[Maths-Education] Conference Invitation - Learning about Risk: The challenge for teachers - Wellcome Trust, London, 4 June 2010

[Phillip Kent]

All are invited to attend:

LEARNING ABOUT RISK: THE CHALLENGE FOR TEACHERS
4th June 2010, Wellcome Trust, London

* David Nutt (Imperial College): 'The risky business of drug harm
assessments: lessons for everyone'

* Robin Millar (York University): 'Risk and school science:
Possibilities and challenges'

* Dave Pratt, Ralph Levinson et al. (Institute of Education, London):
'Towards a Pedagogy of Risk' (results from a Wellcome Trust-funded
project, Promoting Teachers' Understanding of Risk in Socio-scientific
Issues)

Developments in science and technology have the potential to greatly
enhance human well-being but this potential is often tempered with
public scepticism and ambivalence as well as a need to engage with the
reporting of risk in the media. Risk has become increasingly emphasised
in school curricula: in Science, Mathematics, Citizenship and PSHE. This
day conference will debate the challenges of teaching and learning about
risk with leading players in policy and education.

The conference will be held at The Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BE, on Friday 4th June 2010; starting with registration and
coffee at 10.30 and finishing at 16.30. There is no fee for
participation.

For further information and registration:
https://www.wellcometrustevents.org/learningaboutrisk
or email Verena Collins-Magee, v.collins-magee at wellcome.ac.uk .
We appreciate registration as soon as possible, and at latest by 1st June
2010. Please forward this announcement to interested colleagues, email
lists, websites, etc.

A poster is available to download: www.RISKatIOE.org/Conference-poster-London-4June.pdf 

The conference is jointly organised by the Wellcome Trust and the
Institute of Education research project 'Promoting Teachers'
Understanding of Risk in Socio-Scientific Issues', www.RISKatIOE.org .



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Dr Phillip Kent
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS
p.kent at ioe.ac.uk
tel 020 7763 2156   mobile 07950 952034
www.RISKatIOE.org , www.phillipkent.net
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Dr Phillip Kent, London, UK
mathematics  education  technology  research
phillip.kent at gmail.com  mobile: 07950 952034
www.phillipkent.net
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"An impossible probability is preferable to an improbable possibility"