PhD Research Event 23-24 October 2015
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Friday 23 October
9am – 5pm
VENUE:
HUMA Seminar room, Neville Alexander building, level 4
Time
9.00 - 10.45
Session
Shut up and Write! Thula Ubhale
Chair
Carolyn McKinney
Tea/Coffee 10.45 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.30
Catching up: Students to report on progress
and challenges in their research since June.
11.30 – 12.00
PhD Journey: Cheng-Wen Huang
Cheng-Wen graduated in June this year & will
share aspects of her experience with us
PhD Proposal Presentation
Robyn Tyler
Translanguaging for thematic development in
a bilingual primary Science classroom
Lunch 13.00 – 14.00
12.00- 13.00
14.00 – 15.00
Postgraduate writing: giving or silencing
student voices?
Profs Linda Cooper & Lucia Thesen
15.00 – 15.30
Work in progress presentation
Rene Toerien
Does teaching experience really matter? The
Role of Significant Events in the Development
of Teachers’ Topic Specific Pedagogical
Content Knowledge
Carolyn McKinney
Coffee/tea 15.30- 15.45
15.45- 16.15
16.15 – 17.15
Work in progress presentation
Nicky Wolmarans
Grappling with analysis: the challenge of
coding real data”
PhD Proposal Presentation
Des Hugo
Reggio inspired practice in three early
childhood education centres in Kagiso,
Mogale City in Gauteng
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Saturday 24 October 9.00am-13.00
Venue:
HUMA Seminar room, Neville Alexander building, level 4
Time
9.00-10.00
Session
Writing for publication & designing a publication
strategy for your PhD
Carolyn McKinney
10.00 -10.30 Tea/Coffee
10.30 – 11.30
PhD Proposal presentation –
Xolisa Guzula
Exploring translanguaging and multiliteracies
pedagogies in the third space as alternatives to
monomodal and monolingual approaches to
language and literacy teaching
PhD Proposal presentation –
Sashni Chetty
First-year residential students’ access of tutoring
systems to support their learning: a Communities
of Practice perspective
Work in progress presentation
Matumo Ramafikeng
Students' negotiation of practice education in
Occupational Therapy: A qualitative case study.
11.30 – 12.30
12.30 – 13.00
13.00
Chair
Closing
Session descriptions - incomplete
Shut up and write! Thula Ubhale
See: https://thulawrite.wordpress.com/
Shut up and write turns writing from a solitary, to a social experience. Simply put,
we get together and write. We use the pomodoro technique and write in three
25min sprints with brief breaks in between <http://pomodorotechnique.com/>.
Rules are silence and no emails, social media, phones etc during the 25min periods
of writing. You can be working on any kind of academic writing – abstracts,
proposals, chapters, data analysis, articles etc.
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