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.
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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
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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.
Date: 6th March 2013
Time: 7.30pm (refreshments 7pm)
Venue: Canada Room, Queen’s University Belfast
GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Brandon Hamber
Hosted by NICIE in conjunction with the Sharing Education Programme in the School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Hamber is Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He is also a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Human and Community Development, and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Dunleath Lectures were started in 1997 by All Children Together to promote public debate on the issues facing the integration of Northern Ireland school pupils.
A limited number of seats are still available. Those interested should contact NICIE on 028 9097 2910.
RSVP: NICIE on 028 9097 2910
Date: 15 March 2013
Time: 10am - 1pm
Venue: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 5EE
This show case event by four leading researchers will allow you to hear first hand about the School of Education's ground breaking work. The event will give you the opportunity to learn more about some of our key programmes of research within the School and the impact we are having not just in Northern Ireland but nationally and internationally. We will be showcasing the work of our four research centres. Each centre is led by an eminent international authority in their area. Under their directorship, the four centres are taking forward impressive and highly innovative programmes of research.
What unites the four centres is a commitment to impact and to ensuring that our research leads to real change in transforming the lives of learners and educators. This event will give you the chance to hear specific examples of how this is being done in practice and also to learn about our ambitious plans for the future.
Everyone welcome.
Download the event programme here.
RSVP to Jan Speer (TEl: 028 9097 3041, jan.speer@qub.ac.uk)
Time: 5pm - 6.30pm
Date: Tuesday 26th March
Venue: 20 College Green, Room 12
The Centre for Shared Education would like to invite you to the discussion seminar above.
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DATE: 2 May 2013
TIME: 2 – 4pm
VENUE: Cathcart room (OG/007), School of Education 69/71 University Street
SPEAKER: Violetta Petroska-Beska
Violeta Petroska-Beshka is a professor of psychology at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, a training and research center dedicated to improvement of interethnic relations through education. She served as a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace, Washington, DC (2000-2001), working on issues on intercultural education. A former Fulbright fellow, she holds an M.A. from Columbia University's Teachers College (1983) and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Belgrade (1989). For her accomplishments on improvement of interethnic relations she received the Teachers College (Columbia University) Distinguished Alumni Award for 2011.
In the Republic of Macedonia, education is segregated along ethnic/language lines. Ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian students attend classes with their mother tongue as the language of instruction and most of them study in separate schools. About 20% of the elementary schools have ethnic Macedonian and Albanian students under the same roof but even in these schools all curricular and extracurricular activities are divided and students from the two ethnic communities have very little interaction. The need for shared education is recognized but its implementation in practice faces various challenges mainly due to the existing interethnic tensions and lack of political will.
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Date: Thursday 9th May
Time: 12.30 - 2pm (sandwich lunch)
Venue: Cathcart Room, School of Education, 96/71 University Street.
Speaker: Professor Soon-Wan Kang, Hanshan University, South Korea.
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DATE: 15th May
TIME: 4pm - 6pm
VENUE: Canada room, Lanyon Building, Queens University Belfast
SPEAKER: A Presentation on Asha’s Higher Education Programme by Dr Kiran Martin, Director of Asha
Dr Kiran Martin began a medical career in 1988 as a pediatrician treating cholera in a Delhi slum. Today she is an internationally recognized expert on urban health and development. She is the founder and director of the Delhi based NGO Asha Society (www.asha-india.org). Asha works in partnership with slum communities to improve living conditions and gain access to healthcare, financial services and education. Under Kiran’s leadership Asha’s programs have benefited over 400,000 people and 50 slum colonies in Delhi, and have become models for national programs throughout India. Kiran received the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian awards, and Asha’s work has been awarded Best Practice by UN-Habitat. Kiran continues to live and work in Delhi, India.
Slum dwellers make up 30% of New Delhi’s population of 14 million. The UN estimates that the number of people in the world living in slums passed 1 billion in 2007. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest annual slum growth rate at 4.5%, followed by Southern Asia at 2.9%. Twenty per cent of the world's slum dwellers reside in India. The residents are disadvantaged in nearly every conceivable way, suffering from numerous health, environmental, social and political problems. In Delhi slums, the maternal mortality ratio, and under-fives mortality rate are among the highest in the world. Higher Education is viewed by slum families as a process that delays their children's ability to contribute to the family income. Most families have no money to spare for college tuition and other expenses. Children struggle with the lack of space, the noise of the slum environment, and unreliable power supplies. They have no role models and their career options are limited. Inevitably, the cycle of deprivation is perpetuated as children take up the same unskilled and poorly paid jobs as their parents. Asha’s Higher Education Programme is a pioneering project; in July 2009, for the first time in its history, India witnessed the acceptance of 106 slum children to one of the nation’s most renowned centres of higher learning, Delhi University.
In this presentation, Dr Martin explores the concept of inclusive growth and demonstrates how the pro-poor model of education adopted by Asha continues to transform the lives of slum dwellers.
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TIME: Registration 9.30 am
DATE: 26th and 27th June
VENUE: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis
RSVP: By e-mail to Niki Moat or by telephone 02890973801
GUEST SPEAKERS:
- Prof Tony Gallager (Pro Vice Chancellor, QUB)
- Prof Colin Knox (UU)
- Prof Violeta Petroska-Beska (Chair of the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Macedonia)
- Dr Shany Payes (Head of the Peace Studies at Nazareth Academic Institute, Israel)
- Prof Mark Hadfield (University of Cardiff), and
- Prof Joanne Hughes (QUB)
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TIME: Registration 9.30 am
DATE: 26th and 27th June
VENUE: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis
RSVP: By e-mail to Niki Moat or by telephone 02890973801
GUEST SPEAKERS:
- Prof Tony Gallager (Pro Vice Chancellor, QUB)
- Prof Colin Knox (UU)
- Prof Violeta Petroska-Beska (Chair of the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Macedonia)
- Dr Shany Payes (Head of the Peace Studies at Nazareth Academic Institute, Israel)
- Prof Mark Hadfield (University of Cardiff), and
- Prof Joanne Hughes (QUB)
TIME: 9.30am - 1.30pm
DATE: 27th September 2013
VENUE: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis
SPEAKER: Professor Kathleen Lynch
New managerialism represents the organisational form of neoliberalism. It is premised on the assumption that the citizen’s relationship to the State and others is mediated via the market. Within education, it involves governing through enacting technical changes imbued with market values. Schools and Colleges change from centres of teaching and learning to service delivery operations with targets or ‘deliverables’. The changes are encoded in the morally laudable language of ‘choice’ and ‘efficiency’ endorsed through the glorifying of competition as virtue. Students become ‘customers’ while teachers and academics become ‘customer service providers’.
The ultimate purpose of new managerial reforms is to ensure that schools and colleges are run at reduced costs, thereby reducing the cost of public services to capital. The net outcome is privatising (to individuals and families) the costs of education. New managerialism is thus a highly politicized management strategy. The ostensibly neutral language utilised to enact new managerial reforms is deceptive as it masks the change in the culture of governance from democratic to market control; it conceals the privatising of education as a public good.
In a market system, market-type accountability in educational spending, involving meeting financial and related targets becomes a priority; success in meeting targets leads to an inevitable preoccupation with performance measured through indicators, league tables and rankings. This has a serious impact on the culture of school and college life over time. It encourages a culture of self-fabrication, whereby all achievements are publicly proclaimed. Only what can be measured matters. As we found in our study of Irish primary, second-level and tertiary institutions of education, it promotes deeply careless culture in education (Lynch et al. 2012).
A key question for educators is how to resist neo-liberal-inspired new managerial changes. What can be done to restore education to its nurturing, holistic and person-oriented purposes? How can issues of equality in education be re-prioritised?
Lynch, Kathleen, Grummell Bernie and Devine, Dympna (2012) Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Gender (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
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