Our international visitors in 2019 were:
- Professor Alejandra Boni Aristizabal (La Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain);
- Professor Lynn Fendler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA);
- Professor Anna Kosmutzky (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany).
The theme of the one-day symposium on Wednesday 3rd July 2019 was: Research, teaching and learning across disciplinary frontiers.
Our international visitors in 2018 were:
- Prudence Carter, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, USA;
- Therese Keane, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia;
- Shanthi Robertson, Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University, Australia;
- Derron Wallace, Brandeis University, USA.
The theme of our one-day symposium during International Visitors' Week was "Borders and Boundaries: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education" and you can watch videos of presentations by Prudence Carter and Shanthi Robertson on our YouTube channel.
Our international visitors in 2017 were:
The theme of our one-day symposium during International Visitors' Week was "The Internationalisation of Education: Issues, debates and initiatives".
Our international visitors in 2016 were:
- Amanda Keddie, Deakin University, Australia
- Ole Smordal, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jeoren Huisman, Ghent University, Belgium
The theme of our one-day symposium during International Visitors' Week was "Changing education? Researching diversity and participation".
Amanda Keddie's keynote address: "The academies reform movement: possibilities and problematics for social justice"
Abstract: There is much contention, uncertainty and debate surrounding the academies movement in England. There is no doubt that this reform has radically changed the landscape of state-funded education in England. This presentation provides an overview of some of the key arguments both for and against academisation through a social justice lens. The presentation draws on case study research from three different schooling contexts to illustrate some of the possibilities and problematics for social justice that have been generated by this reform and its various manifestations.
Ole Smordal's keynote address: "Connecting learning across contexts, two cases of design explorations”
Abstract: In educational research there is a focus on improving science learning by combining classroom activities with field trips in order to create variations and transitions between instructional contexts. A challenge is to connect activities in different contexts to foster deeper engagement for students, e.g., by opening up cross-disciplinary activities in schools and organizing observations and data gathering in the local vicinity of the school. Design explorations in two cases are presented, one based on knowledge building about climate changes that is contextualized across physical locations and digital worlds by means of a mobile augmented reality, and one based on incorporating a digital game about future energy sources at a science museum into a school visit.
Jeoren Huisman's keynote address: "Higher education systems and student diversity”
Abstract: Much attention has been paid to diversity in access to and participation in higher education and rightly so. Less attention has been directed to investigating how higher education system characteristics (i.e. macro-level features of the system) affect participation in higher education. It has been assumed that diverse higher education systems better cater for a diverse student population. The presentation will explore this assumption, focusing on the available evidence and what kind of institutional diversity would be most beneficial.
Our international visitors in 2015 were:
- Jenni Case, Virginia Tech University, USA (formerly at the University of Cape Town, South Africa);
- Bob Lingard, University of Queensland, Australia;
- Mpine Makoe, University of South Africa (Pretoria);
- Mikko Ruohonen, University of Tampere, Finland.
Our YouTube channel hosts videos of Jenni Case and Bob Lingard speaking at "Exploring the policy-practice nexus in higher education research" (a one-day symposium held during Visitors' Week).
You can also watch a recording of presentations by Mikko Ruohonen - "RuralVoice (and further) Mobile Voice-based Services for rural India" and Mpine Makoe - "Pedagogical affordances of mobile learning in enhancing distance education in developing countries".
