2017 Annual Conference
13th Annual International Conference Liverpool Hope University Education as a collaborative process Early Career Researchers Event: 28 June 2017 Main Conference: 29–30 June 2017
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
Conference Year 2017
The 13th Annual Conference of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), 29–30 June
Doctor Colette Gray
Dr Colette Gray BSSc. PhD. PGCHET. C’Psychol. AFBPsS. FHEA. AMRSM is a Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her specialist teaching areas are children’s cognitive development and research methods. Until recently she…
Professor Geoff Whitty
Geoff Whitty was Director of the Institute of Education, University of London from 2000 to 2010, having previously served as its Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education from 1992. He is widely credited with leading the Institute to new…
Professor Alison Cook-Sather
Alison Cook-Sather is the Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Her research focuses on how differently positioned participants in education can work…
The effects of setting and mixed ability grouping on pupils’ mathematical self-perception and attainment in year four.
There is considerable literature debating the positive and negative effects of setting on the mathematical self-concept of pupils. From a practitioner’s perspective the research findings are thought provoking as Muijs and Reynolds (2011) suggest setting has the potential to harm…
Disabled Student’s perspectives of Learning Development provision. What we have and what we could have?
Inclusive education is a major area of theory and research in Education Studies. The idea of Universal Design is to take into account the needs of all people in the design process. It was originally developed for products and environments…
SYMPOSIUM: Pushing forward with new knowledge at Undergraduate level: Exceptional Student Dissertations.
In this symposium two undergraduate students from Plymouth University talk about the origins of their third year research enquiries, the theories that shaped them, and their findings. In addition, both students will discuss their experiences of how their work is…
SYMPOSIUM: Dissolving the boundaries: the challenges of developing collaborations and reciprocity in practice
In this symposium we will explore the process of education as both a collaborative and a creative process. As academics on a youth work and community work programme we work closely with a broad range of community partners, but does…
Symposium-‘Learning Through Manual Labour in Schools’
This symposium is focused on the relationship between education and work, specifically the relation between learning and collaborative forms of manual labour. The participants in this symposium neither share the same perspective in terms of how they envision work being…
Prescription through Profiling, Profiling through Prescription – Inspection, Effectiveness and the Struggle for Recognition in Teaching and Learning
This paper discusses the acts of profiling that occur in teacher inspection, wherein which an “ideal” teacher is posited in accordance with specific, externally established criteria for good teaching. This is a global phenomenon, but for the purposes of this…
Exploring the ethics of agency through the lens of ‘Bildung.’
Experiencing something of a renaissance, the German pedagogical idea of ‘Bildung’ has recently been reconsidered for contemporary education. Most significantly, Bildung’s movement of interplay between self and other has been evaluated philosophically and proposed as an effective learning tool (2003…
Toward an Understanding of Discourses Surrounding Education Studies
This proposed paper explores how the changing nature of the subject of education studies is constituted by an amalgam of policies, pedagogies, political ideologies and wider global pressures on systems of education, which demand competitiveness and versatility on the subject.…