Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground
September 8-9, 2012 |
In the twenty-first century, there is an increasing call for higher education to be held accountable for outcomes-based education. What should these outcomes be? How can they be assessed? What are promises and pitfalls ofassessment methods and metrics? What should they be measuring? What is the relationship between these outcomes, curricula, and employable skills? To date, there are no clear answers because little attention has been paid as to how historic environment programs (e.g., historic preservation/heritage conservation) have answered and should answer these questions.
This conference is designed to bring higher education leaders in historic environment programs together from across the globe to present their research, discuss these questions, and begin to offer answers that will produce better historic environment specialists and further define educators’ roles and responsibilities in the greater professional and public arena. The goal of the conference is to share best practices, current research, and the metrics of academic and professional activities in the field that can help to inform higher education institutions and organizations that provide curriculum guidance and pedagogical practices to historic environment programs.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Silvio Mendes Zancheti, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation (CECI) and Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. At UFPE, Dr. Zancheti helped develop a curriculum based on integrated urban heritage conservation — a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to conserving built heritage.
Questions? E-mail Jeremy Wells at jwells@rwu.edu, Conference Organizing Committee Chair.
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Website:
onlinecommunity.rwu.edu/pec |
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Biltmore Hotel |
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Providence, RI |
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| Contact Information |
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jwells@rwu.edu |
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