Exploring the purpose of education for learners in both the university environment and beyond.

About this Event

To answer the question, what is education for, is to prepare you for making decisions about how you approach your lifelong learning and education.

About the event

In this keynote, Naomi will be exploring the different perspectives on the purpose of education before going on to ask who education is for and how we can make choices about our education based on what we believe is education. By asking ourselves these questions and acknowledging what we hope to achieve as we engage with education, we can then make decisions about how we approach our learning in the rest of the Preparing for University events. In gaining a deeper understanding of the purpose of education, we can then go on to consider formal spaces of learning such as university and a lifetime of learning and education ahead.

Please have pen and paper to hand during this session.

About the speaker

Naomi de la Tour is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) at Warwick University. Her work explores the imagination, social justice, change and education. She draws on critical and contemplative pedagogies in her approach to teaching and is grounded in an ethos of collaboration, co-creation and the cultivation of generosity in the classroom. She is also a regular contributor to Digital Pedagogy Lab and works as a writer in schools, festivals and the community.