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Jonathan Barnes

 
With Scoffham, S., 'Outlining the Case for Positive Pedagogy', British Education Research Association Annual Conference, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

With Scoffham, S., 'An Emotional Roller Coaster: The transformational impact of overseas study visits on UK initial teacher education students', ESREA Conference, Canterbury (March 2008).

With Scoffham, S. and Cunningham, J., 'Positive Pedagogy in Cross Disciplinary Practice', This Learning Life 2 Conference, University of Bristol (June 2008).

With Scoffham, S., 'Creativity and Teaching', Battersea Arts Centre (November 2008).

Robert Bowie

'Dignity in Religious and Human Rights Education', British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester University (September 2009).

 'PGCE Secondary Provision and the New Curriculum', Escalate, Wrexham University (May 2009).

'How Green is your God?' Canterbury Cathedral Sixth Form Conference, Canterbury (March 2009).

'Environmental Ethics', School Sixth Form Conference, Eco Conference Centre, Martin Mill, Kent (November 2008).

Dr Hazel Bryan

With Carpenter, C., 'Mentors: A practice developed in community', UCET, Birmingham (November 2008).

With Carpenter, C., 'An Investigation into PhD Supervisors' Perceptions of Their Roles', IPDA, Liverpool (December 2008).

Chris Carpenter

'Investigating Physical Education Teachers' Implicit Theories of Learning: A case study set in a specialist sports college', Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens (May 2008).

'Investigating Physical Education Teachers' Implicit Theories of Learning in Descriptions of Exemplary Lessons: A case study in a Specialist Sports College', BERA, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

With Bryan, H., 'Mentors: A practice developed in community', UCET, Birmingham (November 2008).

With Bryan, H., 'An Investigation into PhD Supervisors' Perceptions of Their Roles', IPDA, Liverpool (December 2008).

Jacki Cartildge

'Transformative Education: Biographical Perspectives South East Kent', Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Teaching and Learning, Canterbury Christ Church University (December 2009). 

With Jasper, I., 'Reflections on the Meaning of Wisdom and Knowledge', ESREA Life History Conference, Milan (March 2009).

Judy Durrant

With Ekins, A., Grimes, P. and Precey, R., 'Creativity, Challenge and Change', International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Vancouver (January 2009).

Keynote: 'A Question of Impact', East Sussex LA CPD Leaders Conference, Alfriston (July 2008).

'A Question of Impact', Erasmus Intensive Programme Summer Conference, Canterbury (August 2008).

Mr Simon Ellis

Keynote: 'Every Child Matters: Change for Children...Change for Schools', Conference: 'Beyond NCLB: Educating the Whole Child', Fontbonne University, St Louis, Missouri, USA (April 2008).

Wilma Fraser

With Hyland-Russell, T., 'In Search of Sophia', ESREA, Milan (March 2009).

With West, L., 'Auto/biography, Learning and Education: The critical imperative', SCUTREA, Edinburgh (July 2008).   Published in the Proceedings

Dr Kathy Goouch

'Personal Narratives and Professional Stories, ESREA, Milan (March 2009).

'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable People', Leeds Play Scholar Colloquium, Leeds (May 2008).

'Teachers as Artists, Authors and Agents of Learning', EECERA, Stavanger, Norway (September 2008).

Dr Lynne Graham-Matheson

'Masters of the Game: Teacher educators and the M Level PGCE', ESCalate, University of Wrexham (May 2009).

Professor Vivienne Griffiths

With Kaldi, S. and Thompson, S., 'Comparing Transitions: The professional development of teacher educators in the UK and Greece,' European Conference on Educational Research, University of Vienna, Austria (September 2009).

With Thompson, S. and Hryniewicz, L., 'Developing Research Identities: Effective mentoring for teacher educators,' British Educational Research Association Annual Conference (September 2009).

'Senior Women Managers in Higher Education: Case studies from the UK,' International Learning Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain (July 2009).

'Women Managers in Higher Education: Experiences from the UK', International Conference on Educational Leadership, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India (January 2009).

'Late starters? Mature entry teacher perspectives on their early professional development', European Conference on Educational Research, University of Goteborg, Sweden (September 2008).

With Kaldi, S., 'Mature Student Experiences in Higher Education: Widening participation in Greece and England', European Conference on Educational Research, University of Goteborg, Sweden (September 2008).

With Kaldi, S. and Pires, A., 'Mature Students in England, Greece and Portugal: A new landscape in higher education', Comparative Education Studies in Europe Conference, Athens (July 2008).

With Kaldi, S. and Pires, A., 'Adult Learners and Entry to Higher Education: Motivation, prior experience and entry requirements', International Association of Scientific Knowledge Teaching and Learning 2008 Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal (May 2008).

Dr Mehri Honarbin-Holliday

'Emerging Forms in Masculinity in Iran: The exploration of the body as a resource by young men for meaning-making, and  resisting, contesting, and re-defining identities', The Centre for Media and Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (May 2009).

'Narratives of Resistance and Change in Iran', The Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (November 2009).

'Obama and Iran: Sanctions, the slow death of the Iranian nation', The School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS], University of London (April 2009).

'Deconstructing Alien Geography' and discussing 'authorship', Khalily Lecture Theatre, London Middle East Institute, University of London (February 2009).

Gender and Cinema Workshops, Dox Box 09 International Documentary Film Festival, Damascus (March 2009).

Gillian Hope

'Playing with Designing: The impact of young children's play opportunities and choices on their responses to creative design situations', International Technology Education Association, Salt Lake City (February 2008).

Dr Elizabeth Chapman Hoult

'Naked Writing in the Academy', Dress and Undress, British Sociological Association, Auto/biographical Study Group Conference, London (December 2009)

With Marsh, I., 'The Feminine University: Exploring the possibilities of radically re-thinking higher education with a Cixousian framework,' SRHE Conference, Newport (December 2009)

With Hart, A., 'The South-East Coastal Communities Programme'. Engage Conference, Dublin (June 2009)

With Wells, D., 'University-Aided Transition from Schools to the Public Sector Professions', DIUS: Strengthening Partnerships, London (February 2008).

'Speaking as a Miraculé: The Search for a Framework Within Which to Provide an Autobiographical Account of Resilient Adult Learning as a Doctoral Student', European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, Canterbury (March 2008).

'The Socially Responsible UK University: An autobiographical account of the development of a project in which community-based knowledge transfer is used to support neighbourhood-university approaches to sustainable development in a declining coastal town', Hawaii International Conference on Social Science, Waikiki, USA (May-June 2008).

With Skinner, P., 'The Symbiotic Self: The identity roles of learner and teacher in Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" and David Mamet's "Oleanna"', The Teacher: Image, Icon and Identity, Glasgow (July 2008).

'Reading and Trust in Managed Learning Systems', The European Society for the Study of English, Aarhus, Denmark (August 2008).

Mr Simon Hoult

With Bowie, R., 'PGCE Secondary Provision and the New Curriculum', Escalate, Wrexham University (May 2009)

With Carpenter, C., 'Professional Interaction with Student Teachers' Autobiographical Writing in their Learning Journals on an Initial Teacher Education Course in England: Attending to the Effect?', European Society for Research in Education of Adults, Canterbury Christ Church University (March 2008).

'Enhancing the Teaching-Research Nexus', International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED), University of Utah (June 2008).

'Emancipation of instrumentality? The effects of professionals' engagement with students' reflective, enquiry-based learning in written learning journals on an Initial Teacher Education programme', Learning Though Enquiry Alliance National Conference, University of Sheffield (June 2008).

'Barriers and Drivers to Enhancing Research Informed Teaching at a New UK University' and 'Emancipation of instrumentality? Cultural effects on students' reflective, inquiry-based learning in written learning journals on an English Initial Teacher Education programme', International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annual Conference, University of Alberta/MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (October 2008).

Liz Hryniewicz

With Griffiths, V. and Thompson, S., 'Developing Research Identities: Effective mentoring for teacher educators,' British Educational Research Association Annual Conference (September 2009).

'The Introduction of Early Years Professional Status in England', OMEP European Conference, Syros (April 2009).

Andrew Humphries

'"Seen and Heard"': Childhood dissent in Early Twentieth Century Fiction by Butler, Wells and Forster', Childhood in its Time: The Child in British Literature International Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University (March 2009)

Ian Jasper

With Cartlidge, J., 'Reflections on the Meaning of Wisdom and Knowledge', ESREA Life History Conference, Milan (March 2009).

'Life After and Beyond Skills for Life', SCUTREA, Downing College Cambridge (June 2009).

Nicki Leggatt

'Round Table Presentation on Development of M Level Module with the GRTP', ESCALATE, Carlisle (May 2008).

Dr James Ma

'Burning Eyebrows', EECERA, University of Stavanger, Norway (September 2008).

Dr Catherine Meehan

'White Other: Case study of an immigrant child', International Association for Child Indicators, Sydney (November 2009).

'Home is: Where my family is, European Early Childhood Research Association, Strasbourg (August 2009).

Eric Parkinson

With Hope, G., 'Extending the Remit of Technology Education: Opportunities for designerly activity across the primary school curriculum', British Education Research Association, Edinburgh (September 2008).

With Hope, G., 'Design across the Curriculum: Expanding opportunities for pupil agency and creativity', European Education Research Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden (September 2008). 

Liz Pichon

'Two Part Equality & Diversity Tool: Embedding equality and diversity within self-assessment', EECETT Dissemination, ACER, Bury St Edmunds (December 2009) and Cambridge (November 2009).

Professor Sue Piotrowski

'Widening Participation Strategic Assessment: An Institutional Perspecitive', invited speaker, HEFCE National Conference, London (March 2009)

'14-19 Diplomas: How can we prepare learners for progression? Setting the Context', Regional Conference for Kent and Medway Lifelong Learning Network, Rochester (May 2008).

Dr Sacha Powell

'Working Together in the Early Years: Messages from Research', Thanet Children's Centres Conferences, Millmead Sure Start Children's Centre (May 2009).

'The Value of Play in England's National Policies', International Play Association 17th World Congress, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (January 2008).

With Cremin, T., 'Reading Teachers and Children: Stories from TARS II', BERA, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

With Cremin, T., Collins, F., Safford, K. and Mottram, M., 'Teachers as Readers: Building communities of readers', Primary National Strategy, London (October 2008).

Denise Reardon

'Here to Stay', South East Region EYPS Leadership and Management Workshop, Brighton (June 2008).

'Ask', Leading Early Years Practice Workshop, Maidstone (October 2008).

Dr Ruth Rogers

'Aimhigher: Is it Actually Achieving its Goals?', BERA, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

With Godfrey, R., 'Targets as a Barrier to Meaningful Evaluation', and 'Antisocial Data? Problems with the use of Police and Criminal Justice Data in Educational and Social Contexts', BERA, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

'Limits of the 'Widening Participation" Agenda within Post-Compulsory Education and its significance for "Under-Represented Groups"', European Educational Research Association, Gothenburg, Sweden (September 2008).

Margaret Sangster 

'Students' Perceptions of their Subject Knowledge and Teaching of Mathematics', BSRLM Day Proceedings, Southampton University (June 2008).

'Students' Perceptions of their Subject Knowledge and Teaching of Mathematics – Further Findings', BSRLM, King's College London (November 2008).

Dr Stephen Scoffham

'Children's Hopes and Fears for the World in 2050', Annual Primary Geography Research Conference, Charney Manor, Oxfordshire (February 2009)

'Health, Happiness and the Global Dimension: Reflections on research in psychology and on affective neuroscience', Geographical Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester (April 2009)

'Grappling with Global Perspectives', ESD/GC in ITE Second Annual Conference, London South Bank University (July 2009)

'Health, Happiness and the Global Dimension', Primary Geography Research Conference, Charney Bassett, Oxon (February 2008).

With Barnes, J., 'An Emotional Roller Coaster: The transformational impact of overseas study visits on UK initial teacher education students', ESREA Conference, Canterbury (March 2008).

With Barnes, J. and Cunningham, J., 'Positive Pedagogy in Cross Disciplinary Practice', This Learning Life 2 Conference, University of Bristol (June 2008).

With Barnes, J., 'Outlining the Case for Positive Pedagogy', British Education Research Association Annual Conference, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).

'The World at our Fingertips', Kent Geography Conference for Primary School Teachers, Ashford, Kent (March 2008).

Mr Paul Skinner

With Hoult, E., 'The Symbiotic Self: The identity roles of learner and teacher in Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" and David Mamet's "Oleanna", The Teacher: Image, Icon and Identity, Glasgow (July 2008).

Yvonne Stewart

'Internationalising Teacher Education – a critical case study', The University Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) International Conference, Hinkley (November 2009).

'Contradictions in the Internationalisation of Higher Education– Principles and Aspirations Curtailed', European Conference of Educational Research, University of Vienna (September 2009).

'The Opportunities and Challenges of Internationalisation', The University Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) International Conference, University of Birmingham (November 2008).

Keynote paper, 'Content, Process or Product – Setting the Standards. Critical Global Perspectives on the Early Years Foundation Stage in England', Curricula for Pre-School Education in the World Conference, University of Crete (May 2008).

'Mainstreaming the European Dimension into Initial Teacher Education in England – Enabling and Disabling Factors', Teacher Education Policy Education Network Conference (TEPE), Ljubljana University, Slovenia (February 2008).

Yordanka Valkanova

'Migrant Children's Learning Experiences in the UK', International Symposium: Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children, Bielefeld University, Germany (April 2009).

'Is Self-Reflection an Emotional Experience? Rethinking the use of Video in the Primary Science Classroom', American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego (April 2009).

'Play and Happy Childhood: The value of play in the Eastern European migrant parents' narratives', 3rd International Froebel Conference, Wheelock College, Boston (July 2008).

'"Red pedagogy": Jewish orphans in Soviet Russia (1917-1930)', European Social Science History Conference. University of Lisbon (February 2008).

'Adjusting to a New Life: Eastern European children educational experiences in schools in London', Children and Migration:

Identities, Mobilities and Belonging(s), University College Cork (April 2008).

Professor Linden West

With Fraser, W., 'Auto/biography, Learning and Education; The critical imperative', SCUTREA, Edinburgh (July 2008).

With Merrill, B., 'Biographical Perspectives on Adult Learning', Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education Conference, Vancouver (June 2008).

Dr Viv Wilson

Conferences With Young, V. and Hammond, S., 'Developing 21st Century Primary Teachers through International Collaboration: Fostering critical thinking for primary teacher training in Malaysia', International Conference on Primary Education, Institute of Education, Hong Kong (November 2009).

With Young, V. and Hammond, S., 'Fostering Critical Thinking for Primary Teacher Training in Malaysia', Society for Research in Higher Education, Cardiff (December 2009).

'Raising the Game: Primary school mentors' changing expectations of student teachers' progression in English subject knowledge', BERA, Heriot Watt University (September 2008).