2018 Annual Conference
14th Annual International Conference University of Bolton Internationalisation and collaboration: ‘Values and value in globalised education’ Main Conference: 28–29 June 2018 Early Career Researchers Event: 27th June 2018
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
Conference Year 2018
The 14th Annual Conference of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), 27–29 June
Doctor Sam Sellar
Reader in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor Carol McGuinness
Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Queen’s College, University of Belfast
Doctor Karen Pashby
Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the Department of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies and the Education and Social Research Institute
Professor David Hopkins
Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Bolton and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Education, University College London and the University of Nottingham
Resistance in Academic Becomings: a diffractive analysis of resistance in student language encounters in UK masters level learning
The paper reports on an on-going study examining masters-level students grappling with academic language, and their resulting ‘becomings’ in academic roles through classroom language encounters. The novel methodology utilises various Deleuzian concepts diffractively (Barad, 2007; Lenz Taguchi, 2012) to provoke…
Don’t hate the player… hate the game! How our different conceptions of an academic professional identity can influence our perceptions of the REF and TEF
Research and teaching metrics loom large over the landscape of UK higher education. Measurements of research and teaching quality are not exactly new in UK HE but it is hard to find many parallels with the level of reform to…
Managing Alternative Higher Education Providers: Towards a conceptual model of management for collaborative HE provision?
Changes in funding arrangements for UK Higher Education provision, has seen a marked increase in the number of Alternative Providers (AP’s). Fielden and Middlehurst (2017) cite BIS statistics to report Alternative Providers of Higher Education rose from 670 in 2013…
Exploring values through Holocaust education: reflections on a teaching and learning experience with Primary School children
This paper considers how the values of meaning, identity and remembering might be developed through learning about the Holocaust. As well as describing personal experiences of a visit to the world heritage sites of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps,…
The Educational Mission of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Bangladesh, 1947-2017
The Congregation of Holy Cross has been working on evangelization and education in Bangladesh for more than 160 years. However, over the years particularly from 1947 to 2017, there have been many changes – internal and external – to Holy…
SYMPOSIUM: The reach, the scope and the possibility for student-engagement
This symposium aims to elaborate on three aspects of student-engagement/student-as-partners agendas. Within a globalised, neo-liberal economy education itself has become subject to market-forces, leaving students as being perceived and perceiving themselves as ‘customers’. By developing three perspectives we aim to…
International perspectives on Equity
Many countries are considering how their education systems can be a vehicle for developing more just, fair and equal societies. Across the globe, we are asking what role schools have to play in developing equity for the citizens of its…