Pedagogy, Language, Arts and Culture in Education
Conference
Poetry and Childhood Conference & Exhibition
A Faculty of Education and British Library Conference, April 2009. For full details please go to the conference's page in the Faculty events section.
Seminars
Arts, Culture and Education 2007-08:
Artistic Practice as Research - Beyond The Rhetoric
Professor Huib Schippers, Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Griffith University, Australia, examines the genesis of a recent DVD-Rom on the art of interpretation, which attempts to document the artistic process in all its non-linear complexities, and may well become a model for convincingly demonstrating the research components of artistic practice. Thursday 13 December 2007 4:30 - 6:00pm.
The Terrain of Teacher-Artist Partnerships
Graham Jeffery, University of East London, shares some emergent findings from a study, funded by Creative Partnerships entitled Mediated Conversations at a Cultural Trading Post. Exploring how arts educators negotiate, combine, and account for their own trajectories and territories helps to illuminate some of the more shadowy and controversial corners of this very crowded arena of educational policy and practice. Wednesday 23 January 2008 4:30 - 6:00pm Room GS5, Faculty of Education.
Recounting the Journey: Teacher-Researchers Perspectives on What Arts-Based Research is
In this seminar, a diverse range of teacher-researchers will share the central questions from which their arts-based research in education arises, about the journey and destination of their research and what it means for practice. November 2008.
Children's Literature
Professor Maria Nikolajeva, Stockholm University, led a well attended research seminar on 'the Harry Potter phenomenon' on 29 January 2008.
Professor Perry Nodelman, Winnipeg University, led a well attended research seminar on 'Clever Enough to do Variations: Sendak as a Visual Musician' on 5 March 2008.
Second Language Education Group SLEG:
Japanese Language Education and the Impact of Testing
Speaker: Dr Tomoko Fujita, Tokai University and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall. 22 October 2007.
Maturational constraints on L2 Acquisition: Do they exist and are they relevant to early L2 instruction?
Speaker: Professor David Singleton, CLCS, Trinity College, Dublin. 5th November 2007.
Micro-teaching and self-evaluation
Speaker: Dr Richard Pemberton, University of Nottingham. 19th November 2007.
The other side of Brick Lane? Second language proficiency, linguistic vitality and identity construction in the London Bangladeshi Community
Speaker : Dr Sebastian Rasinger, Anglia-Ruskin University. 28th January 2008.
Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England
Speakers: Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Caroline Filmer-Sankey, Ruth Levine. Faculty of Education, Cambridge University. 18th February 2008.
Conceptualising On-line Spaces as Communities: Analysis of an Online Italian-speaking community
Speaker: Marina Mozzon-Mcpherson, University of Hull. 3rd March 2008.