UNDERSTANDING THE WIDER BENEFITS OF LEARNING
http://www.learningbenefits.net/index.htm
A Conference to Consider Findings and Methods
15-16 September 2004, Westminster, London
Learning and the Family
PLENARY: Jacque Eccles (University of Michigan): Family influences on
children's achievement
DISCUSSANT: Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)
Workshops:
Parental education and parenting
Leon Feinstein and Graham Hobbs (WBL)
Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL)
Intergenerational transmission of educational achievement
Mary Londra and Ricardo Sabates (WBL)
Amanda Sacker (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL) & Ingrid
Schoon (City University)
Transmission of ability in Britain & the USA
Kate Duckworth (WBL)
Heather Joshi (Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Integrating methods
PLENARY: Glen Elder (University of North Carolina): Life course perspective
and learning
DISCUSSANT: John Vorhaus (NRDC)
Workshops with NRDC:
Including the socially excluded: multiple methods in analysis of civic
participation
John Preston (WBL) and Jane Hurry (NRDC) will present related work on
delinquency
Mixed methods in practice: people with low skills
(1) workplace learning
Edmund Waite & Liam Aspin (NRDC)
(2) learning, health and well being
Cathie Hammond (WBL)
Multiple approaches in evaluating adult learning
Greg Brooks (NRDC), John Bynner (WBL) and Samantha Parsons (NRDC)
Policy perspectives
John Elliott and colleagues (Department for Education & Skills)
Tom Schuller (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD)
DAY 2
Health & Well-being
PLENARY: John Mirowsky & Catherine Ross (University of Texas at Austin):
Education, learned effectiveness and health
DISCUSSANT: Mel Bartley (UCL)
Workshops:
Adult well-being and poor school attainment
Leon Feinstein (WBL)
Chris Bonell (SSRU) will also be presenting related work on teenage
pregnancy
Education and the take-up of health services
Ricardo Sabates (WBL)
Dr Lai Fong Chui (University of Leeds)
Models of links between education and health
Cathie Hammond (WBL)
Tarani Chandola (UCL
Social Capital, Community & Social Cohesion
PLENARY: Jim Côté (University of Western Ontario): Identity capital, social
capital, and the wider benefits of learning: generating resources
facilitative of social cohesion
DISCUSSANT: John Field (Stirling University)
Workshops:
Adult learning, civic participation and attitude change
John Bynner and Leon Feinstein (WBL)
Nick Emler (University of Surrey)
Education and crime
Ricardo Sabates (WBL)
Kirstine Hansen (CLS)
Active citizenship
John Preston (WBL)
John Annette (Birkbeck College)
New directions for wider benefits
Leon Feinstein (WBL)
Andrew Morris (National Education and Research Forum)
John Vorhaus (NRDC)
With input from the DfES
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