Date: Wednesday 03 May 2023
Time: 09:30 - 17:30
Education Day is open to everyone involved in the educational experience of St George’s students, including students themselves.
There is still time to register for Education Day 2022/23!
About Education Day
Education Day is an annual event which takes place at St George’s, University of London. It is open to everyone involved in the educational experience of St George’s.
Education Day this year will have a focus on community, connection and learning together. The day will provide a look at the education dimensions of the new 2030 university strategy. We will ask what this strategy means for you and what an excellent education experience at St George’s really looks like and will continue to explore these questions through the sharing of ideas, practice and challenges.
Event programme
Time
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Content
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| 9:30am to 10am |
Registration and tea/coffee. |
| 10am to 11:15am |
Opening plenary
Introduction to the day from Professor Jane Saffell, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) followed by our keynote address from Dr Karen Gravett of the Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey.
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| 11:15am to 11:30am |
Break with refreshments. |
| 11:30am to 1:00pm |
Parallel Sessions: Choose from two sessions sharing examples of innovative practice acrossour educational community (see full programme for full details)
- Care and authenticity in assessment and feedback
- Collaboration and community: student-centredlearning and teaching
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| 1:00pm to 1:45pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:45pm to 3pm |
St George’s Strategic Vision 2030: Fostering a caring & connected community
Workshop session led by Jane Saffell and Rosie MacLachlan. In this interactive session, we will reflect on the university’s new Strategic Vision 2030 for education and student experience, and consider ways to weave care, connection, and community through it. How can we build on our existing areas of strength and where do we need to change?
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| 3pm to 3:15pm |
Break with refreshments. |
| 3:15pm to 4:30pm |
Belonging and mattering at St George’s
Our closing session will feature two case studies of educational practice at St George’s which respond to our themes of the day:
Katie Pavoni and Caroline Neveu, ‘Striving to be a village in a city’ and
Claire Spiller, Nicola Buxton and Nicoletta Fossati, ‘Supporting the transitionto clinical learning: tacit knowledge, simulation and reflection’.
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| 4:30pm to 6pm |
Reception and celebration of Educational Excellence Awards, Vice-Chancellor’s Prizes, National Teaching Fellowships and SHINE Fellowships.
Grab a refreshment and please take a seat for the Awards at 4:45pm.
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Keynote speaker: Dr Karen Gravett, University of Surrey
Care and connection as situated practice
Our recent times have unsettled the way we think about student learning. With the disruption to modes of delivery, as a result of Covid-19, or following increased concerns about students’ wellbeing and engagement, educators have focused upon questions relating to how to foster a caring community, and how to develop students’ sense of belonging. In this presentation, Karen will share some of her recent research examining connection, belonging and mattering, enabling participants to think about educational experiences in new ways. She will argue for the value of an approach to teaching that notices the day-to-day things, practices and spaces of students’ learning, and will think about how belonging plays out in the ‘micro moments’ of learning and teaching, and how relational pedagogies may be key to fostering engagement and connection within these moments.
Dr Karen Gravett is Senior Lecturer at the Surrey Institute of Education at the University of Surrey, UK, where her research focuses on understanding learning and teaching in higher education, and explores the areas of student engagement, belonging, and relational pedagogies. Karen’s work is published in leading journals including Studies in Higher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Higher Education, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Her latest books are: Gravett, K. (due 2023) Relational Pedagogies: Connections and Mattering in Higher Education, and Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant Discourses in Higher Education.
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