Welcome to a seminar with Professor Leesa Wheelahan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
She will present a newly article: Analysing micro-credentials in higher education: a Bernsteinian analysis on micro-credentials – a Bernsteinian analysis. The article draws on an analysis of vocational education and the role of theoretical knowledge. The article is published in Journal of Curriculum Studies, 53:2, 212-228, DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2021.1887358
Leesa Wheelahan is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where she holds the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership. Prior to that, she was an associate professor in adult and vocational education at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long career as a researcher in vocational education, where she has developed critiques of competency-based models of curriculum because, she argues, they do not provide students in vocational education with access to the ‘powerful knowledge’ they need to be active citizens, agential workers able to participate in debates and shape the future of their field, and contributors to their community.
Leesa Wheelahan is invited to Umeå university to participate in the international advisory board for the VR-project: Critical thinking, social belonging and democratic participation: Vocational students civic Bildung and the enacted curricula 2023-2026. Project group: Kristina Ledman, Department of Education, Katarina Kärnebro Department of Education and Christina Ottander Department of Science and Mathematics Education
Register for the seminar by sending an e-mail to kristina.ledman@umu.se and please indicate if you will participate at place at Samvetet or via zoom. https://umu.zoom.us/j/8760018473
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/ Kristina Ledman, Katarina Kärnebro and Christina Ottander