Posts tagged with ‘School of Education’
Creative learning – should England be ashamed of itself?
Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education joins the School of Education for this Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy seminar.
Tags: Centre for Research in Arts Creativity and Literacy, education, learning, Paul Collard, School of Education, teaching
Discipline and punish: Foucault, BDSM & his philosophy of power
University of Nottingham Associate Professor Dr Max Biddulph aims to audit Foucault’s interest in BDSM, his involvement in the gay men’s leather scene in San Francisco in the early 1970s and assess its contribution to his ‘forensic understanding’ of both the artefacts and conduits of power.
Tags: BDSM, equality and diversity, history, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2016, Max Biddulph, Michel Foucalt, people and culture, philosophy, School of Education, sexuality
Preparation for leadership – talking about equality and diversity
This is a free day-long event that will focus on both the use of Pupil Premium funding in schools and on the development of school leaders.
Tags: education, equality and diversity, funding, school, School of Education, teaching
School choice in England: three dissimilar case studies in the East Midlands
he English education system is becoming increasingly diverse, with several different school types. Schools also compete for pupils because of the link between enrolment and school funding. In this seminar, Dr Abdul-Hamid will present the findings from her study of school choice in three different secondary schools; an academy, a local authority school, and a faith school. This forms part of a wider comparative study with similar school types in Malaysia.
Tags: Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management, Dr Suriani Abdul-Hamid, education, School of Education, teaching
New principal leadership and school culture
This School of Education seminar presents a study designed to investigate the nature of the interactions between new principals’ leadership and their inherited school cultures in primary schools of different effectiveness states – high, average and low achievement – which face challenging circumstances.
Tags: Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management, education, Rinnelle Lee Piggott, School of Education, teaching
Exploring the role of the body in digital learning environments
The School of Education and Dr Sara Price, Department of Culture, Communication and Media in the Institute of Education, University College London, present this seminar.
Tags: digital, education, Learning Sciences Research Institute, Sara Price, School of Education, University College London
A cognitive science perspective on learning with visual and multiple representations
The School of Education and Professor Shaaron Ainsworth present this seminar.
Tags: education, engineering, School of Education, science, Shaaron Ainsworth, STEM
Coming of age for cognitive acceleration
This session explores the Let’s Think Forum’s recent thinking about the approach of cognitive acceleration, its professional development model and emerging work around pathways to expertise in the approach.
Tags: education, English, mathematics, primary education, Sarah Seleznyov, School of Education, secondary education
Exposing the ‘myth of participation’ in South African secondary school mathematical literacy
Dr Mark North, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, presents the seminar ‘Exposing the myth of participation in South African secondary school mathematical literacy’.
Tags: Centre for Research in Mathematics Education, education, Mark North, mathematics, maths, School of Education, teaching
School of Education launch event: more fragmented, and yet more networked
The School of Education presents the launch event: More fragmented, and yet more networked: analysing the responses of two Local Authorities in England to the Coalition’s “self-improving school-led system” reforms
Tags: government, politics, school, School of Education, teaching, Toby Greany