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Research Seminars
Research Seminar Series 2009-20: What can we expect from education research? Starting 25 November 2009
Language, Discourse & Society Seminar Programme October - December 2009
For further details, including all seminar dates, please visit our research seminars webpage
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Research Seminar Series 2009-2010: what can we expect from education research?
The Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the problems faced and solutions proposed with guest speaker, Professor Richard Pring, University of Oxford
Professor Richard Pring, PhL (Gregorian, Rome), BA (UCL), PhD (London), Hon DLlit (Kent) retired after 14 years as Director of the Department of Education at Oxford in May 2003. He is currently Lead Director of the Nuffield Review 14-19 Educational Studies. This is a £1,000,000 six year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
In addition to the Nuffield Review he is also currently working on research projects with the University of Birmingham, QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) funded, to establish a data base of schools for assessing the impact of policy 14-19, and with the TLRP (Teaching and Learning Research Programme): Epistemological base for Educational Research, with Dr Alis Oancea.
Since retiring he has completed the following research projects: the evaluation of the Oxford Bursary Scheme with John Fox, a £125,000 project funded from Atlantic Philanthropies, and an evaluation of quality assurance in 11 Arab Universities, with a grant funding of £12,000 from the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).
Venue: Room 524, 5th Floor, School of Education
Time: 2pm - 4pm.
For further details, including future dates, please visit our research seminars webpage
Previous events
Friday 16 Jan 2009
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series
A person-in-context relational view of emergent motivation, self and identity
Ema Ushioda (Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick)
Motivation has traditionally been regarded as an individual difference variable in linear models of learning behaviour. This leads to a tendency to view pedagogical interventions in terms of methods or strategies, and to view motivation as the product in a chain of cause and effect. Recent trends in educational and language learning research, however, suggest a growing interest in motivation as a dynamic and socially situated phenomenon. In this talk, I develop a person-in-context relational view of language motivation as emergent from interactions between human intentionality and the social world, including the unfolding context of activity. I shall explore theoretical frameworks that can inform a socially and culturally embedded view of emergent motivation, self and identity.
13.30 – 15.00, Room 410, School of Education, Edgbaston
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Sense and sensitivity: issues in conducting research in the field of autism
Glenys Jones
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)
Friday 23 January 2009
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series: Gender and Sexuality: The Discursive Limits of ‘Equality’ in Higher Education
Introduction to Neoliberalism
Dr Liz Morrish and Dr Helen Sauntson
This session introduces key themes and concepts in neoliberalism which are developed in the following three seminars in the series. We specifically focus on those areas of neoliberal theory and practice which have relevance to issues around gender, sexuality and education. This session is open to those who wish to learn more about neoliberalism before attending the rest of the series.
10.00 - 12.00, Room tbc, (Selly Oak campus)
For further information, please contact Helen Sauntson h.v.sauntson@bham.ac.uk
Wednesday 4 February
Governance, Management and Leadership (GML) Seminar Series
Gender balance in the Primary ITE - a current perspective
Celia Greenway and Chris Szwed
13.15 - 14.00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Ann Lance a.c.lance@bham.ac.uk
Monday 9 February 2009
DOMUS
Widening participation and the historical context
Dr David Thomson, University of Wolverhampton
17.00 - 18.30, Room 423b, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Kevin Myers k.p.myers@bham.ac.uk
Friday 13 February 2009
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Group Seminar Series
Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: Postcolonial Gothic in Toni Morrison and Nalo Hopkinson
Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching
“The process of mutual postcolonial abjection is, I suppose, one that confronts us everyday in the ambiguous form of a series of uncanny returns” (David Punter)
David Punter establishes a link between the disgust, abjection and haunting of much literary Gothic and the postcolonial. African American and Afro Caribbean women Gothic writers utilise and further develop the characteristics and strategies of the literary Gothic, and horror, taking these into new territory and new realms of experience. They explore racism, suppressed history, sexism, and women's roles and conditioning. In so doing, they use spaces somewhat new to Gothic fictions: Africa, the Caribbean, African American middle America and underground Canada. For some, the questioning of hidden or disempowering aspects of self-image using the speculative, fantastic strategies of the Gothic could be seen as less “serious” than the strategies of realism. In this respect, postcolonial postfeminist, Tananarive Due identifies the use of strategies of fantasy, horror, the literary Gothic as a risk: “I needed to address my fear that I would not be respected if I wrote about the supernatural.” Fantasy is a form which often does not gain its rightful respect and approval. While Due voices her concern that her work should be taken seriously, Toni Morrison asserts the importance of re-engagement with the powerful, historically, culturally inflected mythic and magical dimension of Black consciousness and imaginative history. Morrison places the imaginary as expressed in the literary Gothic in fantasy, the supernatural and horror centre stage, as creative ways in which postcolonial people see the world and express their visions. She talks of finding “the tone in which I could blend acceptance of the supernatural and a profound rootedness in the real time at the same time with neither taking precedence over the other” (“Rootedness” 342). One of her reasons for this is a re-engagement with the “discredited” worldview and expression found in once colonised or enslaved cultures. Nalo Hopkinson’s uses literary Gothic strategies – doubles, the supernatural, fantasy, futures, transformation – to express postcolonial and postfeminist reclamation of identity, history, voice and the body. This paper will look at two texts in the main, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘A Habit of Waste’.
13.30 - 15.00, Room 422, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Lynn Goode l.m.goode@bham.ac.uk
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series: Gender and Sexuality: The Discursive Limits of ‘Equality’ in Higher Education
For Us or Against Us: Coercion and Consensus in Higher Education
Professor Mary Evans, University of Kent
In debates about the admissions of state school pupils to Oxbridge those defending Oxbridge have challenged the idea that universities should be 'engines of social change'. At the same time Oxbridge, and other universities have accepted the responsibility of 'enabling' entrepreneurship and other market led initiatives. I want to explore some of the implications of this position in terms of the 'making' of the person in higher education and in particular the ways in which conservative refusals of radical gender and class change re-inforce structural inequalities.
10.00 - 12.00, Room OLRC 104, (Selly Oak campus)
For further information, please contact Helen Sauntson h.v.sauntson@bham.ac.uk
Thursday 26 February 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Gender and high achieving pupils
Christine Skelton
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, please contact Sandra Ratcliffe edu-319temp@bham.ac.uk
Monday 2 March 2009
The first of a senies of four lunch-time open research meetings on: Getting your work published
Getting your work paper published
Stephen Gorard
13.00 - 14.00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Joan Lloyd j.v.lloyd@bham.ac.uk
Monday 2 March 2009
DOMUS
Joint workshop with the Centre for Birmingham and Midlands History
Education through Heritage
Dr Richard Clay and Dr Malcolm Dick
17.00 - 18.30, Room 423b, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Kevin Myers k.p.myers@bham.ac.uk
Tuesday 3rd March 2009
This Seminar is part of the programme for a research link between CIER and the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre, University of Toronto - funded by the International Council for Canadian Studies
Exploring Global Citizenship Education as a Framework for Teaching about Diversity
Works in progress: Exploring possibilities for future research, collaboration, and practice
Professor Mark Evans and Dr Reva Joshee, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada
The intent of this session will be to provide an overview of four existing and/or emerging works in progress that address the broad theme of 'Exploring Global Citizenship Education as a Framework for Teaching about Diversity' that we are currently involved with that may lead to some form of longer term collaboration with our Birmingham colleagues.
Four works in progress that we intend to discuss include:
Professor Mark Evans is Associate Dean, Teacher Education and Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Dr Reva Joshee is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she teaches courses on social diversity and policy studies.
12:30, Room G39, School of Education, Edgbaston
Please contact Sue Gallagher (s.gallagher@bham.ac.uk) to reserve your place.
You are welcome to bring your lunch along – refreshments provided.
Friday 13 March 2009
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series
Finding Foucault at the Edge of Education
Helen Lees (School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham)
The discursive construction of Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy: a linguistic ethnography of practitioner collaboration'
Liz Chilton (School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham)
13.30 - 15.00, Room 422, School of Education, Edgbaston
For further information, please contact Lynn Goode l.m.goode@bham.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
The emergence of reasoning skills in children: a closer look at the paradigm of deductive and probabilistic reasoning
Jodi Tommerdahl and Paul Moran
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)
Monday 23 March 2009
British Educational Research Association
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group
New Researchers’ Seminar Day
This one day research seminar is aimed at anyone with an interest in physical education and sport pedagogy. The focus of this seminar day will be to encourage new researchers in the field to present their work, discuss current ideas and perspectives, and gain feedback from a range of academics and professionals.
Seminar outline (PDF)
9.30 - 15.45, School of Education, Edgbaston
Tuesday 21 April 2009
The second of a series of lunchtime open research meetings
Applying for Research Funding
Professors Stephen Gorard and Christine Skelton
Although some of this workshop will be tailored for the School of Education – all are welcome
13:00 - 14:00, Room 224, School of Education, Edgbaston
Please contact Joan Lloyd, T: 0121 414 7446 or E: j.v.lloyd@bham.ac.uk for more details.
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
Including the Self in our thinking about care; late Foucault and the inclusion of difference
Helen Lees
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)
Friday 24 April 2009
Widening Participation in Higher Education
Critical perspectives on higher education
This seminar will take a critical perspective on what it means to study in higher education, both here and in Australia. It is aimed at both practitioners and researchers with an interest in Higher Education policy, practice and principles.
What is ‘higherness’?
Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Professor of Applied Research in Further Education and Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Education, University of the West of England
Do dual-sectors contribute to social justice?
Dr Leesa Wheelahan, Senior Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia
13.30 – 15.30, Room G39, School of Education, Edgbaston
Please email Sandra Cooke (s.cooke@bham.ac.uk) for more details.
Refreshments will be available. Everyone welcome!
Seminar Series: Gender and Sexuality: The Discursive Limits of ‘Equality’ in Higher Education
Funded by the University of Birmingham Deans’ Funding Initiative
Resisting the Neoliberal University: Discursive and Practice-based Strategies
Dr Joyce Canaan, Birmingham City University
Many of us working in UK universities (as in others) increasingly find and feel ourselves stymied, depleted and oppressed (if not depressed) by the seeming inevitability and expansion of neoliberal discourses and practices that require us to demonstrate endless productivity and continuous improvement of teaching, research and administrative capacities that derail our efforts to engage as fully as possible with at least teaching and research. In this context some 'academic' or 'scholar activists' are beginning to develop critiques that articulate how neoliberalism profoundly harms academics, students, HE institutions and the capacity for critical thinking about and egalitarian transformation of the world-sorely needed in the current climate of economic and ecological crisis. Some of these academic/scholar activists are beginning to create counter-discourses and practices. This paper, based on interviews with academic/scholar activists, explores these activists' efforts to critique and implement progressive alternatives within, beyond and against the neoliberal university. The paper aims to encourage others to work with these and other activist/scholar academics to help create a more humane, dignified and enabling Higher Education system in future.
10.00-12.00, Selly Oak Campus, School of Education, Edgbaston
The Birmingham Conference 2009
at the Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham
The annual educational day-conference for health care professionals. Hosted jointly by the West Midlands Workforce Deanery and the Centre for Research in Medical and Dental Education, University of Birmingham.
2009 conference theme: Assessment
The one-day conference will bring together people working across the health care professions to debate current issues and share good practice. The theme for the 2009 conference is Assessment. Delegates will hear from keynote speakers, take part in interactive workshops and listen to short presentations of current research. A �soap-box� session will give delegates the opportunity to air burning issues. And of course, the meeting provides an opportunity 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 would like to be activity involved in the conference. The conference gives the opportunity to showcase excellent work taking place across the West Midlands and further afield. There are opportunities to run a workshop (1 hour, 1� 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: 30th January 2009
To book a free place (numbers are limited), please complete the Registration form. Registration includes lunch, teas and coffees.
For further details please e-mail j.wootton@bham.ac.uk or check the website at www.education.bham.ac.uk
We look forward to welcoming you there.
The 2009 conference is kindly sponsored in full by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.
Thursday 28 May 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
The impact of educational attainment upon employment status: comparing the Network 1000 sample with the wider population
Ben Clements
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)
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) Group
RIPS
The relationship between the narratives of marginalised young people's lives and ultimate questions
Tim Evans (Theology)
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)
The fourth in a series of lunchtime open research meetings
Researching for Impact
Lead Presenters: Professors Stephen Gorard and Christine Skelton
1pm-2 pm, Room 224 (off 2nd Floor Foyer), Education Building, Edgbaston
Everyone welcome
Friday 3 July 2009
Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series
Negotiating Methodological Rich Points in Applied Linguistics Research: An Ethnographer’s View
Professor Nancy H Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
“Methodological rich points” are those points that make salient the pressures and tensions between the practice of research and the changing scientific and social world in which researchers work – points where our assumptions about the way research works and the conceptual tools we have for doing research are inadequate to understand the worlds we are researching. In this paper, I highlight some methodological rich points around issues of inference and generalizability, drawing on ethnographic applied linguistics research, and in particular on research carried out by Indigenous students for their Master’s theses at PROEIB Andes, the Program for Professional Development in Bilingual Intercultural Education for the Andean Region (PROEIB Andes) at the University of San Simón (UMSS) in Bolivia. At the same time, I seek to reframe these issues in the context of more basic questions of research methodology and ethics.
1.30pm - 3.00pm, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston
Saturday 4 July 2009
Research Student Conference - by students, for students
Education Research, Education Researchers: Diverse Experiences and Perspectives
Keynote speaker: Professor John Furlong, University of Oxford
9.00 - 17.30, Room tbc, School of Education, Edgbaston
For more information, please e-mail Denise Lees d.p.lees@bham.ac.uk
Thursday 16 July 2009
Educational Psychology Open Evening
The evening comprises a presentation by tutors, followed by an opportunity for prospective applicants to ask questions relevant to their own planning and preparations for the application process.
6.00 pm until 7.30 pm, Conference Room, School of Education, Edgbaston
Directions can be downloaded from http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/ [opens new window]
(If planning on travelling by car, you would need a pound coin to use the campus car parks).
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Educational Review Guest Lecture 2009
‘Educating for Political Activity’ with guest speaker, Professor Clyde Chitty
Clyde Chitty has just retired from Goldsmiths College, where he was Head of the Department of Educational Studies for eight of the past twelve years. He is now Visiting Professor of the Institute of Education, University of London.
He is the author, co-author or editor of over forty books and reports on education, including Thirty Years On (with Caroline Benn); Eugenics, Race and Intelligence in Education; and Education Policy in Britain.
He is also the editor of the widely-read independent journal Forum, which promotes 3 to 19 comprehensive education. The journal has been published three times a year, without interruption, since 1958.
Publisher stands and refreshments are available from 3.30 and the lecture will commence at at 4.15 with Canapé and Wine to follow.
Venue: G39 (Conference room), School of Education.
Time: 3.30pm - 7pm
The event is free, but entry is by ticket and numbers are limited. If you, or any of your colleagues, would like to attend this year’s Guest Lecture please contact Laura Coutts, acting Editorial Assistant.
Event details Educational Review 2009 (PDF, 20KB, opens in new window)
Friday 9 October 2009
Languages, Discourses and Society research group seminar
Literacy practices and construction of identities in schools: Perspectives of migrant pupils
Dr Sari Pöyhönen, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Migration processes in past decades have fundamentally changed Finnish schools, as they have become increasingly multilingual and multicultural. This presents challenges to schools and especially teachers in understanding different values, interests and literacy practices of pupils who not only represent diverse national, ethnic and linguistic groups, but also heterogeneous subcultures and communities of practice (Pöyhönen & Saario 2009; Wenger 1998; Barton et al. 2000).
Schools as institutions have the power to categorise social identities. “These categories are inscribed in cultural models of schooling and transmitted through teachers’ interactions with pupils, but also through, e.g., curriculum and materials design” (Hawkins 2005). As Hull and Schultz (2002) put it, it will become even more crucial for teachers to be able to acknowledge and support pupils’ identity work, and negotiate the boundaries between school and out-of-school literacies in offering access to varieties of languages, speech genres and literacy practices.Venue: School of Education, Room 524
Time: 1.30 - 3.99pm
For further information, contact Lynn Goode, L.M.Goode@bham.ac.uk, Tel: 0121 415 8196
Thursday 15 October 2009
2009 Professor Ron Gulliford Memorial Lecture
Bullying or Befriending? Children's Responses to Classmates with Special Needs with guest speaker Professor Norah Frederickson.
Norah Frederickson is Professor of Educational Psychology at University College London and a Senior Educational Psychologist in Buckinghamshire. Her publications include evaluations of inclusive practice and educational innovations, applications of systems theory in education and investigation of phonological skills in reading development and dyslexia. She is the co-author of a leading UK textbook on Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity (second edition published in 2009). Her current research interests include social competence in children and factors influencing inclusion and belonging in school. She is a member of the UCL-led consortium that is conducting the national evaluation of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools Programme.
Venue: School of Education, Room G33 (refreshments in G39)
Time: 06.30 to 7.30 pm, 15 minutes of which will be set aside for a question and answer session.
This is a collaborative venture between the University of Birmingham and NASEN. A contribution of £5 towards refreshments after the event is being requested to cover costs.
For further information, including details of the online booking form please view the Gulliford flyer (PDF, 27KB, open up in new window)
For further information please contact Karen Turner-Brown: K.Turner-Brown@bham.ac.uk, Tel: 0121 414 4834
Invitation to book launch and Raymond Priestly lecture
You are invited to the launch of two books written by Clive Harber (see attached) and recently published by Educational Heretics Press.
2.30 - 3.00 Toxic Schooling : How Schools Became Worse (Clive Harber, University of Birmingham) (Toxic Schooling flyer, pdf, 66 KB, opens new window)
3.00 - 3.30 Recycling Schools (Roland Meighan and Peter Humphreys, Centre for Personalised Education)
3.30 - 4.00 And now for something completely different ……Isn’t That Dangerous? : African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals (Clive Harber, University of Birmingham) (Isn't That Dangerous flyer, pdf, 1.8 MB, opens new window)
4.00 – 4.30 Coffee and Biscuits plus book sales (at a discounted price!) and signing
Educational Heretics Press is a not for profit publisher. All income from book sales is invested in the Centre for Personalised Education. Any surpluses from "Isn’t That Dangerous" will be donated to Médicins Sans Frontières.
2.30 - 4.00, School of Education building, Room G39
The Raymond Priestley Lecture 2009
Frank Coffield is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, having previously worked in the universities of Newcastle, Durham and Keele. Earlier he had taught in a comprehensive school, an approved school and at Jordanhill College of Education in Scotland.
He was Director of the ESRC’s research programme into The Learning Society from 1994 to 2000, and edited four reports and two volumes of findings from the programme.
In 2004 he published Learning Styles and Pedagogy in post-16 Learning: a systematic and critical review and Should We Be Using Learning Styles: what research has to say to practice.
He is currently the Principal Investigator of an ESRC project in the Teaching and Learning Programme, entitled ‘The Impact of Policy on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the New Learning and Skills System’. A book, Improving learning, skills and inclusion: the impact of policy, is to be published by Routledge Falmer.
His inaugural lecture entitled ‘Running Ever Faster Down the Wrong Road: An Alternative Future for Education and Skills’ is available from the Institute of Education, London.
There will be exhibitions and displays in the Foyer between 4.00pm and 5.00pm. This will be followed, at 5.00pm, by Coffield’s lecture ‘Exam Factories or Learning Communities: What’s Education For?’
Afterwards, there will be canapés available. The event is free, but entry is by ticket, so please complete the booking form if you wish to attend.
Venue: G33, School of Education. Please note that this is a change of venue from that originally specified.
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Event details Priestley lecture 2009 (PDF, 828KB, opens in new window)
School of Education
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
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UK
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