Department of Education Public Seminars
By Oxford University
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Description
Public seminars from the Department of Education. Oxford has been making a major contribution to the field of education for over 100 years and today this Department has a world class reputation for research, for teacher education and for its Masters and doctoral programmes. Our aim is to provide an intellectually rich but supportive environment in which to study, to research and to teach and, through our work, to contribute to the improvement of all phases of public education, both in the UK and internationally.
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Religion and belief in Britain: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life | Dr Edward Kessler, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 7th November 2016. Religion and belief are driving forces in society today. Although there is some divergence of opinion over the extent, t | 8 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Does market competition and/or the growth of participation foster diversity in higher education systems? | Professor Simon Marginson, ULC Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. This seminar returns to a long-standing issue in the literature on higher education systems, that of the relationship, if any, bet | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Education in divided societies: The role of school collaboration | Professor Tony Gallagher, University of Belfast, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 24th October 2016. Mass education has traditionally been used as an integrating force, perhaps most notably in the role of the public | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making use of international large- scale assessment data in national contexts: PIRLS for Teachers | Dr Therese N Hopfenbeck, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 17th October 2016. Co-written with Dr Jenny Lenkeit More information is available here; http://oucea.education.ox.ac.uk/resea | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Can We Learn from students' reports of their secondary school experiences and their role in shaping academic outcomes at GCSE? | This lecture discusses the development of various measures of students experiences and views of their secondary schools based on self report questionnaires taken at ages 14 & 16. | 2 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Promoting quality in education: A dynamic approach to school improvement | Professor Leonidas Kyriakides, Department of Education, University of Cyprus, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. This lecture refers to the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) which attempts to contribute to th | 9 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Closing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational research | Dr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series. Abstract: During 2012, the National College for Teaching and | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The scare tactic: Does it work? Motivating students for test and examinations | Professor David Putwain (Edge Hill University) gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. A relatively common motivational strategy used by teachers, and others, prior to high-stakes examinations (such as the GCSE), is to commun | 20 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment. | Seminar looking at education in Sudan and other North African countries. This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study. We know that National Learning Assessments can play | 12 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital age | Professor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ work and | 5 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parenting support Evidence, policy and practice | Professor Geoff Lindsay, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. Abstract: 'In this talk I shall draw upon two large scale studies of parenting programmes to explore two issues: evidence for their effe | 28 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Assessment and learning: Fields Apart? | Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Department of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Seminar series on 19th October 2015. Co-written by Professor David Andrich. Introduced by Dr Therese Hopfenbeck. Educational assessments define what it means | 22 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Design and practice: a study of the design, build and occupation of new schools | Prof. Harry Daniels & Hau Ming Tse present an account of ways in which the discourses and practices of school design produce educational spaces which mediate and shape the discourses and practices of teaching and learning when the building is occupied. | 22 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Questioning the UK government’s vision of higher education and social mobility | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Susan James Relly, Assistant Director of SKOPE. Over recent years UK governments have expanded higher education and with it the supply of graduates. This expansion is linked to social mobili | 9 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Kind of Learning do we want? 21st Century Learning, the Standards Agenda and Expert Learners | How can we help students move from being novices to proficient apprentices to experts in the domain? Emeritis Professor of Education, Professor Gordon Stobart, lectures on the international policy rhetoric surrounding the need for 21st century learning. | 8 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Predictability in High-Stakes Assessment: Students’ Approach to Learning | This study investigated the predictability of the Leaving Certificate examination in Ireland, where public accusations of predictable exams are of serious concern. The data combined survey responses of students' views of the examination, learning strat | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Does being in care provide protection or increase risk? Understanding the outcomes of children in care | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Janet Boddy, University of Sussex and Professor Donald Forrester, University of Bedfordshire. Professor Janet Boddy will talk about the European Perspectives on Outcomes and Everyday | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Education, language and the social brain | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge. In recent years, researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology have proposed that we have evolved with “social brains” that enable us to m | 2 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mobile learning in global health training. What about social justice? | Niall discusses emerging findings from the ESRC/DFIDfunded project "mCHW: a mobile learning intervention for community health workers”. The talk will present the background to the project and position his research at | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Modalities and mechanisms of effective school inspections | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Melanie Ehren, senior lecturer at the London Centre for Leadership and Learning. School inspections are assumed to have a great impact on what students learn and how they learn it but the in | 6 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The death of human capital: why there are no exceptions | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath. Human capital theory has dominated the understanding of the relationship of education to work. It has retained plausibility until now due to the socia | 5 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Production tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children | Department of Education Public Seminar delivered by Professor Theodoros Marinis on sequential bilingual children. The seminar will look at the acquisition of definiteness in sequential bilingual (L2) children, children with Specific La | 21 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age | This talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, reflects on a recent ethnographic study of a year 9 class – researched at school and at home over an academic year. We have been particularly interested in asking how young people perce | 27 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Multiversity to Postmodern University | This seminar presentation traces the emergence of postmodernist models of higher education institutions (HEIs) from Clark Kerr’s 1963 idea of the American multiversity to Zygmunt Bauman’s more recent notion of the postmodern university. | 17 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project. | Prof. Kenneth Ruthven gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series The Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education (epiSTEMe) project designed and trialled a research-informed intervention which sought to incorporate a dialo | 17 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pronoun Interpretation in the Second Language | A talk from the Department of Education Public Seminar series given by Prof. Roumyana Slabakova (Universities of Southampton and Iowa) and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University). A much-studied phenomenon in first language (L1) acquisition concerns the f | 15 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Multi-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language | Dr Vicky Murphy talks on research examining figurative vocabulary knowledge in primary school children with EAL, examining collocations (multiword phrases) and idioms and the relative contribution this type of word knowledge makes to literacy developmen | 24 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can Psychological Research Improve Selection of Teachers? | In this talk, Prof. Klassen, University of York, considers how psychological research can inform how teachers are selected for training and practice, leading to new selection approaches that can strengthen the quality of schools in the UK and elsewhere. | 14 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Input Issues in Grammatical Outcomes | Professor Jason Rothman presents a survey of experimental research examining the grammatical knowledge and performances of heritage speaker bilinguals, most of which demonstrate that as a group they differ significantly from monolingual counterparts. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Impact of the Social Sciences | Patrick Dunleavy, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explains how the impacts of university social science have been under-researched, and their effectiveness often decried. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Educational Testing as an Accountability Measure | A public seminar given by Dr Christian Ydesen who is a researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark In this presentation Dr Ydesen will reveal perspectives based on experiences from twentieth-century Danish educational history by outlining contemporary, te | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can a single model of task complexity differentiate between the difficulty of writing and speaking tasks? | Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli is Lecturer in TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. In this presentation the existing models of task difficulty will be introduced and their applicability to L2 writing and speaking modes will be examined. | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Sociocultural Imagination: Studying the Formative Effects of 'Everydayness' | Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. He previously held Chairs at the Universities of Bath and Birmingham. He is co-convener and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT) | 13 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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English as an Additional Language: Talking to Learn? | Prof. Leung (King's College London) has worked for many years in the field of second/additional language education. His academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessme | 3 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Attraction of Psychology and the Rhetoric of Neuroscience: on 'Knowing How to Go On' in the Educational Field | Paul Smeyers is Research Professor for Philosophy of Education at Ghent University, Extraordinary Professor at K.U.Leuven, and Honorary Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. | 20 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Student Evaluations of University Teaching: Recommendations for Policy and Practice | Professor Herb Marsh is a world-leading researcher in Educational Psychology. He is the author of internationally recognised psychological tests that measure self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness. Althou | 12 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Doing practical work: rationality and heuristics in teaching | A public seminar given by Professor Walter Doyle, University of Arizona, at the Oxford University Department of Education. A basic tension exists in education between ideas and reform proposals, on the one hand, and practical work in classrooms, on the | 29 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Does it matter what 'validity' means? | In this seminar Paul E Newton, Professor of Education Assessment University of London, Institute of Education talks about how scholars have been trying to agree on a meaning of validity. | 25 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the meanings of standards in language testing | Public Seminar delivered by Professor Barry O'Sullivan from the British Council on 11/02/2013. Prof. Sullivan argues that the success of any learning system hinges on the quality of the original performance standards, the manner in which the standards a | 12 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Task as Workspace for Language Learning and Teaching | Public Seminar delivered by Prof. Martin Bygate, University of Lancaster on 28/01/2013. A focus for Task Based Language Teaching research which might help the development of TBLT. | 7 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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