jan McArthur, who took over from Prof. Paul Ashwin as the Head of the Educational Research department at Lancaster University. Jan’s research spans across different areas in HE, including social justice and recently she is particularly known for discourses in and around authentic assessment.
Jan is particularly interested in the work of Teodor Adomo!
Oh by the way, Jan was a doctoral student at the very department she is now the boss of! She once told us she had so much fun studying at Lancaster, she has since refused to leave. We can confirm the Ed Res dept at Lancaster is a fun place to study. So what are you waiting for? Go book yourself a front row seat and explore Jan’s researcher story with her!
This main session will run for approx 60mins, with an optional 30mins for discussion and anyone who wants to have a more in-depth discussion with Jan.
Learn more about Jan:
Jan’s research interests span two themes: education and social justice, and the nature of higher education. She is interested in inter-relationships between education and society, and between theory and practice. She has explored different interpretations of critical pedagogy, and particularly the ways in which conceptualisations of knowledge impact upon social justice. Much of her work is informed by critical theory, and she has a special interest in the work of Theodor Adorno. Her recent work has looked at the nature of assessment and feedback the role of failure in learning including the relationship between conceptions of failure and social justice. Jan’s latest book Assessment for Social Justice explores the potential to further social justice within and through HE assessment and draws on the critical theory of Axel Honneth.
Jan’s Lancaster profile page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/people/jan-mcarthur
To connect with Jan:
Twitter: @JanMcArthur
BlueSky: @janmcarthur.bsky.social
Feel free to download and circulate the poster:
This talk is open to all students and staff at Lancaster University and the general public. if you have any questions regarding this talk or issues with booking a place, please contact Puiyin Wong at puiyin.wong@lancaster.ac.uk
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