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Wednesday 16 January 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Case study-based development and research project to address deliberate self-harm in adolescence and youth
Sue Morris
12.30-13.30, Room 408, School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
Wednesday 30 January 2008
Languages, Discourses & Society Academic Group
Wonder and danger: knowledge transfer and indigenous girls' sexual health education
Deborah L Begoray, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
This presentation focuses on community-based, knowledge translation processes that occurred in research on adolescent girls' sexual health education in an Indigenous setting. Even though adolescent populations in general need developmentally and socially appropriate educational approaches, Aboriginal populations need more specialized education which takes into account their cultural realities. A promising approach is through community-based, knowledge translation processes based on principles of contextuality, collaboration, reciprocity, relationality, and reflexivity. Effective communication or 'health literacy' is paramount to the establishment of these principles. Examples and issues arising from the research will also be discussed.
15.30 � 17.00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
How pupils with SEBD perceive their mainstream schools
Frances Toynbee
12.30-13.30, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Centre for Research on Organisations and Pedagogy (CROP) launch
The formal launch for the Centre for Research on Organisations and Pedagogy (CROP) will take place on Tuesday 19th February in room 524 of the School of Education (Edgbaston Campus) starting at 2.00 pm.
Please email Bev Burke ( b.a.burke@bham.ac.uk ) if you wish to attend.
14.00, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston
Everyone welcome.
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Languages, Discourses & Society Academic Group
"Changing classroom practice: the problem of interactional genres"
Dr Adam Lefstein, University of London
15.30 � 17.00, Room 423B, School of Education, Edgbaston
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
Dangerous Ideas
Disability, music and identity
Michael Watts, University of Cambridge
17.00- 18.15, Room 524 , School of Education, Edgbaston
Dangerous Ideas- semi-formal seminar series with invited external speaker; all academics and research students welcome
Wednesday 27 February 2008
5th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference
Theme: The Scholarship of Teaching
Keynote Speaker: Professor Mick Healey. Mick is Professor of Geography at the University of Gloucester and in recent years has also developed an interest in the learning and teaching of geography in higher education, which is now his main research area. (Click here to find out more about Mick.)
Sub-themes include: Learner Independence, Enquiry-based Learning, Students as Researchers and the Teaching/Research Interface. If you would like to present at the conference, please see the abstract submission form. (As a guide, you can see last year's abstracts here.)
In addition, there will be an exhibition area in the Education building where a variety of exhibitors from across the University will provide information about services that support learning and teaching.
If you would like to present at the conference, please see http://www.hr.bham.ac.uk/development/landt/ltconference.shtml, or contact Patricia Nick (p.a.nick@bham.ac.uk).
Venue: School of Education Building
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Languages, Discourses & Society Academic Group
�On the metaphor of loss, identity and language maintenance�
David Block, University of London
15.30 � 17.00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information contact Lily Illic (l.illic@bham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Consultation is all well and good, but what if people talk rubbish
Graeme Douglas
12.30-13.30, Room 224 , School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) � all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal � please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
For further information contact Dee Fellows (d.r.fellows@bham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
Dangerous Ideas
Playful and digital identities in the zones of inclusion, disability and special needs
Pat Kane [Glasgow]
17.00- 18.15, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston
Dangerous Ideas- semi-formal seminar series with invited external speaker; all academics and research students welcome
For further information contact Dee Fellows (d.r.fellows@bham.ac.uk)
Monday 17 March 2008
Histories in Education and Childhood (DOMUS)
Conversations between educators and architects in the design of post-war education
Speaker: Dr Cathy Burke, University of Leeds
17.00- 18.30, Room 423B, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information contact Ruth Watts (r.e.watts@bham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 8 April- Thursday 10 April 2008
Research Seminar
Multilingualism, discourse and ethnography
The last two decades have seen a growing interest, internationally, in multilingualism, multilingual literacy, bilingualism in education and in the role of discourse in the construction of asymmetries of power between linguistic groups in multilingual societies. This is largely due to the significant linguistic, cultural and demographic changes ushered in by globalisation and international migration and to the major changes that are now taking place in the political, cultural and linguistic landscape of Europe as a result of the accession of new nations to the European Union. The last two decades have also seen the emergence of a distinct new strand of critical, interpretive research on multilingualism which combines the analysis of discourse and of literacy practices with ethnography.
A good deal of empirical work has been conducted in educational sites with children and/or with adults � in bilingual education programmes, in complementary schools, in adult education centres, in colleges and universities and in mainstream primary and secondary schools in multilingual settings. Whilst the goals of this critical, interpretive research have been broadly similar, that is to identify ways of linking the close study of the interactional order with an analysis of the wider social and symbolic order, researchers have employed diverse approaches in investigating the particularities of the discourse practices in the multilingual sites with which they are concerned.
The main objectives of this seminar will therefore be:
To bring together a group of 25-30 scholars working within this critical, interpretive strand of research with a view to generating new thinking about methodological issues.
To provide the basis of a publication focusing on these methodological issues (either as a special issue of a journal or as a book)
To serve as a formal launch of the newly constituted MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism at Birmingham.
The Research Seminar will focus on the following broad themes:
Links between theory and method (e.g. Bourdieu and Socio/Linguistic Ethnography; sociolinguistic scales; revisiting the notion of �communities of practice� and spatialisation of multilingual practices)
The development of and links between critical, analytic lenses on multilingualism (e.g. Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodal/Semiotic Analysis, Narrative Analysis, New Literacy Studies, Systemic Functional Analysis)
Issues in Socio/Linguistic Ethnography in multilingual settings (e.g. Doing multi-site ethnography; researcher-researched relations; language use during fieldwork in multilingual settings; combining ethnography with discourse analysis; researching multi-modal and textual practices in multilingual settings).
Speakers
Monica Heller (University of Toronto) and Alexandra Jaffe (University of California at Long Beach).
MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, School of Education
Local organisers: Marilyn Martin-Jones and Sheena Gardner, University of Birmingham, on behalf of the members of MOSAIC.
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
How pupils with SEBD perceive their mainstream schools
Presenter: Frances Toynbee
12.30-1.30, Room 224 , School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome.
Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
For further information contact Dee Fellows (d.r.fellows@bham.ac.uk)
Centre for Research on Organisations and Pedagogy
Practice-developing research
Dr. Seth Chaiklin (University of Bath)
The idea of "practice-developing research" was formed in response to the well-known phenomenon that research can produce good ideas that subsequently have difficultly getting into practice. Rather than seeking new ways to apply theory, the idea is to change practice to allow theory to be there. This talk explains an approach grounded in cultural-historical psychology and theory of activity.
15.30, Room G3 , School of Education, Edgbaston
Please email Bev Burke (b.a.burke@bham.ac.uk) to confirm your attendance
Thursday 8th May 2008
The Birmingham Conference - 2008
The Birmingham Conference is the annual educational event for health care professionals. Hosted by the West Midlands Workforce Deanery and the Centre for Research in Medical and Dental Education, University of Birmingham, the 2008 event will be held at the Lakeside Centre at Aston University in Birmingham. It is kindly sponsored in full by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.
The one-day conference will bring together people working across the health care professions to debate current issues and share good practice. This year�s themes are Education, Professionalism and Outcomes with keynote speakers, interactive workshops and short presentations of current research. A �soap-box� session will give delegates the opportunity to air burning issues and there will be opportunities to network with fellow professionals at one of the biggest events run by a deanery in the UK.
We want to hear from you if you would like to be actively involved in the conference. It is an opportunity to showcase excellent work taking place across the West Midlands and further afield and we welcome presentations which describe new ideas, innovative practice, evaluation and research. There are opportunities to run a workshop (1 hour, 1.5 hours or 2 hours) or make a short presentation of your work (10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions). Please complete the Expression of Interest form. Deadline: 25 January 2008.
To secure your place at the conference, complete the Registration form.
There is no fee this year for delegates. Lunch, teas and coffees will be provided. Book early as places are limited.
We look forward to welcoming you there.
Monday 12 May 2008
Professional Learning and Pedagogy Seminar
Co-operative Learning and Achievement: What Makes Teamwork Work?
Professor Nancy Madden (University of York)
Nancy Madden is President and co-founder of the American Success for All Foundation which develops, researches, and disseminates educational programs for high poverty schools. She is also a professor in the Centre for Research and Reform in Education at John Hopkins University. Since 2007 she has been a Professor in the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York.
15.00 - 16.30, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston
Please email Bev Burke (b.a.burke@bham.ac.uk) to confirm your attendance. Refreshments will follow the seminars at 16.30
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Deaf children's communication in the Cochlear Implant era - still a controversial topic
Linda Watson
12.30-13.30, Room 224 , School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
Monday 19 May 2008
Histories in Education and Childhood (DOMUS)
Voice and image in the historical representation of schooling: an exploration of some cases of 'illustrative evidence'
Dr Deidre Raferty (University of Dublin)
17.30-18.30, Room 423b, School of Education, Edgbaston
All welcome
Friday 23 May 2008
Memorial service for the victims of the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China.
The service will be held from 13.00 - 13.30 on the lawn outside the main library, unless it is raining, in which case it will move to under the arches by the Law School, Chancellor's Court.
The multi-faith service will be conducted by the University Chaplaincy and we are hoping to have representation from the Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu religions, who will read a passage from their respective scriptures. There will also be a brief address in Mandarin from the Chinese Catholic priest and then a 3-minute silence will be observed in memory of the victims.
Everyone welcome.
Tuesday 27 May 2008
As part of the final year work of the Performing and Visual Arts Degree is please to present a free concert
The legendary Free Jazz saxophonist Paul Dunmall will be performing in duo and trio with Bruce Coates - saxophone and Mike Hurley - piano
19:30 in SOVAC main Art Studio (B29 6LQ)
Wednesday 28 May 2008
As part of the final year work of the Performing and Visual Arts Degree is please to present two free concerts
Performing and Visual Arts final year students will perform two neglected classics of Minimalism
Jon Gibson - Thirties
Gibson is probably better known as saxophonist and flautist in Philip Glass's Ensemble but he has always had a parallel career as a composer in his own right. Thirties rarely performed since its premier at the ICES Festival 1972 at London's Roundhouse, now recently reopened.
Terry Riley - Olsen III
Riley, one of the big four composers of Minimalism alongside Philip Glass, Steve Reich and La Monte Young is most famous for his In C, a work for any combination of instruments and performers making use of a modular rhythmic structure that performers move through at their own pace against a solid pulse. Olsen III dating form 1966 works in a similar way but incorporates text and, in common with the Gibson piece, totally regular 'straight' quavers run throughout the piece. It's first performance by Swedish High school students in 1967 provoked polarized reactions from the ecstatic to the furious.
Not quite a 1968 festival but both pieces are imbued with the spirit of that time. The concert will last approximately an hour.
19.00 in SOVAC main Art Studio (B29 6LQ)
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
The language and practice of professionals working with children with visual impairment in mobility and independence
Sue Pavey
12.30-13.30, Room 224 , School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch!
Thursday 3rd July and Friday 4th July 2008
University of Birmingham
The Second National Meeting and Study Days for Tutors of Educational Psychology Programmes in the United Kingdom
This is the second annual event to be held for programme directors and tutors on the sixteen programmes that run throughout the United Kingdom. The study days will build upon the work undertaken last year in Southampton relating to supervision, pedagogic approaches (PBL and EBL), using WebCT and developing shared resources.
There will also be time to discuss pragmatic issues concerned with running the new programmes. Finally longer-term, strategic matters will be covered including proposals to consider future training linked to other programmes such as clinical psychology.
The study days will start at 10.00 on Thursday 3rd July and will run until 15.00 on Friday 4th July. The cost is �100 and includes all meals and coffees and overnight accommodation. Other more flexible arrangements are available.
To secure your place at the conference, complete the registration form.
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Echoes: Creating a multimodal virtual learning environment to enable social interaction for typically developing children and children with Asperger Syndrome
Karen Guldberg
12.30 - 13.30, Room tbc, School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch! (but no PowerPoint)
Thursday 25 September 2008
ACER
Stephen Shore
17:00 - 18:30, Conference Room, G39, School of Education, Edgbaston
Entry fee: £5 at the door
Free entry to parents/carers, individuals with autism or Asperger syndrome, students
Wednesday 8 October 2008
The Priestley Lecture
This is the 60th Anniversary of Educational Review and we are using this jubilee to take the opportunity to combine our Annual Lecture with the School's Priestley Lecture. Sir Raymond Priestley, the University's Vice-Chancellor at the inception of Educational Review, took a special interest in education and wrote the foreword in the journal's first issue.
2.00pm: Book Launch, Publisher Stands and Refreshments
Does Education Equalise Life Chances?
Professor Stephen Gorard, University of Birmingham.
Professor Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education Research at the University of Birmingham. His research promoting equity within education systems lifelong appears regularly in the media. He acts as consultant or adviser to a number of national and international bodies. His books include Overcoming the Barriers to Higher Education (2007), Adult Learning in the Digital Age (2006), and Schools Markets and Choice Policies (2003). He has written widely on the quality and relevance of education research in general.
One of the reasons for universal, free, compulsory initial education in developed countries is to reduce the links between family background (resources), educational attainment, and later life chances (occupation and income). One of the main reasons for post-compulsory educational initiatives, from 14-19 reform to widening access to higher education to third-age provision, is similarly to increase equity in the system, so reducing the link between origin and opportunity. However, a more recent focus, in the UK and elsewhere, on purported standards of attainment and an emphasis on qualification in education has led to less attention to this key principle. In addition, much recent work in this area has been conducted by agents of change rather than evaluators, and has not been of the quality that would help us sort out whether education does or does not equalise life chances. Drawing on a wide range of lifelong education projects and analysis conducted over the past ten years, and based on a model of equity derived from the views of learners themselves, the presentation suggests that somewhere along the way from 1944, state-funded education has lost sight of its major equitable purpose. At what cost?
3.00pm: Priestley Lecture, School of Education
4.00pm: Canapés and Publisher Stands
Educational Review Guest Lecture
The Politics of Compassion: schools' struggle to maintain moral integrity in the face of national hostility to the non-citizen
Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of CambridgeFellow of Jesus College, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Founder of the Research Consortium the Education of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children with the GTC, NUT and Refugee Council.
Refugees are outcasts and outlaws of a novel kind: the products of globalization. Refugees commonly have just one remaining identity - that of being stateless and status-less. They represent the ultimate "other in our midst". In a culture which celebrates performance, in a political climate which promotes Britishness, in an economic climate that has little space for compassion, those who flee from danger to seek sanctuary in the UK may remain in danger. The humanism of our teachers and the ethos of our school system in helping the children of asylum seekers and refugees are tested by theostracizing and criminalizing of the non-citizen by the state. This lecture explores the politics of compassion and belonging �compassionate conservatism, New Labour patriotism and the struggles of teachers to sustain social integration against the most difficult of odds.
Respondent: Dr Jo Boyden, University of Oxford
Jo Boyden is director of the Young Lives Project, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Vietnam, India, Ethiopia and Peru, housed within the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Trained as a social anthropologist, for many years she was a social development consultant to a broad range of development and humanitarian relief agencies, including UNICEF, Save the Children, OXFAM and UNESCO. From 1999-2005, she conducted research on children's and adolescents' experiences of armed conflict and forced migration at Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre.
16.45, Conference Room, School of Education
Followed by Wine, Drinks and Canapé reception 18.30 - 19.30
To book your ticket or for further information contact:s.v.bejai@bham.ac.uk or telephone 0121 414 4844
Confirmation of attendance is required.
Friday 10 October 2008
Languages, Discourses & Society Research Seminar
Investigating multilingualism in complementary schools in four communities
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese, School of Education, University of Birmingham
This presentation reports on an ESRC project which investigated the multilingual practices and identity performances of young people and their teachers in complementary schools in four of Britain’s communities. It uses a linguistic ethnographic approach to develop four interlocking case studies focusing on Bengali schools in Birmingham, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) schools in Manchester, Gujarati schools in Leicester and Turkish schools in London.
In this seminar paper we will discuss the main findings of the project, illustrating through interactional data, the complex and sophisticated linguistic resources young people bring to identity performance. What we see in these eight schools is frequently at the interstices of two ideological positions: one characterized by heteroglossic, flexible linguistic production which indexes multicultural cosmopolitanism, the other rooted in linguistic affiliation to ‘national identity’ and ‘cultural heritage’. These positions are not always oppositional, and often co-exist in dynamic equilibrium. There is almost always a sense of ambiguity, or at the very least a sense of students and teachers (and for that matter parents, families and friends) investing in language as authentic heritage at the same time as re-making and reinventing it for their transnational setting. Our debate lies at the interstices of nation, heritage, global movement, and new communication. We are challenged to look beyond the relations of power we have traditionally viewed, to a more complex world where myriad categories, boundaries, and values are constructed and reinforced at the same time as, and often in the same space as, others are torn down. Here we see multilingual young people, and their linguistic practices, at a particular moment in time and space, as complementary schools emerge as economies where linguistic resources may be bought, sold, bartered, haggled over, and exchanged.
14.15 - 15.30, Room 408, School of Education, Edgbaston
All are welcome.
Professional Learning and Pedagogy
Open Seminar
The Future of Science Education
Professor John Holman
Professor John Holman is currently Director of the National Science Learning Centre and in 2006 was appointed as the Government's first director of the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programme. He has been involved in a number of important curriculum developments, including Science and Technology in Society, the Salters' curricula and the new 21st Century Science GCSEs
15.30 - 17.00, Room 422, School of Education, Edgbaston
Please email Bev Burke (b.a.burke@bham.ac.uk) to confirm your attendance. Refreshments will follow the seminars at 17.00
All welcome to attend.
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Lunch-time seminar
Sharing reflections on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship: opportunities and challenges investigating “Women in Oman, physical education, training and teaching.”
Tansin Benn
The presentation will recount experiences from a recent (2008) Leverhulme Research Fellowship opportunity to conduct research in Oman over three months. The experience brought into stark focus the issues of being an outsider researcher, bringing many unforeseen challenges. While the study built on substantial years of research with British Muslim women in the field of physical education, there was much to learn when inside an Islamic, Omani, Arabic cultural environment. The study involved exploration of the life experiences of women in Oman, with a focus on physical education ITT students in Sultan Qaboos University. Key to conducting and interpreting such an ambitious research study with Omani women was recognising the significance of situation, socio-historical, environmental and cultural context, and the importance of researcher sensitivities and preparedness to broaden personal frames of reference to see the world as others.
13.00 - 14.00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
All welcome – (bring sandwiches and coffee)
Friday 7 November 2008
Languages, Discourses and Society seminar series
Literacy, gender and performance-driven curriculum reform
Gemma Moss (Institute of Education)
This seminar will consider how the current round of educational reform has changed the space in which to think about gender and literacy. It will counterpoise the current quest for quick policy fixes to a more detailed understanding of how and why gender differences in literacy attainment emerge using a range of ethnographic data that explore the social organisation of literacy in the primary classroom.
13.30 – 15.00, Room 408, School of Education, Edgbaston
Thursday 13 November 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Pupils' views of fairness in school: the experiences of 'vulnerable' children
Emma Smith
12.30 - 13.30, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch! (but no PowerPoint)
For further information contact Dee Fellows: d.r.fellows@bham.ac.uk
Tuesday 25 November 2008
College of Social Sciences debates on challenges facing social scientists
Making a difference with research: is research impact always a good thing?
Chaired by Professor Roger Backhouse (Birmingham Business School) with contributions from:
Professor Stephen Gorard (Education)Professor John Holmwood (Government and Society)Professor Karen Rowlingson (Social Policy)
12.30, Room G03, University House, Birmingham Business School
Friday 28 November 2008
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series
Disciplinary Experts? EAL and Reading Teachers in a Florida High School
Candace Harper - (University of Florida)
Current educational accountability requirements in the U.S. have mandated that students scoring below grade level on a standardized reading test must receive 90 minutes of intensive reading instruction daily. Many EAL students are also caught in the net of remediation and placed into reading intervention classes along with struggling readers who have very different instructional needs and with Reading teachers who understand very little about second language learners and their literacy learning needs.
This paper explores the professional expertise and collaborative practice of an EAL teacher and a reading coach working in a large public high school. Informed by Shulman (1986), Tsui (2003), and Walqui (2001), among others, the research draws on classroom observations and semi-structured interviews conducted in the first term of the current school year. The study explores these two educators’ shared and divergent perspectives on the nature, roles, and relationships of oral language, literacy learning, and reading assessment. Emerging insights may inform our understanding of effective teacher preparation and the ongoing professional support needed by Reading and EAL educators.
13.30 - 15.00, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, contact Lynn Goode: l.m.goode@bham.ac.uk
Friday 28 November 2008
College of Social Sciences Seminar
Institutional responses to the widening participation agenda
Professor Geoff Layer, Pro Vice Chancellor (University of Bradford) Creating an institutional strategy for widening participation
Dr Viv Wylie, (Action on Access, Lead Adviser for Partnerships): The role of partnership working in widening participation
Professor Stephen Gorard, Professor of Education Research, (University of Birmingham) The role of research in developing widening participation practice
This seminar will consider the challenges that institutions face in developing practice in widening participation and will provide examples of outstanding practice in the area. It is aimed at both practitioners and researchers with an interest in Higher Education policy, practice and principles.
Please email Sandra Cooke s.cooke@bham.ac.uk to confirm your attendance.
13.30 – 16.00, Room G39, School of Education, Edgbaston
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
'Listening, no I mean listening.': reflections on collaborative advisory group work in and beyond a funded research project
Christopher Robertson; Louise Niblett and Jeremy Sharpe
12.30 - 13.30, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
RIPS (Research in Progress seminars) - all academics and students welcome. Reminder: these are deliberately informal - please bring ideas, humour + lunch! (but no PowerPoint)
For further information contact Dee Fellows: d.r.fellows@bham.ac.uk
Friday 5 December 2008
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series
“Beggars of Lahore”
A short film by Sheba Saeed (Doctoral student, U. of Birmingham)
This session will show a short film “Beggars of Lahore” produced as part of the Director’s MPhil degree which led to her current doctoral research in the field of begging. Following the film there will be an opportunity for discussion through a Question & Answer session
“Beggars of Lahore” is a journey into the streets of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city and cultural hub to discover what compels the beggars to beg and what measures have been placed by the Government and Non Governmental Organisations to assist the beggars.
The documentary examines the political, social, religious, economic reasons for begging as well as the growth of the beggar’s mafia including case studies of beggars and interviews of Cricketer/Politician Imran Khan, Advocate/Human Rights activist Hina Jilani, Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi amongst many others from both the public and private sphere as well as the general public.
[Un]bridging the gap between home and school literacies.
Elaine Rocha Schmid (Doctoral student, School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham)
An ethnographic case study of adolescents’ home and school literacy practices across social classes in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A number of theorists have argued that the transformations in youth culture and the new language and literacy variants that have been brought about with technological media have been met with resistance by educators who do little to incorporate their pupils’ literacy practices outside school to their classes. From this perspective, there is the assumption that a mismatch and cultural clash between what goes in the school curriculum and students’ literacy practices outside school might no longer be exclusive to the academic lives of lower working class and minority students as a series of studies have suggested in the past, but that it is now also an aspect present in the school life of those socio-economically privileged students whose cultural identities and languages are in continuous transformation by their being engulfed in the new media dynamics.
With a view to putting this assumption to test in the context of education in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in order to bring adolescents’ voices to this debate, I embarked in an ethnographic research study designed to look into 1. adolescents’ literacy practices outside school; 2. how adolescents and their teachers conceptualize these practices; and 3. how adolescents’ literacy practices outside school inform classroom work.
In this presentation, I will give an overview of the study and will draw on a discussion that attempts to identify old and new discourses associated to literacy studies and the teaching of Portuguese to Brazilian children that have arguably had an impact on teachers’ conflicting discourses and classroom practices evidenced in my study.
13.30 - 15.00, Room 312, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, contact Lynn Goode: l.m.goode@bham.ac.uk
Monday 8 December 2008
DOMUS
Panel on "Education through Art"
Speakers: Alan Boulton (Staffordshire University); Victoria Osbourne (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery); Dr. Celia Smith (University of Birmingham)
17:00 - 18:30, Room 423B, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, contact Kevin Myers: k.p.myers@bham.ac.uk
Tuesday 9 December 2008
Knowledge, Culture and Diversity (KCD) Physical Activity, Sport and Education (PHASE) Seminar Series
Social, cultural and pedagogical issues in coaching practice
Speaker: Dr Tania Cassidy (University of Otago, NZ)
16:15 - 17:30, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Sport and Exercise Science
The talk will be 45 minutes with 20 minutes for discussion. We hope to see you all there.
For more information please contact Symeon Dagkas (s.dagkas@bham.ac.uk) or Matt Bridge (m.w.bridge@bham.ac.uk)
To confirm attendance, contact l.a.bryan@bham.ac.uk
School of Education
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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