Professor Keri Facer

Summary

• Educational Futures
• Digital Cultures
• Social Justice
• University Public/Civic/Community Engagement
• Connected Communities

Biography

Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education. She works on rethinking the relationship between formal educational institutions and wider society, in particular in relation to environmental, social and technological disruption.

Her personal blog, with a full list of previous projects, publications and talks is available here http://kerifacer.wordpress.com/

From 2002-2008 Keri was Research Director at Futurelab where she brought together researchers, educators, digital artists, computer scientists and young people to create prototypes of new approaches to education. She has led large scale curriculum design programmes and collaborated with organisations including the BBC, RSA, Baltic Arts Centre, Becta, TDA, Electronic Arts and Microsoft as well as with Local Authorities across the UK. From 2007-2009 she led the Beyond Current Horizons strategic foresight programme for the Department for Children, Schools and Families. This programme brought together researchers from arts, humanities, sciences, engineering and social sciences to examine the challenges that education and society may be facing over the coming century. Her most recent publication is Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change, written while Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University from 2008-2012. She is now an AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities Programme, working in particular on researching and imagining the future of the university. 

Teaching

I am particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of:

• educational futures
• the relationship between economic, social, technological and environmental change and education
• university public/community/civic engagement
• student activism and new university models
• informal learning
• the relationship between digital technologies and educational change

Keywords

• Educational Futures
• Digital Cultures
• Social Justice
• Public Engagement
• Connected Communities

Skills

• Member: BAFTA
• RSA
• Association of Professional Futurists

Memberships

Organisations

Graduate School of Education

Thematic groups

• Learning Lives

Research Centres

• Centre for Research on Globalisation, Education and Societies (CR-GES)
• Centre for Classroom Research (CfCR)

Recent publications

• Facer, K & Thomas, L 2012, ‘Towards an Area-Based Curriculum? Creating Space for the City in Schools’. International Journal of Educational Research., pp. 1-10
• Facer, K & Manchester, H 2012, ‘Mapping Learning Lives’. BBC
• Facer, K, Thorpe, J & Shaw, L 2012, ‘Co-operative Education and Schools: an old idea for new times?’. Power and Education , vol 4., pp. 327-341
• Facer, K 2012, ‘After the moral panic? Reframing the debate about child safety online’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol 33., pp. 397-413
• Facer, K 2012, ‘Taking the 21st Century Seriously: young people, education and socio-technical futures’. Oxford Review of Education, vol 38., pp. 97 - 113
• Facer, K 2011, ‘Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change’. Routledge
• Facer, K & Richard, S 2010, ‘The next 25 years? future scenarios and future directions for education and technology’. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, vol 26., pp. 74 - 93
• Benford, S, Rowland, D, Flintham, M, Drozd, A, Hull, R, Reid, J, Morrison, J & Facer, K 2005, ‘Life on the edge: supporting collaboration in location-based experiences’. in: CHI 2005, 2-7 April, Portland, Oregon.
• Kent, N & Facer, K 2004, ‘Different worlds? Children's home and school computer use’. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL), vol 20 (6)., pp. 440 - 455
• Williamson, B & Facer, K 2004, ‘More than "just a game": the implications for schools of children's computer games communities’. Education, Communication and Information, vol 4/2-3., pp. 253 - 268

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Networks & contacts

• Previous funders
• collaborators and partners have included: the RSA
• the BBC
• Microsoft
• Electronic Arts
• AHRC
• ESRC
• TDA
• Becta
• QCA
• NESTA
• the Co-operative College
• Baltic Arts Centre