PRACTICAL LEARNING: achieving excellence in the human services January 22, 2008

8th International PEPE Conference

Practical Experiences in Professional Education (PEPE) is an international association of human service professionals aiming to facilitate the exchange of ideas, research, and practices about learning for professional practice.

The conference will bring together internationally acclaimed leaders in the fields of learning for practice and the creation of communities for learning across disciplines. It will showcase and strengthen best practice and research in relation to learning for practice in the human services.

The conference will be of interest to academics, trainers, human resources staff and all those involved in the learning of professionals in health, education, criminal justice and social services.

Keynote speakers include:

Professor Etienne Wenger | Professor Sally Glen | Professor Mark Doel | Myra Pearson

Conference themes:

• learning for practice across the professions

• involving people who use human services

• communities of practice and the learning organisation

• integration of learning and practice

Abstracts should be submitted by August 3rd 2007 and acceptance will be confirmed by August 24th 2007.

Official Website: http://www.sieswe.org/pepe2008