Hotseat – 2.00pm – 5.00pm (GMT) Tuesday 7 November 2006

Professor Charles Desforges

Creating deep learning: what is deep learning and what conditions are required?

Professor Charles Desforges
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

 

  1. Deep learning is a good thing!  Or is it?  
  2. What does it look like?  
  3. Can anybody do it?  
  4. How do you get it?  
  5. Can you afford it?  
  6. What will you do without it?  

These are some of the questions to be aired and, of course, considered in depth, in these exchanges. Join me online from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm on Tuesday 7 November 2006 to discuss these questions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Charles Desforges is an emeritus professor in the University of Exeter.  He served on the National Education Research Forum (NERF) which worked to shape national strategy for educational research, and he chaired the NERF research priorities group.  He is also a research adviser to various government bodies here and overseas. Other current work involves supporting the professional development of head teachers and promoting teacher research on lesson development. From 1998 to 2002 Charles was the Director of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council, the largest coordinated programme of social research ever mounted in the UK. Prior to that, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the University of Exeter and also the Director of the School of Education.

Earlier in his working life he taught school science for ten years (1963-1973).  Since then he has been a university researcher focusing on classroom learning.

He has published extensively in the field of teaching and learning, and was editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology for five years.  Recent publications include ‘Numeracy and Beyond’ (2000) (with Martin Hughes), ‘Teaching and Learning’ (2002) (with Richard Fox), and a report of a research review conducted for the DfES entitled ‘The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement’.  This is available on the DfES website as Research Report No. 433 (2003).   He is currently working on a research project on leadership in small schools and on a review of research literature on children with moderate learning difficulties in KS 3 and 4.

Professor Desforges was awarded an OBE in the 2004 New Years Honours List for Services to Education.

 

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