Seminar Series 2006/7

Here you will find a list of all Seminars that were held at the School in the 2006/7 academic year.

Seminars for the 2007/8 academic year. are held on a separate page.

Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term

Date, Time & Venue	Name	Title of Seminar
*Autumn Term*
10/10/2006 G18 5pm	Professor Rupert Wegerif University of Exeter	Dialogic, Education and Technology: Expanding the Space of Learning
18/10/2006 12:30 SC15	Professor Alex Kozulin Institute for the Development of Human Potential, Jerusalem	Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Educational Problems of the 21st Century
24/10/2006 G18 5pm	Professor Robin Mason The Open University	Staff Development and Online Learning
07/11/2006 G18 5pm	Professor Julian Elliott Durham University	Dyslexia: Diagnoses, Debates and Diatribes
21/11/2006 G18 5pm	Professor Wendy Robinson University of Exeter	Power to Teach: Past and Present Perspectives on Learning Through Practice
5/12/2006 G18 5pm	Professor Miriam Zukas University of Leeds	Poor relations: exploring discipline, research and pedagogy in academic identity
12/12/2006 BC114 5pm	Dr Eva Vass University of Otago New Zealand	Emotion and reason in collaborative knowledge building – ‘I have every faith in us all’
Spring Term
16/01/2007 G18 5pm	Professor Bob Burden, Dr Phil Bayliss, Dr Janet Draper, Dr Angela Horton and Mr Will Taylor University of Exeter	Researching the Mongolian Experience
30/01/2007 BC114 5pm	Professor John Furlong University of Oxford	The Social Organisation of Educational Research in England
06/02/07 BC220 12.30pm	Dr David Hyerle New Hampshire, USA	An introduction to the application of visual tools for learning
13/02/2007 BC114 5pm	Professor Becky Francis Roehampton University	The political discourse of educational achievement, and its production of 'underachievers' Second Handout - Heroes or zones? The discursive positioning of 'underachieving boys' in English neo-liberal education policy
27/02/2007 BC114 5pm	Ms Katherine Runswick- Cole University of Sheffield	"The Tribunal was the most stressful thing: more stressful than my son’s diagnosis or behaviour": the experiences of families who go to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDisT)
13/03/2007 BC114 5pm	Professor John Field University of Stirling	"The social contexts of learning transitions: agency, identity and the life course"
*Summer Term*
24/04/2007 G18 5pm	Professor Alison Fuller University of Southampton	Mid-Life Transitions to Higher Education: Developing a multi-level explanation of increasing participation
8/05/2007 BC114 5pm	Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Flora Macleod, Dr Paul Lambe & Dr Michael Tedder University of Exeter	Combining Methodologies to Study Learning in the Life Course: Insights from the Learning Lives Project
10/05/2007 G18 1 pm Additional Lunch-time Seminar	Professor, Academician Jadambaa Badrakh, Rector of the Mongolian State University of Education	An "Eternal Heaven", a concept of educational development Contextual Notes
22/05/2007 G18 5pm	Professor Bridget Somekh Manchester Metropolitan University	Engaging with Innovative ICT Pedagogies: Learning from Intervention
12/06/2007 G18 5pm	Professor Andrew Stables University of Bath	'Living and Learning as Semiotic Engagement'
26/06/2007 G18 5pm	Professor Michael Eraut Institute of Sussex Sussex University	Theoretical and practical knowledge revisited