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Dr Ron Smith Additional Publications

Additional Publications  

  • Smith R.A.L. (in preparation).  Bringing Narrative Thinking to Improving Schools and Classrooms for Peace - Deconstructing and Constructing Education for Peace in Schools and Classrooms.
  • The Standing Conference on Teacher Education North-South (SCoTENS) Citizenship Website. http://scotens.org/citizenship/

 

Selected Conference Presentations

  • Bringing School Communities Together To Promote Education for Diversity. The Fifth Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) Teaching in a Knowledge Society, Dublin, November, 2007.
  • Commissioned Evaluative Research of Community Relations Work - Some Reflections.   Keynote presentation at the Community Relations in Schools: Developing Practice Conference 25th January 2007.
  • Changing the World One School at a time. Invited speaker at the Whole-Schooling Conference, Portland, Oregon, May 2006.
  • Promoting Shared Education School of Education, UNESCO Centre Seminar, University of Ulster, Coleraine Courtroom, 24th April, 2006.
  • School Improvement for Peace in Northern Ireland: Reflections of a Practitioner Psychologist. Invited Speaker at the North Thames Continuing Professional Development Conference on Show - Casing Psychology. London, 27th June, 2006.
  • Peace Stories and Peacebuilding. Bringing Narrative Thinking to School Improvement for Peace in Northern Ireland. The Third International Conference on Storytelling and Cultural Identity, Terceira, Azores. 27th-29th June, 2005.
  • Citizenship Education and ITE. The Second Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) Conference on Citizenship Education, Dublin, September, 2004.
  • Educational Psychology and the Transformation of Schooling for Peace: Reflections on Practitioner Research from a Conflict-Affected Society. Invited paper for the 2004 Annual Course of the Association of Educational Psychologists. Stratford Upon Avon, 25th-27th November, 2004.
  • Examining the Possibilities of Improving School Effectiveness for Peace in Northern Ireland from a Narrative Psychology Perspective. Seminar presented at the Association of Educational Psychologists Annual Course, Europa Hotel, Belfast. 30th October-1st November 2003.
  • Poetic Narratives and Poetic Activism: Implications for Improving School Effectiveness for Peace in Northern Ireland. University of London, Institute of Education, Doctoral School Poster Conference. 12th December,2003.
  • Narrative Identities and Citizenship Education:  A Northern Irish Study. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child and Biennial Conference of the European Affective Education Network. Roehampton, University of Surrey. 26th-28th June 2003.

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