Lent 2008
| Date/Time | Seminar Title | Location | Sponsor/Contact/Comment |
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| Wednesday, 23rd January 16.30-18.00 | Trading posts and frontiers: border crossings, territorial skirmishes and uneasy truces in the terrain of teacher-artist partnerships - Graham Jeffery, University of East London | Room GS5, Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road | Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education (PLACE) in conjunction with BERA Creativity-in-Education (SIG) & National Association of Music Education (NAME) Regional Events<
Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) |
| Wednesday, 23rd January 16.30 hrs | The misconceptions of 9th grade students related to the particulate nature of matter, the reasons behind these, and their elimination - Oktay Bektas, Study Visitor at Faculty of Education and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara | Seminar Room, Science Education Centre | Science Education
Keith Taber (kst24@cam.ac.uk) Light refreshments from 16.00 hrs |
| Monday, 28th January 17.00-18.00 | The other side of Brick Lane? Second language proficiency, linguistic vitality and identity construction in the London Bangladeshi Community - Dr Sebastian Rasinger, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge | Room GS4, 184 Hills Road | Second Language Education Group (SLEG-PLACE)
Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk) |
| Tuesday, 29th January 16.30-18.30 | Education & Development Workshop:A reflection of the dilemmas and challenges of exploring sexuality education in a poor school community in Kenya - Susan Kiragu, Faculty of Education | Room 2S4, 184 Hills Road | Education, Equality and Development Group
Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk) Tel 01223-767626 |
| Tuesday, 29th January 18.00-19.00 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Professor Maria Nikoleyeva, Stockholm University | Room GS1, 184 Hills Road | Faculty of Education Children's Book Group
Morag Styles (ms104@cam.ac.uk) |
| Monday, 4th February 17.30 hrs | Doing Mathematics in Different Places - Libby Jared, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge | Room G05, Mary Allan Building, 184 Hills Road | Cambridge Mathematics Education Colloquia
Tim Rowland (tr202@cam.ac.uk) Tea and coffee available prior to meeting |
| Tuesday, 5th February 13.00-14.00 | Educational research: bridging the gap between universities and schools - Professor Menga Ludke, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | Room 2S8, 184 Hills Road | FESRA (Faculty of Education Students' Research Association)
Cleonice Puggian (cp282@cam.ac.uk) |
| Tuesday, 5th February 16.30-18.00 | Children's Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of Object Motion: The First Results - Christine Howe, Joana Taylor Tavares and Amy Devine, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge | Room GS1, 184 Hills Road | Psychology and Neuroscience in Education
Patricia Tynan <pt302@cam.ac.uk> FACULTY STAFF AND STUDENTS ONLY |
| Wednesday, 6th February
17.30-18.30 |
Improving workplace learning: Towards an integrated, cultural approach - Professor Karen Evans, Institute of Education, London | Wolfson College | Institute of Continuing Education
For further information and to reserve a place, contact Dr Wendy Knightley (email wmk22@cam.ac.uk) |
| Thursday, 7th February 11.00-16.00 | Teacher Research Revisited - Chaired by John Gray
Teacher Research issues in Brazil (and in England?) Menga Ludke, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Teacher Research: values and purposes - Action Research as Teachers' Research: Ciaran Sugrue and Elaine Wilson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Review of the Issues: discussion led by John Elliott, University of East Anglia and Martyn Hammersley, Open University Assessing the quality of action research: John Elliott, University of East Anglia Teacher Research Issues (short, informal contributions from David Frost; Colleen McLaughlin and Anne Sinkinson; Sue Brindley, Anne Bowker and David Frost |
Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road | Leading Learning for School Improvement
Note: This is an invitation-only seminar: contact Lyndsay Upex (email lju20@cam.ac.uk) if you would like to attend |
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Monday, 11th February 16.00-18.00 |
Inugural Workshop : Are you interested in issues regarding globalisation and education? Does your work concern the representation of marginalised groups in British and/or international contexts? Would you like to learn more about postcolonial theory and how it may be relevant to your teaching and/or research? |
Room 2S3, 184 Hills Road |
Education Equality and Development Group Postcolonialism, Globalisation and Education Reading Group If you are interested, please contact Arathi Sriprakash (email as621@cam.ac.uk) or Ian Munday (itm23@cam.ac.uk), sending your name and areas of interest. |
| Tuesday, 12th February 13.00-14.00 | Geocaching - An analysis of the role of GPS devices and internet community in triggering and sustaining mobile informal learning - Gil Clough, PhD student, Open University | Room GS3, Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road |
FESRA Research Seminars Christina Haiisoteriou (email ch414@cam.ac.uk) Feel free to bring your lunch! |
| Monday, 18th February 17.00-18.00 | Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England - Dr Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Caroline Filmer-Sankey, Ruth Levine, Faculty of Education University of Cambridge | Room GS4, 184 Hills Road |
Second Language Education Group (SLEG-PLACE) Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk) |
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Tuesday, 19th February 13.00-14.00 |
Triggering University Students' Mathematical Creativity By Use of Technology - Chantal Buteau, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brock University | Room GS1, 184 Hills Road |
Mathematics Education Lunchtime Seminars Zsolt Lavicza (zl221@cam.ac.uk) |
| Wednesday, 20th February 14.00-16.30 | Book Launch - Networking Practitioner Research: The Effective Use of Networks in Educational Research, Routledge November 2007 - Colleen McLaughlin and Kristine Black-Hawkins, University of Cambridge (in conjunction with Leading Learning for School Improvement) | Room 2S4, 184 Hills Road |
Education, Equality and Development Group Coffee and biscuits at 14.00 hrs Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk) 01223-767626 |
| Wednesday, 20th February from 18.00 hrs |
Book Launches: John Finney/Pam Burnard (2007) Music Technology with Digital Technology, London, Continuum Chris Doddington/Mary Hilton (2007) Child-Centred Education: Reviving the Creative Tradition, London, SAGE. |
Grantchester |
Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education (PLACE) For members of PLACE only, contact Ann Curtis (ac348@cam.ac.uk) for further information |
| Tuesday, 26th February 13.00-14.00 |
Doing Elite Interview in Thailand - Vong-on Phuaphansawat, PhD student, University of Cambridge Electroacoustic Music - Anna Marie Higgins, PhD student, University of Cambridge |
Room 2S5, Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road |
FESRA Research Seminars Christina Haiisoteriou (email ch414@cam.ac.uk) Feel free to bring your lunch! |
| Tuesday, 26th February 16.30-18.30 |
Education & Development Workshop:Representation and Legitimacy: The ethics and politics of ethnographic research in 'Developing Worlds' contexts - Arathi Sriprakash, Girton College |
Room 2S4, 184 Hills Road |
Education, Equality and Development Group Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk) 01223 767626 |
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Wednesday, 27th February 16.30 hrs |
Motivation and learning science - Dr Marta Romero Ariza and Dr Antonio Quesada Armenteros, Department of Didactics of Sciences, University of Jaen, Spain | Science Seminar Room,Hills Road |
Science, Technology & Mathematics Education Keith Taber (kst24@cam.ac.uk) |
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Monday, 3rd March |
The Role of 'Schema Problems' in Cypriot Mathematics Education- Marilena Petrou, Queens' College | Room G05, Mary Allan Building, 184 Hills Road |
Cambridge Mathematics Education Colloquia Tim Rowland (tr202@cam.ac.uk) Tea and coffee available prior to meeting |
| Monday, 3rd March 17.00-18.00 | Conceptualising On-line Spaces as Communities: Analysis of an On-line Italian-speaking community - Dr Marina Mozzon-McPherson, University of Hull | Room GS4, 184 Hills Road |
Second Language Education Group (SLEG-PLACE) Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk) |
| Tuesday, 4th March 13.00-14.00 | On designing a multi-line entry formative feedback computer system - Eligio Cerval-Pena, University of Birmingham | Room 2S3, 184 Hills Road |
Mathematics Education Lunchtime Seminars Zsolt Lavicza (zl221@cam.ac.uk) |
| Wednesday, 5th March 17.00-18.30 | 'Clever Enough to do Variations': Sendak as a Visual Musician - Professor Perry Nodelman, University of Winnipeg | Room 1S3, 184 Hills Road |
Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education Morag Styles (ms104@cam.ac.uk) |
| Thursday, 6th March 17.00-19.00 | Supper Seminar: Convergence and Transformation - led by Dr Alan McMurdo, Principal Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough | 184 Hills Road |
Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network Contact:lfl@edu.cam.ac.uk Tel 01223 767621 Booking required: Cost £6 (includes glass of wine and light refreshments) |
| Monday, 10th March 12.30-14.00 |
Book Launches: N. Pachler, M Evans and S Lawes (2007) Modern Foreign Languages: Teaching School Subjects 11-19, London, Routledge. D Whitley (2008) The Idea of Nature in Walt Disney Animation, Ashgate, Texas, Ashgate Publications |
Room 2S8, 184 Hills Road |
Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education (PLACE) Ann Curtis (ac348@cam.ac.uk) |
| Monday, 10th March 16.30-18.30 | Education and Development Workshop: Doing elite interviews in Thailand - Vong-on Phuaphansawat, Corpus Christi | Room 2S4, 184 Hills Road |
Education, Equality and Development Group Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk) 01223-767626 |
| Tuesday, 11th March 13.00-14.00 | Youth and age identity: Patrick Alexander, PhD Student, Oxford University | Room 2S5, Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road |
FESRA Research Seminars Christina Haiisoteriou (email ch414@cam.ac.uk) Feel free to bring your lunch! |
| Tuesday, 18th March 13.30-14.30 | Introduction to Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education for PLACE PhDs and their Supervisors - led by Dominic Wyse | Room GS1, 184 Hills Road |
Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education (PLACE) Ann Curtis (ac348@cam.ac.uk) Open to members of PLACE only |
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Wednesday, 16th April 17.30-18.30 |
Public sector reform: Principles for improving the education system: Professor Frank Coffield, Institute of Education, London | Wolfson College |
Institute of Continuing Education For further information and to reserve a place, contact Dr Wendy Knightley (email wmk22@cam.ac.uk) |
| Tuesday 3rd June 16.30-18.00 | Do Undergraduates' Motivations for Study Change as They Progress Through Their Degrees? - Dr Richard Remedios, School of Education, Durham University | Room 2S3, 184 Hills Road |
Psychology and Neuroscience in Education (PNE) Convenor: Professor Christine Howe (cjh82@cam.ac.uk) |
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Wednesday, 12th November 17.30-18.30 |
Title to be confirmed - Professor Miriam Zukas, Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Leeds | Wolfson College |
Institute for Continuing Education For further information and to reserve a place, contact Dr Wendy Knightley (email wmk22@cam.ac.uk) |
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Wednesday, 4th March, 2009 17.30-18.30 |
Why do the English separate further and higher education? - Professor Gareth Parry, University of Sheffield | Wolfson College |
Institute for Continuing Education For further information and to reserve a place, contact Dr Wendy Knightley (email wmk22@cam.ac.uk) |