CRE Events 2019/20
The Centre for Research in Education holds research events to showcase the research of its members.
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The Centre for Research in Education holds research events to showcase the research of its members.
'Society Shaping'
Monday 15 June 2020
As the University looks ahead to the next five years, society-shaping emerges as one of our primary institutional objectives.
Such an objective raises a number of complex questions
What kind of society do we want?
What kind of society might we deserve?
Can society be shaped?
What is society?
How might future generations judge society as we know it today? Are we one society or many societies?
The Faculty of Education and Society was pleased to open discussion of such issues in Society Shaping, its second annual staff research conference.
Abstracts were invited from members of the academic staff on any aspect of society-shaping (including but not limited to pedagogical, practice-based, linguistic, methodological, sociological, cultural, political, economic, philosophical, and literary aspects). In light of the current circumstances, analyses of how the current pandemic may have shaped, or indeed, re-shaped society, were also welcome.
The Faculty of Education and Society is committed to inclusive research practices and we are happy to support our researchers at every stage of their research journey. To welcome contributions from all of our researchers at any and every stage of their work, we invited abstracts for both research papers and speculative workshops.
Research Papers
Abstracts for research papers are invited from staff who wish to report on original research they already have in progress or have recently completed (published, unpublished, or to be published). Abstracts should be no more than 350 words (excluding references) and should make clear how the proposed paper addresses the conference theme. Please limit references to 5 key sources. Papers should be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for discussion.
Speculative Workshops
Abstracts for speculative workshops are invited from staff who wish to propose an idea they have for research in order to receive feedback on how it might be developed. Abstracts are particularly welcome from researchers early in their research journey or considering a change in research direction, and should be no more than 250 words (excluding references). Abstracts should make clear 1) how the research idea addresses the conference theme; 2) the proposed research question and context; and 3) specific areas in which feedback are sought. Please limit references to 5 key sources. Papers should be 10 minutes long with 20 minutes for discussion and feedback.
The Government’s proposed changes to the NQT process and the Early Career Framework as well as the Recruitment and Retention Strategy of 2019 reinforce the importance of research and evidence based pedagogical approaches Alongside these changes is an increased emphasis on the curriculum and talk based pedagogy. Increasing concerns are emerging relating to the importance of mental health and wellbeing, consideration of the needs of learners and what underlies specific kinds of behaviours and issues of subject knowledge.
Thursday 19th and Friday 20th September 2019
Abstracts were invited in the following areas or similar areas to these: