Michaelmas 2007

Date/Time	Seminar Title	Location	Sponsor/Contact/Comment
Monday, 24^th September	The Orchestration of a 'Moral Panic' over Sex Education: A South Australian Example – Professor Bruce Johnson, University of South Australia	Room 2S7	Education, Equality and Development Group Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk)
Thursday, 11^th October	The Primary National Strategy: Aspirations and Challenges – Pete Dudley, Director, The Primary National Strategy	Faculty Building	Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network (Supper Seminar) Katie O'Donovan (lfl@educ.cam.ac.uk or tel 01223 767621)
Saturday, 13^th October	Accent on ORFF Creative Music Education – a one-day workshop for Primary generalist and specialist teachers and trainees interested in music at Early Years, KS1 and KS2 – led by Kate Buchanan, Director of Supporting Professional Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music	Auditorium, Mary Allan Building, Hills Road	Orff Society UK Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk or tel 01223-507299) Booking required: cost £50 (£40 for Orff Society members and £25 for students) www.orff.org.uk
Tuesday, 16^th October	Promoting 'Relational Equit': The case of Railside School – Jo Boaler, University of Sussex	Auditorium, Mary Allan Building, Hills Road	Mathematics Education Colloquia Tim Rowland (tr202@cam.ac.uk)
Wednesday 17^th October 2.00 – 5.00	EED Book Launch Seminar Dr Rob Moore Sociology of Knowledge and Education, Continuum June 2007	Room GS3,	Education, Equality & Development Group Contact: Susannah Lacon sml44@cam.ac.uk
Wednesday, 17^th October 17.30 hrs	Exclusionary practices? Gendered choices, opportunities and challenges in the academy – Professor Sue Jackson, Professor in Lifelong Learning and Gender at Birbeck, University of London	The Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB	Institute of Continuing Education Research Seminar Series Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ Wendy Knightley (wmk22@cam.ac.uk)
Monday, 22^nd October 17.00 hours	Japanese Language Education and the Impact of Testing – Dr Tomoko Fujita, Tokai University and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall	Room 2S4	Second Language Education Group Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk
Tuesday, 23^rd October	The Catholic Church and Sexuality Education in Kenya – Susan Kiragu, Ph D Student, University of Cambridge (Supervisor Dr Colleen McLaughlin)	Room GS1	Research Seminar Series Enquiries to Jenny Symonds (jes81@cam.ac.uk)
Tuesday, 30^th October	Immigrant-origin Students' Education and Human Development in the Context of the EU- Christina Hajisoteriou, PhD Student, University of Cambridge (Supervisors Dr Darleen Opfer and Dr Nidhi Singal)	Room 2S5	Research Seminar Series Enquiries to Jenny Symonds (jes81@cam.ac.uk)
Tuesday, 30^th October 16.30-18.00 hrs	Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers – Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London	Room 2S3	Psychology and Neuroscience in Education Seminar Series Nichola Daily <nd241@cam.ac.uk>
Monday, 5^th November	Maturational constraints on L2 Acquisition: Do they exist and are the relevant to early L2 instruction? – Professor David Singleton, CLCS, Trinity College, Dublin	Room 2S4	Second Language Education Group Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk)
Tuesday, 13^th November	Students' Thinking when Using Software and Doing Maths Problems – Anesa Hosein, PhD Student, Open University (Supervisors: Dr James Aczel, Dr Doug Clow and Dr John T E Richardson)	Room 2S5	Research Seminar Series Enquiries to Jenny Symonds (jes81@cam.ac.uk)
Wednesday 14^th November 2007	EED Book Launch Seminar Dr Shailaja Fennell & Professor Madeleine Arnot (Eds) Gender Education in a Global Context: competing frameworks and policy perspectives, Routledge, September 2007	Room GS3	Education, Equality & Development Group Contact: Susannah Lacon sml44@cam.ac.uk
Monday, 19^th November	*Mathematical objects and grounds: shifting meanings across pedagogic contexts* - Jill Adler, King's College London	Mary Allan Building Room G07	Mathematics Education Colloquia Tim Rowland (tr202@cam.ac.uk)
Monday, 19^th November	Micro-teaching and self-evaluation – Dr Richard Pemberton, University of Nottingham	Room 2S4,	Second Language Education Group Edith Esch (eme10@cam.ac.uk)
Tuesday, 20^th November	Strategic Educational Research and Innovation in Singapore – Professor David Hogan, Dean of Research, Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Faculty Building	Sally Roach (saer2@cam.ac.uk)
Tuesday, 27^th November	'It'll look good on your CV': A study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds in 3 British schools – Lucie Shuker, PhD student, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Dr Rob Moore)	Room GS3	Research Seminar Series Enquiries to Jenny Symonds (jes81@cam.ac.uk)
Wednesday 5^th December 2007	EED Book Launch Seminar Dr Tom Steele: Knowledge is Power! The Rise and Fall of European Popular Education Movements, 1848-1939 (Peter Lang, 2008)	Room GS3,	Education, Equality & Development Group Contact: Susannah Lacon (sml44@cam.ac.uk)
Thursday, 13^th December	*Artistic Practice as Research – Beyond the Rhetoric* – Professor Huib Schippers, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia	Room 2S8,	Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education Seminar Series (in conjunction with BERA Creativity-in-Education SIG & National Association of Music Education (NAME) Regional Events Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk)