Education reform: Where next?
A major public policy forum discussing transatlantic education reform: The triumphs, the failures and the lessons to be learned
Wednesday November 10
5:30 - 7:00pm
OISE, 5-150
This public policy forum, a collaboration between Ben Levin, OISE professor, department of Theory and Policy Studies and Geoff Whitty, Director of the Institute of Education at the University of London, will host a lively and controversial panel discussion of education policy in Canada and the United Kingdom and give the audience an opportunity to engage with leading academics and practitioners from Canada and the United Kingdom.
Dean Julia O'Sullivan will chair the panel discussion.
The featured panelists include:
Professor Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, University of London
Professor Carol Campbell, Stanford University, California
Mary Jean Gallagher, Chief Student Achievement Officer of Ontario
Professor Ben Levin, OISE and former Deputy Minister of Education, Ontario
Entry is free. To register email c.price@ioe.ac.uk
Policy borrowing and policy tourism: Why does it happen and what good does it do?
A major public lecture by professor Geoff Whitty, director, Institute of Education, University of London
Thursday November 11
11:00am - 12:30pm
OISE, Dean's Boardroom, 12-199
Professor Geoff Whitty, Director of the Institute of Education at the University of London will deliver a public lecture on the practice of sharing education policy between the United Kingdom and North America. Chaired by OISE professor and former Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario, Ben Levin, the lecture will address the following questions:
- Which education reforms have crossed the Atlantic? Did they succeed? Did they fail?
- Why and how do countries borrow policy?
Professor Whitty, a historian and sociologist by training, is one of the country's leading analysts of education policy. He has directed ESRC-funded research projects on the impact of education policies, such as the assisted places scheme, city technology colleges, education action zones, and changes in initial teacher education. His recent research includes a study of school councils for the Department for Children, Schools and Families and a series of projects on school-university links for the Sutton Trust. Among his books are Making Sense of Education Policy (2002) and Education and the Middle Class (2003), which won the Society for Educational Studies book prize in 2004. He recently became the first recipient of the Lady Plowden Memorial Medal for outstanding services to education.
Entry is free. To register email c.price@ioe.ac.uk