WEDNESDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2013
Theme: Widening Horizons – Linking Research, Policy and Practice across Scotland
1000-1030
REGISTRATION
Room 6 (TBC)
PRAC
Room1
ITE/CPD
Room2
LTA
Room3
PRACTITIONER STRAND
50:
LTA
Reading motivation
and engagement:
Implications for the
primary school
classroom
Sarah McGeown
S5:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC
Symposium: The Role of
Practice-based Research in
Qualifying Training for
Community Learning and
Development
Sue Mansfield
S5:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC:
Symposium: The Role of
Practice-based Research in
Qualifying Training for
Community Learning and
Development
Sue Mansfield
S5:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC:
Symposium: The Role of
Practice-based Research in
Qualifying Training for
Community Learning and
Development
Sue Mansfield
1030-1100
S6:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC
Accomplished
Teaching: Issues and
Approaches
Christine Forde
1100-1130
S6:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC
Accomplished
Teaching: Issues and
Approaches
Christine Forde
5:
LTA
A New Curriculum and
a New Vision of the
Teacher: A Critique of
Scottish Educational
Policy-making through
Two Case Studies
Alan Britton
22:
ITE/CPD
Initial Teacher
Education and the
university: retrieving
liberal education
Leonard Franchi
1130-1200
S6:
SYMPOSIUM
PRAC
Accomplished
Teaching: Issues and
Approaches
Christine Forde
27:
ITE/CPD:
Lifetime Teaching:
Developing and
evolving pedagogical
relationships
Morwenna Griffiths
1200-12.45
1300-1400
LUNCH
OPENING LECTURE: George Head
1:
LTA
An Evaluation of the
Effectiveness of
English Language
Assessment in Two
Colleges of Applied
Sciences in Oman
Fatma Al Hajri
63:
LTA
Modern Languages in
Scotland: Governing
Failure or Failing to
Govern?
Jim Scott
Room4
PRACTITIONER
STRAND
108:
PRAC
Developing Pupil Voice
through School Councils
Lesley Gordon
Room5
C&C
110:
An Exploration of
Mentoring in
Primary Schools in
Scotland
Jill Shimi
105:
PRAC
Should You Teach Old
Dogs New Tricks?
Cathy Francis
6:
Here's looking at
you kid? CCTV
technologies in
schools
Jane Brown
107:
PRAC
Engaging young people in
literacy through the
effective use of IT
Kevin Stelfox
67:
Scottish children at
school and at work:
A global
perspective
Amanda Simpson
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
Room 6
Room1
Room2
Room3
1400-1430
WORKSHOP
J Mowat to arrange
86:
ITE/CPD:
What do professional
learning policies say
about purposes of
teacher education?
Aileen Kennedy
S2:
SYMPOSIUM
LTA
Child Poverty and
School Education
Stephen McKinney
1430-1500
WORKSHOP
J Mowat to arrange
43:
ITE/CPD:
Teacher Career-long
Professional Learning:
Challenges and
Opportunities
Kay Livingston
S2:
SYMPOSIUM
LTA
Child Poverty and
School Education
Stephen McKinney
1500-15.30
32:
LTA
Assessing Enterprise
Education
Richard Holme
104:
PRAC
“Rights Respecting Schools
(RRS)”: How an initiative to
take forward Rights
Respecting Schools and
Pupil Voice was initiated
and implemented in a
primary school
Caroline Gibson
33:
ITE/CPD
Why I became a
lecturer…a study into the
factors that influenced three
early career lecturers to
make the move from
classroom to lecture
theatre, using a reflexive
biographical narrative
approach
Will Berry/Anna Robb
99:
PRAC
Grief and Loss Education –
Significant Loss: What
Children Tell Us
Mary Lappin
1530-16.00
TEA BREAK
S2:
SYMPOSIUM
LTA
Child Poverty and
School Education
Stephen McKinney
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
Room4
Room5
90:
Learner Identities Looking through the
Child's Lens
Mhairi Beaton
64:
CUR
Obstacles to Students
Learning Mathematics in
International Standard
Schools (ISS) in
Indonesia
Wahyu Setyaningrum
10:
CUR
Secondary teachers' and
pupils' experiences of
local outdoor learning in
Maths and Geography
Beth Christie
8:
Developments in
Social
Communication
using a Philosophy
with Children
Intervention
Claire Cassidy
16.00-16.30
16.30-1700
73:
LTA
Is there anybody
listening? High
school pupils’
perspectives on
school science
Tom Bryce
S3:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Thinking Dangerously
in Teacher Education:
Walking, Drawing and
Extending Sites for
Learning
Diarmuid McAuliffe
18:
LTA
A Study Into Global
Citizenship and
Sustainable
Development and its
Place in Early Years
Education
Brenda Dunn
100:
PRAC
The New Model of School
Experience at Glasgow
University: Lessons to be
Learned from Postgraduate
(PGDE) and the Way
Forward for Undergraduate
(BEd). Forging Effective
Partnership with Schools
and University
Moyra Boland
S3:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Thinking Dangerously
in Teacher Education:
Walking, Drawing and
Extending Sites for
Learning
Diarmuid McAuliffe
30:
LTA
Integrating Information
and Communication
Technologies (ICT)
into Early Childhood
Education (ECE):
Challenges for
effective
implementation
Nada Hammed
101:
PRAC
The domino effect’: a
career-long journey to
professional development
Theresa Campbell
1700-1800
STEC NETWORK LAUNCH
1800-1900
STEC BUFFET SUPPER
19.00
EVENING LECTURE: Guy Claxton (Chair: L Colucci-Gray)
95:
CUR
Mixing the personal, the
professional and the
curricular in Scottish
education policy: how and
why has Learning for
Sustainability come to be
part of the General
Teaching Council for
Scotland's (GTCS)
Revised Professional
Standards?
Hamish Ross
42:
CUR
Curriculum reform in
Tanzania: Global
influence and the policy
text production
Peter Kopweh
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
W25:
Performing Arts (in)
Education as/for
Social Justice and
Inclusion
Elisabeth Grace
W25:
Performing Arts (in)
Education as/for
Social Justice and
Inclusion
Elisabeth Grace
THURSDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2013
Theme: Widening Horizons – Linking Research, Policy and Practice Internationally
0900-1000
(Rooms and
Strands)
1000-1030
REGISTRATION
Room6
1030-1100
62:
ITE/CPD
Travelling Abroad: An
Investigation of
Scottish Student
Teachers' Perceptions
of an International
Experience
Ninetta Santoro
89:
CUR
Learning and health go
hand in hand': a critical
discourse analysis
exploring the links
between health and
wellbeing and learning
in Curriculum for
Excellence
Jenny Spratt
1100 – 1130
1130 – 1200
Room1
ITE/CPD
S1:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Teaching Scotland's
Future - advancing the
leadership agenda?
Marjory McMahon
Room2
ITE/CPD
29:
ITE/CPD
Teachers with
international
background crafting
their professional
identity
Hafdis Gudjonsdottir
Room3
LTA
53:
LTA
Global Storylines:
transformative, ecological
learning
Marie Jeanne McNaughton
Room4
LTA
36:
LTA
Using a Community of
Inquiry Framework to
identify critical thinking in
the context of problembased learning tutorials,
and the factors that
influence this
Susan Jamieson
Room5
SJ/INC
56:
"Welcome to the
Bad Boys Club":
How an intervention
to support children
and young people
with Social,
Emotional and
Behavioural
Difficulties (SEBD)
was experienced by
pupils
Joan Mowat
S1:
ITE/CPD
SYMPOSIUM
Teaching Scotland's
Future - advancing the
leadership agenda?
Marjory McMahon
40
ITE
Collaborative
supervision of masters
projects. Self study by
three University
Teachers in teacher
education
Karen Gislardfottir
54:
LTA
Global Citizenship: Does it
really change children's
attitudes
David Miller
39:
LTA
Development of
intermediate spaces for
innovation and
entrepreneurial education:
Collective teacher efficacy
and action competence in
rural Icelandic school
Svanborg Jonsdottir
47:
SJ/INC
Journeys of Hope:
Freirian Culture
Circles of Enquiry
Julie McAdam
S1:
ITE/CPD
SYMPOSIUM
Teaching Scotland's
Future - advancing the
leadership agenda?
Margery McMahon
72:
ITE/CPD
The relevance and
potential of visible
thinking to Malawian
primary schools
Margaret Kirkwood
12:
LTA
The Practice of Teaching
the Holocaust in the
Primary School
Paula Cowan
MORNING BREAK
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
38:
SJ/INC
Walking the
tightrope:
Disaffection, school
and the problem of
suitable education
Tara Jones
1200 – 1300
NISBET LECTURE: Graham Donaldson (Chair: S McKinney)
1300-1345
LUNCH
1345-1430
1430 - 1500
POSTER SESSION
S4:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Realising career-long
teacher education:
Mapping the issues
Christine Forde
65:
ITE/CPD
Relationship of some
demographic variables
with academic intrinsic
motivation of
prospective teachers
in Pakistan
Farah Shafiq
51:
LTA
Is an academy a place
where teacher agency can
flourish
Neal McGowan
102:
LTA
English as a Second
Language vs. Mother
Tongue: Some Competing
Discourses
Niaz Soomro
1500 – 1530
S4:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Realising career-long
teacher education:
Mapping the issues
Christine Forde
44:
LTA
The Socratic Method and
Critical Thinking in the
Philosophy of Education
James MacGregor
15:
LTA
A case-based reasoning
approach to pupils'
engagement in socioscientific inquiry
Stephen Day
1530 - 1600
S4:
SYMPOSIUM
ITE/CPD
Realising career-long
teacher education:
Mapping the issues
Christine Forde
112
ITE/CPD
POET: Researching
Educational
transitions: an
International
collaboration between
five countries
Aline-Wendy Dunlop
9:
ITE/CPD
Teachers and Media
Information Literacy
Ralph Catts
103
LTA
Learning for Sustainability
and Nature Connectedness
across Disciplines in Higher
Education.
Donald Gray and Laura
Colucci-Gray
2:
LTA
Exploring children's
conceptual understanding
of astronomy: A social
learning perspective
Fayadh Alanazi
1600 - 1630
AFTERNOON BREAK
1630 - 1730
AGM
19.00
CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND DINNER (TBC after-dinner speaker) BRISARD PRESENTATION (I Menter)
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
91:
SJ/INC
Creating
transformative
learning
environments for
New Arrival
children
Eddie Morrison
16:
SJ/INC
The Impact of
Migrant Children in
Glasgow Schools
Stephen Dillon
FRIDAY 22nd November 2013
Theme: Widening Horizons – Scottish Research is a Global Context
(Rooms and
Strands)
0900-0930
0930 - 1000
1000 - 1030
Room6
SJ/INC
Room2
ITE/CPD
Room3
PCE
Room4
SJ/INC
Room5
RESEARCH
13:
PCE
Internationalising the higher
education practitioner
Jeannie Daniels
45:
SJ/INC
Developing symbolic play
for children with autism
using a joint-play
intervention
Helen Marwick
24:
RESEARCH
Influencing policy
through educational
research activism
Donald Gillies
REGISTRATION
116:
INC
Greece: Case studies
of three Greek lower
secondary schools in
the Western suburbs
of Athens
Dimitra Tsakolou
70:
ITE/CPD:
The Shifting
Discourses of
Educational
Leadership
Dee Torrance
98:
SJ/INC
A Study of Inclusive
Education in China
Liu Jiani
69:
ITE/CPD:
Learning to be a
professional learning
community: The
journey of one
compulsory school in
Iceland
Birna Maria
Svanbjornsdottir
88:
ITE/CPD
Preparing teachers for
inclusive education:
Scotland's Inclusive
Practice Project
Jenny Spratt
58:
PCE
Instructional Rounds: how
the Scottish experience can
inform the international
debate
Carey Philpott
66:
ITE/CPD
Teachers as learners
in Malta and Scotland
Rachel Shanks
57:
ITE/CPD:
Capacity development:
supporting lifelong
learners towards
meaningful progress
and self reliance
Nancy Njiraini
19:
PCE
Widening international
horizons in Scottish
Universities: Exploring
current challenges of
internationalisation
Scotland
Omolabake Fakunle
1030 - 1100
1100 – 1130
Room1
ITE/CPD
87:
ITE/CPD
School Direct: what is
the design
underpinning this
approach to teacher
training?
Ali Messer
MORNING BREAK
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
26:
RESEARCH
Students as
research
participants: an
exploration of
ethics
Laura Graham
28:
SJ/INC
The Lego Play Approach
and the Development of
Social Skills in Children
on the Autistic Spectrum
June Grindley
74:
RESEARCH
Sustainability
Education
Implementation
Questionnaire
(SEIQ)
Audur Palsdottir
1130 – 1200
1200 – 1230
92:
SJ/INC
Catholic schools and
sectarianism: A
comparison between
Northern Ireland and
Scotland
Stephen McKinney
109:
ITE/CPD
A’ Jock Tamson’s
Bairns?
Mary Welsh
60:
ITE/CPD:
Developing
Partnership through
Paired Placements
Lesley Reid
23:
PCE
Critical thinking:
Educational challenges and
possibilities
John Garrity
1230-1300
35:
37:
48:
SJ/INC
ITE/CPD:
71:
PCE
Focus on Alcohol
Professional Learning
ITE/CPD:
Researching retention in
Angus: Angus Alcohol
from a Complexity
Clinical approaches to
FE: developing resilience
and Drugs Partnership
Perspective
school experience
Barbara McCabe
– a high school alcohol
Mike Jess
during initial teacher
and media literacy
education: the student
partnership
experience
George Head
Delia Wilson
WERA LECTURE: Professor Ninetta Santoro, University of Strathclyde (Chair: J Mowat)
1300-1400
LUNCH
1400 - 1430
75:
CUR
Teacher efficacy and
sustainability
education: some
findings from a survey
in Iceland
Allyson Macdonald
7:
ITE/CPD
Primary Teachers:
Curricular Change
Agents
Nicola Carse
41:
C&C
Teaching as a
Relational Activity
Sarah Kearns
68:
PCE
Developing Models for
University-Schools
Engagement (MUSE)
Geri Smyth
34:
SJ/INC
Retrospective: Learner
identity and inclusive
pedagogy
Angela Jaap
3:
RESEARCH
The role of Social
Theory in
Constructing a
Research Model
Marion Allison
46:
SJ/INC
Developments in the
expressive language of
young children with
autism through
participation in joint play
engagement
Lorna Johnson
94:
RESEARCH
Analysing
international survey
data - experiences
and achievements
in mathematics and
science education
Tom MacIntyre
111:
SJ/INC
Experiences and attitudes
of preschool staff working
with young children with
SEN
Jonina Saemundsdottir
11:
RESEARCH
Yearning to Earn or
Yearning to Learn?
Mobilising the
Bourdieusian
Concepts of
Habitus and Capital
in the Analysis of
Students'
Expectations,
Experiences and
Aspirations in
Higher Education
Geraldine Clark
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
1430 - 1500
14:
CUR
Between the swing of
content and process:
exploring the role of
‘place’ in learning
Kirsten Darling
21:
ITE/CPD:
Preparing teachers to
be agents of change:
Some theoretical and
practical
considerations
Lani Florian
52:
ITE/CPD
Engagement by
stealth: inducting the
disengaged
professional in online
learning
Aileen McGuigan
1500-1600
AFTERNOON TEA AND SERA LECTURE: Ian Menter (CHAIR: A-W Dunlop)
1600
CLOSE and WINE RECEPTION
SERA 2013 20th – 22nd NOVEMBER 2013 at the University of Glasgow
55:
SJ/INC
Scottish inclusive
education through the
lens of complexity theory
Stella Mouroutsou
59:
RESEARCH
The possibilities
and challenges of
participative
dialogue for
developing
academic literacies
with older adults in
Higher Education in
Scotland
Grace Poulter