Dear UKPN,
The Scottish Arctic Network (ScAN) would like to invite you to our inaugural webinar series, where we will showcase the work of Scotland-based Arctic researchers. The webinar is interdisciplinary and will cover a range of physical and social issues pertinent to the Arctic. Attached is a flyer with dates and times for upcoming webinars.
Details for the first webinar are as follows (abstract below):
- Date: Wednesday 6th September
- Time: 12:00-13:00 BST
- Presenter: Dr Paul Adams (University of Strathclyde)
- Title: New Northern Pedagogies: Conversations across The Arctic
- Booking Link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/scottish-arctic-network-scan/webinar-new-northern-pedagogies-conversations-across-the-arctic/e-dgmvop
Registration for future webinars is also open here and more information on ScAN and its activities is available on our website. We welcome attendees from across the globe and are eager to bring together an international audience to engage with this webinar series.
Best wishes,
Will
Abstract
The Scottish Government (SG) 2019 paper Arctic Connections: Scotland’s Arctic Policy Framework identifies the close links between Scotland and the Arctic that have existed for centuries. The ‘…lasting impact on our cultural, economic and social fabric’ (p. 3) is noted therein as relevant across the country. Within this framework, the Scottish Government’s Arctic Connections fund allocated circa £8000 to a group of researchers from the Universities of Strathclyde, Highlands and Islands, and Aberdeen for an inaugural seminar wherein teacher educators from nine Scottish HEIs met to debate the role, place, and form for Arctic Pedagogy on Scottish teacher education under the auspices of The New Northern Pedagogies Group (NNPG).
In this presentation, we outline three things, the first two very briefly. First, Scottish educational framing and connections to the Arctic. Second, a definition for ‘pedagogy’ (‘Being in and acting on the world, with and for others’) that challenges traditional Anglophonic interpretation. Finally, I shall then outline connections the New Northern Pedagogies Group made to interpretations of Arctic Pedagogy, as a mechanism to disrupt or rupture hitherto Initial Teacher Education approaches along with some of the successes from the inaugural NNPG event.
Dr William D. Harcourt
Interdisciplinary Fellow
Room 111, St Mary’s Building
Interdisciplinary Centre for Data & AI
University of Aberdeen
Twitter: @will_harcourt
Website: www.williamharcourt.co.uk
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