Events Archive
Date: Tuesday 11 September 2012
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Place: Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University Belfast
Schooling and pupil progress: What needs to be done in policy, schools and classrooms. This public lecture will consider multiple ways to address the pressing political and policy issue of inequalities in schooling, which needs to be overcome if we are to ensure pupil progress and secure improved learning outcomes for all. Professor Bob Lingard has been Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland since June, 2008. He is also affiliated with ISSR. He has also been Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2006-2008), where he held the Andrew Bell Chair of Education, and the University of Sheffield (2003-2006) in the UK. From 1989-2003, he worked in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, where he was professor and for a period, Head of School.
For registration and further information please contact Jan Speer at jan.speer@qub.ac.uk
Date: Friday 9 March 2012
Time: 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Place: School of Education, 20 College Green (Room G005)
Humans, by the mere fact of being alive are in a state of intermittence; always in flux – stubbornly refusing reification. When researching living beings, if you want to be true to what you observe, the first thing you realize is that you cannot easily attach to the observed phenomena predefined categories. Yet categories are always available to us, thanks to the shallowness to which we have become accustomed in our fast research world. Identity, ethnicity, culture, nationality are all ready-made – flattened and generalizable categories. Such categories obscure the world and its complexity and promote homogenization – which the powerful, so much need in order to dominate. In my work I have tried to fight these predefined categories, honestly, with data, and to show them in their inaptness when trying to make sense of the complexities of bilingual, multicultural, integrated education in the conflictual and hideous world which is reflected in Israel’s reality.
To view Zvi's presentation -
Senate Room, Queen’s University Belfast, Monday 22nd October 2012
4.00pm - 5.30pm
By Dr Ingrid Johnston
Professor, Department of Secondary Education
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, CANADA
This seminar will raise issues of respecting diversity and of belonging through presenting a case study of a collaborative project between university researchers and a large urban high Canadian school with a high immigrant and refugee population.
Professor Johnston has been Dean of Research. Her research interests include cultural difference and teaching, preparing student teachers for working inethnoculturally diverse classrooms and developing literary curricula with relevance to the backgrounds of immigrant and Aboriginal students. Her research is grounded in postcolonial literary theories, and psychoanalytic approaches to teacher identity.
Please reply to School of Education: d.piekar@qub.ac.uk
Everyone Welcome
Senate Room, Queen’s University Belfast, Monday 22nd October 2012
4.00pm - 5.30pm
By Dr Ingrid Johnston
Professor, Department of Secondary Education
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, CANADA
This seminar will raise issues of respecting diversity and of belonging through presenting a case study of a collaborative project between university researchers and a large urban high Canadian school with a high immigrant and refugee population.
Professor Johnston has been Dean of Research. Her research interests include cultural difference and teaching, preparing student teachers for working inethnoculturally diverse classrooms and developing literary curricula with relevance to the backgrounds of immigrant and Aboriginal students. Her research is grounded in postcolonial literary theories, and psychoanalytic approaches to teacher identity.
Please reply to School of Education: d.piekar@qub.ac.uk
Everyone Welcome
Thursday December 13th 2012 – Riddell Hall, Queen's University
- Collaboration and its impact on education outcomes – discussion on models of collaboration from a research and the work of best/next practice partnerships - Dr Gavin Duffy
- Reconciliation/societal benefits of shared education – sharing through ‘sustained contact’ research and the work of best/next practice partnerships – Professor Joanne Hughes
- Workshops from the three Sharing Education Learning Forum partners – Fermanagh Trust, Queen’s SEP and NEELB’s PIEE
- The current government processes (Area Based Planning, Ministerial Advisory Group on Shared Education, Common Funding Formula review) and how Shared Education is key to each - Professor Colin Knox
Further information will be available closer to the date.
SHARING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Date: 13th February 2013
Time: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis Road
Recognising that religious education has various forms - from situations where it is fully intertwined with religious schooling to those where it is primarily concerned with providing information about religion - this conference will combine theoretical discussions around the possibilities and challenges surrounding sharing religious education as well as research-informed descriptions and evaluations of current examples.
The conference is being organised in Northern Ireland at a time when, following years of division and separation in education, interest in sharing and collaboration in education is high and where experimentation in forms of sharing and collaboration between schools is increasingly common.
Some questions and issues that we hope will be addressed include:
- Is it possible to share religious education across schools of different religious ethos?
- What are the various models of sharing religious education that exist?
- What does research evidence tell us about these?
- Does sharing religious education increase tolerance between pupils?
Guest Speakers include - Mr John Keast OBE, Dr Jones Irwin (Dublin City University), Professor James Conroy (University of Glasgow), The Tony Blair Faith Foundation
The conference is aimed at teachers, policy makers, researchers and academics.
Tea/coffee break: 9.30am, lunch will also be provided.
RSVP to Gareth Amos – 028 9097 5235
For Conference invitation click here.
Date: 1st March 2013
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Venue: Room 116 School of Education 69 University Street
The Centre for Shared Education kindly invites you to attend a presentation by Giuditta Fontana.
Giuditta Fontana is a PhD student at King’s College London who is working on education reform in plural societies. She will be talking with the group about her current research which looks at three ‘experiments’ with shared education in three societies – Lebanon in the 1960s, Northern Ireland in the 1970s, and Macedonia in 2010. She will highlight the deep differences in understandings of sharing, as well as some of the principles that can inform current policy.
Please join us in what we are sure will be a thought provoking talk and discussion, open to staff and students.