PLACE News
Last updated 8.05.12
Bonnett, Michael
Michael Bonnett recently gave an invited talk at the University of Roehampton entitled: 'Self, environment and education: Emplacement and normative arisings'.
Burke, Catherine
1. New publication: chapter 'Education through Art:. The School Mural as Extended Architecture' in Braster, Sjaak / Grosvenor, Ian / del Mar del Pozo Andrés, María (eds.) The Black Box of Schooling. A Cultural History of the Classroom (2011) Peter Lang.
2. Invited seminar presentation to be given at the Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, London, May 10th.'"Hidden internationalisms" in architecture and education:Mary (nee Crowley) Medd (1907-2005)'
3. Presentation (invited) to be given at the 'British Design, Spaces and Places, 1948-2012' conference to be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London on May 12th.
Burnard, Pamela
Pam Burnard recently gave a keynote address called 'Researching Musical Creativities in Practice' to the Creativity Special Research Interest Group at the 2012 Biennial Music Educators National Conference, National Association for Music Education. St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on Friday 30 March 2012.
Pam will be presenting at the European Association for Music In Schools 2012 Conference, The Hague, Netherlands between 19-22 April on 'Pupils' creative musicianship, The teacher as creative musician, The musician as creative teacher.'.
PLACE is hosting book launch event for Pam Burnard's book 'Musical Creativities in Practice' Friday 13th April, 2012, 4.30-6pm, Room GS5.
Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle
I have been invited to give a presentation at a seminar series run by the University of Glasgow School of Education, drawing on both my own research on reading and research from the wREPLACE project. I am also doing two keynote talks in March - 'Reasons for reading: Why literature matters' for a conference run by London Association for the Teaching of English (LATE), and 'Rivers of reading: Learning from research with young people who read for pleasure' for the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) National Conference at the British Library.
Cunningham, Peter
Peter Cunningham's book Politics and the Primary Teacher was launched at the London Institute of Education on 17 January. http://www.ioe.ac.uk/newsEvents/60390.html
Doddington, Christine
I've just been asked to be a key note speaker at a conference 'Philosophical Perspectives on Outdoor Education' in Edinburgh in May 2012 when I'll be giving a paper on Somaesthetics. the link is www.philosophy-of-education.org/conferences/Conference_details.asp
Earl, Mary
Research area: reframing religious education; implications of second/late/fluid modernity for religious education. ( Beck, Beck, Giddens and Bauman Latest article: Ethics, modernity and religious education (awaiting publication).
E.Esch and M.Solly 2012, (eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Second Language Education, Bern, P. Lang. is now published.
Evans, Michael
Evans, M. (forthcoming 2012) ‘The sociolinguistics of schooling: the relevance of Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other or the Prosthesis of Origin’ in Esch, E. & M. Solly (Eds.) The Sociolinguistics of Language Education in International Contexts. New York: Peter Lang.
Evans, M. & Fisher, L. (forthcoming 2011) Emergent communities of practice: secondary schools’ interaction with primary school foreign language teaching and learning. Language Learning Journal
I am also editing, with Edith Esch, a special issue of Language Learning Journal on Second Language Teacher Development: international perspectives.
In April 2011, I gave a plenary lecture entitled 'Initial teacher education at the crossroads: re-appraising models of teacher training' at 9th International conference, Bilkent University, Turkey
Finney, John
Research areas: Classroom music and public policy; 'pupil voice' in music education; redefining aesthetic education-the ethical connection. Recent publications: 'Music Education in England 1950-2010: The child-centred progressive tradition’, Ashgate, February; 'John Paynter, music education and the creativity of coincidence’, British Journal of Music Education, March; ‘Local Knowledge’, Music Teacher, September; ‘Creativity, Culture and the Practice of Music Education in (eds) C. Philpott and G. Spruce, Debates in Music Education, In press. Currently editing Masterclass in Music, Continuum. Conference presentations in London, Ontario in June on ‘pupils’ voices’ and ‘meta-pedagogy in Initial teacher Music Education’.
Fisher, Linda
Three papers accepted for publication recently: 'The impact of Specialist School status: the views of Specialist Language Colleges' in Educational Review; 'Emergent communities of practice: secondary schools’ interaction with primary school foreign language teaching and learning' with Michael Evans in Language Learning Journal and 'Formative conceptions of assessment: trainee teachers' thinking about assessment issues in English secondary schools' in Teacher Development (with Keith Taber, Fran Riga, Sue Brindley, Mark Winterbottom and John Finney)
Hickman, Richard
Richard Hickman has been invited to do presentations at the National Art educators' conference in New York March 1-5th
Hirsch, Pam
I was asked to speak, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 on Monday 28 November. My role was to elucidate the historical and political context of Ann Bronte’s 1848 novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It was to introduce the dramatisation of the novel that Woman’s Hour is serialising.
Morag Morrison
In November I was honoured to be awarded the title "Friend of Nurses" by Sigma Theta Tau International (International Honour Society of Nurses.) This comes as recognition of the Applied Theatre approaches I have been developing in Nursing Education in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, in the University of Gothenburg through my involvement in ERASMUS teaching and research exchange.
Nicholl, Bill
Bill presented a keynote address at The 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. The conference was entitled 'Where Design Education and Design Research meet..., in Trondheim, Norway on 2nd and 3rd of September.
Nikolajeva, Maria
Maria gave a plenary paper at an interdisciplinary workshop "Early literacy under the focus of language and cognitive development" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany. New publication on picturebooks and cognitive criticism at http://www.springerlink.com/content/16w1t47170g621vn/.
Rokison, Abigail
Book entitled 'Shakespeare for Young People' completed and awaiting publication in summer 2012 by Continuum (Bloomsbury). Currently working on 'Laurence Olivier' for 'The Great Shakespereans' series, published by Continuum (Bloomsbury); 'Henry V' for 'Globe to Globe', a book about the Globe Theatre's 2012 Cultural Olympiad season (CUP). Academic advisor and contributor to 'Prefaces to Shakespeare', a six part series of programmes about Shakespeare for BBC/ PBS and ITV Global. Abigail's first book 'Shakespearean Verse Speaking' has been shortlisted for the Globe Theatre first book award.
Styles, Morag
Dave Whitley and I are back from an exciting trip to Barbados where our Caribbean Poetry Project is moving into St Lucia, St Vincent and Antigua, as well as Barbados (Trinidad and Jamaica), and being represented at the Bim Festival in May. Alongside our excellent partners at UWI, Cave Hill, Professor Mark McWatt and Philip Nanton will be joining in these workshops, with other Bajan poets and academics taking part. I am currently a judge for CLPE Poetry Award and the Anthologise competition.
Taylor, Liz
Liz Taylor's article 'The negotiation of diversity' in 'Teaching Geography' has won an 'Award for Excellence in Leading Geography' from the Geographical Association. Each year an award is made to one article in each of three journals (Teaching Geography, Primary Geography and Geography) which, in the opinion of Geographical Association members (by online voting), has made the greatest contribution to development and good practice. Award presentations will take place at the GA's Annual Conference on Thursday 12 April at the the University of Manchester. Booking information
Walshe, Nicola
Working with Liz Taylor on the PGCE Geography course and MEd Researching Practice (part-time)
Current research: Children's understandings of sustainability and sustainable development. I am currently working with a group of Year 10 students to research how their understanding of sustainability develop over the course of their GCSE studies. As part of this, I am using ‘dialogic diaries’ as a method of exploring (and developing) their changing understanding.
Warwick, Jane
Research areas: Mentoring trainee teachers, men in primary education, Children's independent learning, Teachers' Professional Development
Latest article:
A Male Only Support Group: male trainee teachers’ perceptions of the group’s effectiveness to move them beyond the ‘freak show’.
(awaiting publication).
Current research: ChAT (Children's Articulating Thinking) project with David Whitebread, Neil Mercer, Penny Coltman, Men into Primary - Paul Warwick,Bev Hopper and Mary Anne Wolpert
Whitley, David
Research interests: way nature represented in the arts, especially literature and film; children's literature, particularly poetry. Currently co-editing book on Poetry and Children with Morag Styles and Louise Joy. Most recent paper: postcolonial/environmental perspectives on Japanese anime and Disney.
Wolfe, Sylvia
Research areas: classroom discourse, dialogic pedagogies, processes of learning (with a particular focus on metacognitive development), multimodal literacy practices (EY), computer-mediated-learning (HE).
2007-2008, I was involved with Rosie Flewitt (OU) researching young children’s literacy practices around new technologies in home and nursery settings. I am about to undertake a two year project with Sue Brindley in secondary schools: Changing Practice through Dialogic Teaching.
Publications : Wolfe, S. and Alexander, R. J. Argumentation and dialogic teaching: alternative pedagogies for a changing world . A review article commissioned by FutureLab (Beyond Current Horizons)
2009: Book chapter - Learning through Dialogue in a Primary School in England in ‘Creating Classroom Communities of Learning: International Case Studies and Perspectives (Multilingual Matters).
Just submitted an article with Rosie Flewitt: ‘New Technologies, new multimodal literacy practices and young children’s cognitive development’ to CJE.
Wolpert, Mary Anne
Mary Anne has just returned from a week in Antigua where she has been working on a CCE project, Raising Students' Achievement within an inclusive context in Antigua and Barbuda. She visited schools and delivered workshops on interactive teaching and pedagogies in the context of primary literacy.