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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CleanReligion 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. | 8 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoes 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. | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEducation 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. | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking 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 | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat 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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CleanPromoting 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. | 9 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClosing 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. | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 20 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow 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. | 12 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean‘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. | 5 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParenting support Evidence, policy and practice | Professor Geoff Lindsay, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. | 28 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAssessment 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. | 22 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDesign 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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CleanQuestioning 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. | 9 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat 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? | 8 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPredictability 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. | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoes 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. | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEducation, language and the social brain | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge. | 2 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMobile 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”. | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanModalities 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. | 6 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 5 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanProduction tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children | Department of Education Public Seminar delivered by Professor Theodoros Marinis on sequential bilingual children. | 21 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 27 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom 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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CleanDeveloping 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 | 17 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPronoun 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). | 15 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMulti-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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CleanCan 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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CleanHeritage 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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CleanThe 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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CleanEducational Testing as an Accountability Measure | A public seminar given by Dr Christian Ydesen who is a researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan 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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CleanA 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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CleanEnglish 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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CleanThe 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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CleanStudent 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. | 12 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoing 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. | 29 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoes 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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CleanExploring the meanings of standards in language testing | Public Seminar delivered by Professor Barry O'Sullivan from the British Council on 11/02/2013. | 12 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTask 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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