University of London academic to conduct interactive seminar at Curtin Sarawak

Miri – 29 November 2013 – Professor Emeritus Ronald Barnett from the Institute of Education, University of London will be conducting an interactive seminar for academic staff of Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak) on 6 December 2013.

Entitled ‘Learning to Be: A Hopeful Idea for an Uncertain World’, the seminar will be held from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm in Prinia 2-101 at the university campus and all Curtin Sarawak academic staff are welcome.

The seminar will explore questions such as ‘What are the challenges that the modern world poses?’, ‘How useful are ‘skills’ as a way of approaching teaching and learning in higher education?’, ‘What other forms of development among students might be worthwhile?’, ‘What values might help us, in thinking about learning today?’ and ‘Can we envisage a new kind of curriculum?’

Professor Barnett, an Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, is a well-known figure on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of universities and higher education. He has published over 200 papers and 21 books, several of which are award-winning and translated into other languages.

His books include ‘The Idea of Higher Education; Higher Education: A Critical Business’; ‘Realising the University in an Age of Supercomplexity’; ‘Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University’; and ‘A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty’. His most recent book entitled ‘Imagining the University’ was published in January 2013.

For more details on the seminar, contact Dean of Teaching and Learning Associate Professor Dr. Beena Giridharan at 085-443 847 or e-mail to beena@curtin.edu.my.

Professor Emeritus Ronald Barnett of the Institute of Education, University of London.