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Events 2012

Professor Jannette Elwood, Director: Assessment and Learning research Cluster,
School of Education, Queen's University Belfast

The (unregulated?) 11+ transfer tests in Northern Ireland:
ethical questions and considerations of impact

Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Room G13, 69 University Street

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Dr Kalwant Bhopal - our new visiting professor from University of Southampton 

'What about us?' Gypsies, Travellers and 'White racism' in secondary schools in England: Is the situation similar in Northern Ireland?
(now rescheduled due to illness previously)

Date: Friday 3 February 2012
Time: 12.30pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Cathcart Room (G13), 69 University Street
(Sandwiches will be available on a first come, first served basis)

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Professor Dominic Wyse, Institute of Education, University of London

Teaching English, language and literacy: from new theory to classroom practice

Date: Wednesday 22 February 2012
Time: 12.45pm – 2.00pm
Place: Seminar Room, 18 College Green, Belfast BT7 1LN

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Sandwiches will be available on a first come, first served basis

  

Zvi Bekerman - A Non Enlightened and Non Romantic Ethnographic Approach to the Production of Identity and Culture: Researching Events in the Lives of Children at the Integrated Bilingual Schools in Israel.

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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Professor Jo-Anne Baird

Pearson Professor & Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment
Lead Editor of Assessment in Education: principles, policy & practice
Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Belfast 

Fast policy with PISA.  Will our children get their slice of the knowledge economy?

Date: Friday 9 March 2012
Time: 12.30pm - 2.00pm
Place: Cathcart Room (G13), School of Education, 69/71 University Street

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Dr Valerie Ledwith

Dr Valerie Ledwith

The Mirage of Integration: Thwarted Access, Achievement and Aspirations among Young Migration Students in Galway City and Urban Fringe  

Date: Thursday 19 April 2012
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Place: School of Education, 20 College Green (Room G005)

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Dr Angela Eakin, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast

A Formative Evaluation of the Animated Children’s Television Series
Magic Journey, Kyrgyzstan

Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Place: School of Education, G1, 6 College Green 

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Dr Angela Eakin, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast

A Formative Evaluation of the Animated Children’s Television Series
Magic Journey, Kyrgyzstan

Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Place: School of Education, G1, 6 College Green 

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Dr Bronagh Byrne and Professor Laura Lundy, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast

Barriers to Effective Government Delivery for Children in Northern Ireland 

Please note that this seminar will take place on Wednesday 9 May 2012

Date: Wednesday 9 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Place: Cathcart Room (G13), School of Education, 69/71 University Street

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The Right to Education: A Historic Moment in India

Professor Anita Rampal, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of New Delhi, India 

Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 5.00pm - 6.30pm
Place: Canada Room, Lanyon Building

The School of Education in conjunction with the Research Forum for Child present this Open Lecture.

By Please RSVP to Stewart McKibbin

 

Alison Cook-Sather - Student Consultation as a Right in Secondary Teacher Preparation

Date: Monday 11 June 2012
Time: 10.00am - 1.00pm
Place: School of Education, 20 College Green (Room G005), Belfast BT7 1LN

Taking as a premise students’ right to have their experiences and perspectives inform the preparation of future teachers, this Master class has two parts: a lecture that outlines one programmatic approach to honoring that right, and a workshop that affords participants an opportunity to think through developing such practice in their own contexts. The lecture, “Student Consultation as a Right in Secondary Teacher Preparation,” presents an overview of the theoretical underpinnings for student voice work, the programmatic structures that support the positioning of secondary students as teacher educators to undergraduate students seeking secondary certification, and outcomes for prospective teachers and students who participate in the program. The workshop draws on Learning from the Student’s Perspective: A Sourcebook for Effective Teaching (Cook-Sather, 2009) and invites participants to explore some guiding principles for undertaking student voice work, steps in partnering with students and teachers in secondary schools, and approaches to researching such partnerships.

To view Alison's master class please click here. 

For more information about Alison Cook-Sather please click here. 

Re-inventing the 'Training School': what can be learned from the experience of Professional Development Schools in the US?

Professor Rob Hulme, University of Chester

Date: Tuesday 12 June 2012
Time: 1.00pm -2.00pm
Place: Cathcart Room (G13), School of Education, 69/71 University Street

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Sandwiches will be available from 12.30pm

 

Schooling and pupil progress: What needs to be done in policy, schools and classrooms

Professor Bob Lingard

Date: Tuesday 11 September 2012
Time: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Place: School of Education, 69/71 University Street (room to be confirmed)

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Lisa Davis will be presenting a seminar on 'The impact of low income on disabled children's rights'

Date: Tuesday 27 November 2012
Time: 12.30pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Newark Room, Lanyon Building

Please confirm your attendance by emailing Professor Laura Lundy

Refreshments will be provided from 12 noon

17 December: Creative Research Identities Day - Postgraduate Research Training

Creative Research Identities Day

Doctoral Research Centre, School of Education

Postgraduate Research Training

'Creatively Researching using visual methods - Collage'

Date: Monday 17th December 2012
Time:2.00pm-5.00pm 
Venue: Postgraduate Research Centre, 16-18 College Green
Facilitator: Ruth Leitch

Collage is a technique of art production, primarily used in the visual arts where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may sometimes include newspaper, bits of coloured or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

This research training workshop will explore how to initiate visual image-making, such as drawings, collages and posters as part of a research process. It will be focus on participants’ experiential learning as a way of understanding the processes involved in using such creative methods ethically and safely with others, young or old(er). It will, introduce collage as one as one fit-for-purpose means to co-understanding lived experience. Course participants will begin to learn how to:

  • Employ creative visual research methods by engaging in an individual collage based on the theme of your identity as a (doctoral) researcher.
  • See the value of understanding this as a sensitive and ethical process
  • Consider the importance of group contract, safety, space, materials, and timing.
  • Consider visual and verbal data by talking about the creative ’products’ as literal and/or metaphorical and symbolic visual data;

The course is recommended for those who have some basic familiarity with qualitative research methods and who wish to extend their expertise in working creatively in their research.

Maximum numbers 8 (on first come first served basis). Please email d.piekaar@qub.ac.uk to book a place.

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2nd QUART Conference: Ambitious for All: Autism, Behaviour Intervention and Learning

30 November 2012

9.30am - 4.00pm

Whitla Hall, Queen's University Belfast 

A conference with a difference: Setting local experience and expertise into international context, this conference is truly participatory, evidence-based, and person-centered. International keynote speakers will demonstrate hands-on how behaviour interventions can be utilised to enhance academic curriculum and build basic and adaptive life skills.

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Preparing young people to live and work in society: the role of education

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Keith C Barton, Indiana University

  • Dr Hilary Cremin, Cambridge University

  • Professor Diana Hess, Washington University

  • Professor Joanne Hughes, Queen's University Belfast

  • Professor Tony Gallagher, Queen's University Belfast

Date:  10 May 2012
Time:  10.00am - 2.00pm
Place: Canada Room/Council Chamber

For more information and registration details please click here.

Lunch will be provided.

 

Children’s Voices: Visual and Participatory Research Methods with Children

Professor Anita Rampal, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Delhi, India with 
Professor Ruth Leitch, School of Education, Queen’s University

Date: Monday 28 May 2012*
Time: 2.00pm - 4.30pm
Place:School of Education, Cathcart Room, 69 University Street

This workshop is open to students (and staff) who are interested in learning more about creative possibilities for engaging children and young people in research. Professor Rampal has had extensive experience of researching with children (e.g. literacy campaigns) in India using creative verbal and visual methods and Professor Leitch will share her experience of analysing visual images and children’s narratives. Cross-cultural differences will be discussed.  Students may bring children's writings/recordings/drawings and activities and commentary will be provided on possibilities for understanding/analysing such data with children.

Places limited: please contact Stewart McKibbin to secure a place.

*Please note the date of this event has changed from the 21 May 2012

 

Carrie Mitchell and Lung-Chi Lin, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast

Carrie Mitchell
A narrative inquiry of women's lives in Mugu, Nepal: identities, power relations and education

Carrie will give a brief overview of her recently completed doctoral research which was a narrative inquiry of women’s lives in a rural area of north-west Nepal. She will outline the methods used and attempt to foreground the voices of the women to show how their understandings of education are embedded in their complex and uniquely intersecting identities and how these challenge singular definitions of gender and education. Carrie will reflect on some of the dilemmas involved in the process of researching across multiple borders and would hope to generate discussion around the ethical challenges involved in doing respectful narrative research in such a context.

Lung-Chi Lin
Using a corpus derived from business sections of newspapers to facilitate EFL/ESL Business Vocabulary Teaching

This presentation will discuss how word frequency is determined from the corpus derived from the business articles in English language newspapers. Based on the word frequency, word lists can be compiled and certain lexical features can also be ascertained. These word lists and the lexical characteristics, representative of business news genre, are of great  importance and value for pedagogical purposes as they can be exploited in vocabulary teaching and design of teaching materials in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses, such as English for Business and Journalistic English.

Date: Wednesday 21 March 2012
Time: 12.30pm - 2.00pm
Place: Cathcart Room (G13), 69/71 University Street

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Improving Children’s Lives/Research Forum for the Child Research Capacity Training Event

Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis and Latent Growth Modelling
Professor Mark Shevlin and Professor Gary Adamson

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th January 2012
School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast

The Improving Children’s Lives Initiative and Research Forum for the Child at Queen’s University Belfast present this two day training course on Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis and Latent Growth Modelling.
 
This seminar is targeted at those interested in advanced Quantitative Methods with Children and Young People, both in academic and non-academic settings. Some prior knowledge of multiple regression, and/or factor analysis is recommended before application.

For further details please click here. 
 
There are very limited places available on this course and early registration is advised. To book your place please email your name, organisation and payment details to David Piekaar.