SERA 2015 Conference Programme
WEDNESDAY 18th NOVEMBER 2015
Theme: Education as (if) the whole earth mattered
9.30-10.30
REGISTRATION (Foyer) with Tea/coffee in MR028 CPD suite
(Rooms and
Strands)
1045-1100
Room 1
MR027
Welcome (MR028 CPD suite)
1100-1200
KEYNOTE: Tim Ingold (MR051 Lecture theatre) - Anthropology and the Education of Attention
1215 -1330
LUNCH (CPD suite)
1330-1400
75
Rachel Shanks
Purpose, planning and passion: the
3 Ps needed for successful
partnership and policy initiatives
Symposium S002
Cate Watson
oPENing critical spaces
for professional learning:
developing and
researching spaces for
online learning
1400-1430
72
Fiona Copland
Education for the whole earth:
what can we learn from the global
spread of English?
1430-15.00
83
Anna Beck
The Rise of For-profit Provision in
Scottish Higher Education: Backdoor Privatisation?
Symposium S002
Cate Watson
oPENing critical spaces
for professional learning:
developing and
researching spaces for
online learning
Symposium S002
Cate Watson
oPENing critical spaces
for professional learning:
developing and
researching spaces for
online learning
1500-15.30
TEA BREAK (CPD Suite)
Room 2
MR317
Room 3
MR265
Room 4
MR613
29
Jacinta Birchley
What if this were my child.
An exploration of teachers
experiences of the
corporate parent role
46
Stephen McKinney
Got to keep searching. Do
we need religious
education in Scotland in the
21st century?
Room 5
MR614
Symposium S006
Gabrielle Ivinson
Education and poverty in
times of austerity
9
Carolyn Cooke
Teaching as performance:
music student teacher’s
perceptions of pedagogy
Symposium S006
Gabrielle Ivinson
Education and poverty in
times of austerity
70
Bethan Mitchell
Performing practice: acting
out actor-network theory
to reconceptualise
professional learning
Symposium S006
Gabrielle Ivinson
Education and poverty in
times of austerity
Room 6
MR029
27
Guðlaug Erlendsdóttir
Is participating in an
educational project
beneficial for all
stakeholders: teachers'
voices from the Chimbende
Primary School in Malawi
49
Mishel Moriah
School Leadership and
Inclusive Education in the
Caribbean
07
Evelyn Corrado
Challenging Negative
Perceptions towards the
African Child
1530-1600
Pecha Kucha
76
PK001 - Fiona McGarry
Rachel Shanks
PK002 – Merrin Evergreen
Massive Open Online
Courses and Community
Learning and
Development: Open
Education and
Community Educators
PK003 – Paola Sangster
PK004 – Marie Dey
1600-1630
Workshop W004
Sarah Cornelius
Learning from the
massive: the wider
impact of MOOCs on
teaching and learning
16.30-1700
17.30-1800
Symposium S003
Nikki Gauld
Education as if Research
Mattered
Symposium S004
Stephen McKinney
Poverty and School Education
44
Stephanie DeMarco
The Hidden Curriculum of
Private Language Schools:
Observations on the Social
Positioning of privilege in
the classroom
78
George Head
Schools, Political Literacy
and the 2014 Scottish
Referendum
Symposium S003
Nikki Gauld
Education as if Research
Mattered
Symposium S004
Stephen McKinney
Poverty and School Education
67
Svanborg Jonsdottir
Crossing boundaries with
Innovation and
entrepreneurial education
3 minute thesis competition:
Workshop W004
80
Symposium S003
Symposium S004
Leanne Mattu
Sarah Cornelius
Denise Mifsud
Jennifer Obbard
Learning from the
massive: the wider
impact of MOOCs on
teaching and learning
Policy enactment across
hierarchical leadership
strata: A case of global
policy shaping educational
actors' response at the local
level
Nikki Gauld
Education as if Research
Mattered
Stephen McKinney
Poverty and School Education
Kate Martin
1700-1730
18
Angela Scollan
The implications of the
‘Children and Families Act
2014’ for Early Years
Provision and professionals.
A case study research
NETWORK (CPD suite)
Poverty and Education – Stephen
McKinney
NETWORK (CPD suite)
LiSEN – Leadership in School
Education Network –
Joan Mowat
1830
DRINKS RECEPTION: Floor 7 Hosted by Aberdeen University, School of Education
KEY
Social Justice and Inclusion
Professional and Vocational Learning
Policy and Education
Curriculum and Assessment
Digital Learning
Innovative Research Methods
THURSDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2015
Theme: Education as (if) the whole earth mattered
0830-0930
(Rooms and
Strands)
0930-1000
REGISTRATION (Foyer) and Tea/Coffee in CPD suite
Room 1
MR303
69
Susi Peacock
Reflectively pursuing deep
learning in a private sanctuary:
an enhancement to the
Community of Inquiry
Framework supporting online
learning in professional
programmes
1000-1030
1030-1100
Room 2
MR101
24
Eddie Beggan
How do creative arts and music
help with young peoples’
educational development in a
digital media environment?
Room 3
MR310
Symposium S005
Room 4
MR029
Room 5
MR614
Symposium S010
Room 6
MR314
Room 7
MR027
Workshop W008
Anna Beck
Aline-Wendy Dunlop
Mark Murphy
Don’t Waste Our Future!
A disappearing
workforce: who are they
and what do they do?
Exploring the roles and
contributions of GTCSregistered teachers
working in prior to school
settings in Scotland
Using Social
Theory in
Educational
Research: The art
of application
11
Fiona McGarry
Story Teaches You
Things
Symposium S010
Workshop W008
Aline-Wendy Dunlop
Mark Murphy
A disappearing
workforce: who are they
and what do they do?
Exploring the roles and
contributions of GTCSregistered teachers
working in prior to school
settings in Scotland
Using Social
Theory in
Educational
Research: The art
of application
28
Hannah James
Developing Primary
Education Students’
Scientific Literacy
through Case-based
Reasoning
Symposium S010
Workshop W009
Aline-Wendy Dunlop
Stephen
McKinney
The essential
guide to
Publishing for the
research student
Workshop 26
Gameli Tordzro
Innovative Research
Methods
Symposium S005
Workshop 26
Gameli Tordzro
Innovative Research
Methods
Symposium S005
Anna Beck
Don’t Waste Our Future!
Anna Beck
Don’t Waste Our Future!
A disappearing
workforce: who are they
and what do they do?
Exploring the roles and
contributions of GTCSregistered teachers
working in prior to school
settings in Scotland
1100 – 1130
1130 – 1200
61
Eddy Moran
Thoughtful Combinations:
Implications of Research on
Post-Graduate Students’
Perceptions of Social Inclusion
and Teacher Authority when
Using Online Video Tutorials in
Blended Delivery in Higher
Education
MORNING BREAK (CPD suite)
1200 – 1300
KEYNOTE Chris Chapman (MR051 Lecture theatre) - Rethinking Educational Change: Harnessing the power of collaboration?
1300-1345
LUNCH (CPD suite)
1345-1415
PK22
53
David Watt
Ingolfur Johannesson
Is it Who You Are
Academic action for
sustainability education
and the political
conjuncture of
opportunities in Iceland in
2007–2011
1415 - 1445
57
Catriona Oates
Methodological difficulties
in research: accessing
schools as sites of research
79
Svanborg Jonsdottir
Creating meaningful online
learning in teacher education
39
Nafla Ahbabi
Self Evaluation for school
improvement: reframing
the debate upon
accountability in Abu Dhabi
secondary schools
12
Adel Bawazeer
Teachers and Students
Engagement in Dialogue:
The Development of
Religious Education
Classroom Activities in
Saudi Universities
40
Olaya Alvarez-Garcia
Environmental
competencies of preservice teachers in relation
with their environmental
behaviour: a case study in
two Spanish Universities
77
Brian Hudson
Studying Mathematics
Teachers' Assessment
Practices: Implications for
Teacher Education Policy
and Practice in Ghana
05
Carey Philpott
Medical Models for
Teachers’
Professional
Learning: asking for
a second opinion
32
Jill Shimi
Knowledge
Transfer: Exploring
the Issues for Social
Work Child
Protection
Practitioners and in
Primary Education
Workshop W009
Stephen
McKinney
The essential
guide to
Publishing for the
research student
59
Stella Mouroutsou
Behaviour support in
mainstream schools:
teachers' and pupils'
perceptions
74
Gabrielle Ivinson
A live
demonstration of
Sharing Learning
Spaces through
Technologyenhanced
Professional
Learning
56
10
Karolina Gombert
Fiona McGarry
Story In the
Classroom:
Teacher v Pupil
Perspectives
Foodways and
Futures
Health Promotion
versus Lived
Experiences. Where
does food figure in
the lives of so called
vulnerable young
people in Scotland?
1445-1500
AFTERNOON BREAK (MR028 CPD suite)
1500 - 1600
KEYNOTE: Tara Fenwick (MR051 Lecture theatre) - Matters of professional responsibility for hopeful futures – Sponsored by The General Teaching Council for Scotland
(Rooms and
Strands)
1600 - 1630
Room 1
MR315
64
60
Room 3
MR310
Round Table RT001
Gabrielle Ivinson
Evelyn Cook
Katy Vigurs
Helen Martin
Deleuzian concepts as
tools for researching
children’s experiences
Children's Mathematical
Reasoning: Scottish schools and
the state of play
The present
situation and
challenges for
education policy
in Nordic welfare
states
Annette Moir
How to Engage a Range of
Education Stakeholders in the
Pursuit of Social Justice for
Children and Young People?
A story of research-informed
blogging and the production
of an alternative policy
manifesto
P002
90
20
NERA S008
47
Khristin Fabian
Stephen Edgar
Catriona Macdonald
Tracey Hughes
Student Perception on the Use of
Mobile Technologies for
Mathematics
Knowledge into Action –
applying an evidence based
model to Education
Scotland’s national
improvement remit
Valuing Diversity, Developing
Flexibility: teachers' understanding of
children's mathematical thinking
The present
situation and
challenges for
education policy
in Nordic welfare
states
6
16
NERA S008
35
Ian Matheson
Paul Argyle McDonald
Turning point – the
transformation of the
General Teaching Council for
Scotland
An investigation of teachers’ beliefs
about mathematical problem solving
and problem posing within the
Curriculum for Excellence
The present
situation and
challenges for
education policy
in Nordic welfare
states
Leon Robinson
The unappealing smells of
sacrifice – values,
sustainability and
education
The Technology-enhanced
Professional Learning (TePL): the
emergence of the hybrid
pedagogue
1630-1700
1700-1730
1730 – 1815
Room 2
MR101
Room 4
MR029
52
AGM (MR028 CPD suite)
1900 for 1930
ends 2100
CONFERENCE BUFFET with Musical accompaniment: Town Hall, Aberdeen City. Hosted by Aberdeen City Council
KEY
Social Justice and Inclusion
Professional and Vocational Learning
Policy and Education
Curriculum and Assessment
Digital Learning
Innovative Research Methods
Room 5
MR614
NERA S008
Room 6
MR314
62
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail
my ship
Exploring schools that
exceed expectations
FRIDAY 20th November 2015
Theme: Education as (if) the whole earth mattered
(Rooms and
Strands)
Room 1
MR027
Room 2
MR304
0900-0930
REGISTRATION Foyer) and Tea/coffee in CPD suite
0930 - 1000
65
Sarah Kearns
Exploring the
significance of an adult
attachment lens within
pre-service teacher
education
37
85
Audur Palsdottir
The angry student: How
students influence what
and how they learn – an
example from HE
30
Jakob Billmayer
Subject and Class
Teachers' Classroom
Management. An
Exploratory Study in Four
Teachers' Classrooms in
Bavaria
31
Jennifer Farrar
Border-crossing with
pupils and parents:
innovating research
methods across the
home-school ‘divide’
1000 - 1030
1030 - 1100
Maria Imperiale
Breaking the siege:
developing online critical
participatory action
research with English
teachers in Gaza Strip,
Palestine
Room 3
MR310
Room 4
84
Allyson MacDonald
I am an island” – dilemmas in
assessment in sustainability
education
21
Daisy Nwaozuzu
How has the infusion and
explicit use of ICT in schools
impacted on skill
development for post
school transitions: A
qualitative account of
Scottish teachers and pupils
04
Sudeshna Lahiri
Assessment of assessors
when teachers are
evaluated: Relationship
with Occupational Variables
Symposium S001
Do Coyle
Symposium S001
Innovative approaches
for deepening
professional plurilingual
learning in tertiary
education
33
Karen Lowing
The Tartan Elephant in
the Room: Scots
Language, Social Class
and Identity in Scotland’s
Classrooms
41
Paul Adams
Why data might be
wickedly important
Symposium S001
Innovative approaches
for deepening
professional plurilingual
learning in tertiary
education
25
Federico Farini
Challenges,
opportunities, risks and
hopes. Making the voice
of non-English speaking
children stronger in Early
Years provision
48
Claire Ramjan
Using Citizen Science to
engage Secondary School
pupils in practical ecology
54
Anna Walshe
Curriculum development for
an unpredictable future
MR613
Room 5
MR614
Innovative approaches
for deepening
professional plurilingual
learning in tertiary
education
Room 6
MR029
08
Antony Luby
Aberdeen Quines and
Loons bletherin’ aboot
religion: an exploration of
social cohesion
1100 – 1130
MORNING BREAK (MR028 CPD suite)
1130 – 1230
1245-1330
KEYNOTE: Do Coyle (MR028 CPD suite) - Education because the whole Earth matters: Reconceptualising dialogic spaces, learning places and meaningful pedagogies
LUNCH with Posters (MR028 CPD Suite)
Room 7
MR317
1330-1400
93
Julie McAdam
Artefacts of Value:
Building Communities
81
Tom Bryce
Manipulating models and
grasping ideas which they
represent
45
Stephen Day
Fostering Primary Education
Students’ Socio-scientific
Reasoning through Dialogue
within a Virtual Learning
Environment
1400-1430
13
Donatella Camedda
Understanding
inclusion. Teachers
inclusive attitudes
between values and
practice
50
Katja Frimberger
Bodily poeticising in
intercultural education
research: A reflection on
the role and value of
'estranged' drama
methods
Workshop W002
Elizabeth Lasley
Project-based Learning as an
Instructional Model in Higher
Education
43
Soumi Dey
Empathy in a
multicultural world:
Lessons learnt from
picturebooks in a primary
classroom
1430-1500
1500-1530
CLOSE (MR028 CPD Suite)
KEY
Social Justice and Inclusion
Professional and Vocational Learning
Policy and Education
Curriculum and Assessment
Digital Learning
Innovative Research Methods
55
Beverley Ferguson
How does policy
implemented at a local
level impact on the ability
of schoolgirl
mothers/mothers-to-be to
continue in education and
lifelong learning?
91
Jonathan Firth
How can education in the
social sciences prepare
young people for major
societal changes
Symposium S007
Margery McMahon
Raising Attainment: the
critical role of
leadership
82
Patrick Bonvin
Collaboration between
regular and special teachers
in inclusive settings:
Interrelationships between
research, practice, and
teacher education
Symposium S007
Margery McMahon
Raising Attainment: the
critical role of
leadership
Workshop W002
23
Symposium S007
71
Jo Ailwood
Preservice teacher
biographies: exploring the
educational aspirations of
students participating in the
National Exceptional
Teachers for Disadvantaged
Schools project
01
Elizabeth Lasley
Project-based Learning as an
Instructional Model in Higher
Education
Donna Dey
Margery McMahon
Raising Attainment: the
critical role of
leadership
Health and wellbeing - a
responsibility for all
teachers: Analysis of
teachers’ professional
practice and learners’ wider
achievements in Scottish
secondary schools
Chris Holligan
Children in care and secure as
research participants: An
Actor-network theorisation of
the perspective of these
marginalised children about
government led research
methodologies used to
measure their progression in
the systems