IPSE Seminars
On this page , you can find details of current IPSE seminars and the Jean Monnet lecture series, Higher Education Research Seminars (HERS), the IPSE Reading Group, Research Student Seminars and one off lectures and seminars.
For details of Previous IPSE Seminars, please click here.
IPSE SEMINAR SERIES 2011-12:
TRANSFORMATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL WORKFORCES
The Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) are running a seminar series at London Metropolitan University on Transformations in the Education Workforces.
The seminars will take a critical look at the changing nature of the education workforce in its broadest sense and so explore the relationships, tensions, ambiguities and enhancements that have come to characterise the current workforce. By drawing on current and recent research by IPSE and external invited guests, papers will present debates pertaining to teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, mentors, local authority staff, voluntary sector organisations and parents engaged in the education of their children. The series foreground’s IPSE’s commitment to social justice by placing a focus upon those on the margins, those with perhaps less power, or those whose voices are not heard.
Please contact Sumi Hollingworth (s.hollingworth@londonmet.ac.uk) for more information about the series.
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The rise of credentialism?Spring 2012 The final seminar aims to pull threads together from the previous four seminars to explore the debates around education and credentialism, and the increasing professionalization of many of these peripheral roles in the education sector. Exploring the debates about whether these new and old roles across the education sector are becoming more professional or whether we are seeing a ‘dumbing down’ of professional status through a focus on competencies based credentials; rather than knowledge acquisition. The primary objective of this seminar is to offer a problematisation of credentialism within workforces and hence challenge the commonsense conflation of credentialism with a ‘professionalism’ agenda. |
Speakers TBC |
Representation in the Higher Education WorkforceJanuary 2012 This seminar will explore issues of exclusion and inclusion within the Higher Education workforce. The papers will address gendered/ classed/ raced representation in the Higher Education workforce, including the ways in which certain workers, and the work that they do are constructed in particularly gendered ways. |
Carole Leathwood (IPSE, London Metropolitan University), Valerie Hey and Mairead Dunne (CHEER, University of Sussex) |
Educating at the boundaries: the blurring of education and care?October 2011. |
Sumi Hollingworth (IPSE, London Metropolitan University). Val Gillies and Yvonne Robinson (London Southbank University). |
Educating Communities: Teachers in Supplementary SchoolsJune 2011 The aim of this seminar was to explore the growth of supplementary and complementary education from the grass roots, giving a voice to the experiences of people involved in educating, and supporting education, outside of mainstream schooling: a ‘shadow’ workforce often made up of parents and community leaders and activists. This seminar explored the tensions and ambiguities encountered by those working within the shadows of formal schooling, and the benefits of making links between the complementary and mainstream sectors. |
Dr. Uvanney Maylor (University of Bedfordshire) and |
Students are encouraged to attend. Please contact Angela Kamara on a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk if you would like to book a place, or to go on the mailing list to hear about forthcoming seminars, or other events run by IPSE.
JEAN MONNET LECTURE SERIES: Border Crossings, Moving Borders
As part of his Jean Monnet personal Chair activities, Professor Alistair Ross is making a study of how young people of secondary school age are constructing their personal identities, and becoming aware of their actual or potential European citizenship. It focuses on two groups of countries: some that have recently joined the European Union and the four candidate countries.
A series of focus groups with young people between 12 and 18 in each country are used to examine the various aspirations and identities being constructed and used. Each country has either ‘crossed the border’ into the European Union, or is about to do so. How do they view Europe, and the potential for their role within it? Is this different from the views of their parents, their teachers? Does education have a particular role to play in helping them develop these identities? This study is planned over three years, to 2012.
JEAN MONNET LECTURE PROGRAMME |
Young Identities in the Baltic14th February 2011 |
Changing constructions of identities among Turkish young people15th June 2011 |
Young Peoples’ Identities in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary26th October 2011 |
European Islands: similarities and differences in young people’s constructions of identities in Iceland and Cyprus.12th January 2012 |
Macedonia and Montenegro |
For more information on the Jean Monnet Lecture Series, please click here.
Please contact Angela Kamara on a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk if you would like to attend a lecture.
ESRC Seminar Series 'New Perspectives on Education and Culture’ Jan 11- Jan 13
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPSE) in Education has been awarded ESRC funding to organise a seminar series titled 'New Perspectives on Education and Culture’. The seminar series is being run in collaboration with the Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth. Jocey Quinn (Plymouth) is leading the series, assisted by Kim Allen (IPSE).
Seminars focus on the co-construction of culture and learning, examining both ‘culture’ and ‘learning’ in their broadest sense. The series focuses on new cross-disciplinary connections and perspectives to explore new research on Education and Culture within narratives, disciplines, families, popular culture, professions and local communities.
This series runs from Jan 2011- Jan 2013
For more details on this seminar series, please click here.
HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH SEMINARS (HERS)
Higher Education Research Seminars [HERS] is an annual seminar series for staff and postgraduate students in London Metropolitan University. Now in its ninth year, these meetings are generally informal lunch-time events. Details of the HERS seminar programme for this semester, 2011-12, are given below.
Please contact Anthea Rose for further details.
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HERS SEMINARS 2011-12 |
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Tuesday 31st January 12.30-1.45pm, Room BEL1-12. |
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Wednesday 7th March 12.30-1.45pm, Room BEL1-12. |
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Wednesday 28th March 12:30- 1:45pm, Room TSG-04. |
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Tuesday 1st May 12:30- 1:45pm, Room BEL1-12. |
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Wednesday 6th June 12.30-1.45pm, Room BEL1-12. |
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Monday 16th July 12:30-1:45pm, Room BEL1-12. |
IPSE READING GROUP
Understanding Key Thinkers and How to Use Their Ideas
Ever wondered who Bourdieu was and what he really said but been afraid to ask? Want to find out in a friendly and informal group? The new IPSE reading group will introduce key thinkers and ideas in educational and social research and explore how their ideas are put into practice.
All IPSE staff and students are very welcome and encouraged to come along and join the discussion.
Please contact Ayo Mansaray on: A.Mansaray@londonmet.ac.uk for more information.
- Wednesday 22nd February, 2-3pm
- Monday 5th March, 4.30-5.30pm
- Wednesday 21st March, 2-3pm
RESEARCH STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES 2011-12
IPSE is launching a seminar series specifically for PhD/EdD research students in Education at London Metropolitan University.
The seminars are intended to be an informal, non-threatening platform where research students can listen to two presentations about various aspects of doing doctoral research. Each presentation is intended to last approximately 20 minutes.
Ample time is factored in for Q&A/discussion following the presentations which allows space for students to reflect upon and make connections with their own research experiences and debate these in a supportive environment.
Participating and attending such events should be viewed as a vital and important part of any doctoral journey. Such events are hugely beneficial and help to alleviate the sense of isolation that can often accompany studying at this level.
Dates:
3rd October
14th November
16th January
27th February
23rd April
11th June
Location: North Campus, Room GCG-09
Day / time Mondays, 5-6.30pm (to include time for chat over wine/refreshments/nibbles)
The presentations are intended to allow students the space to reflect upon different aspects and stages of doing doctoral research and to develop their ideas through sharing them.
Examples of previous seminar papers and ideas for future ones include:
- Choosing research methods,
- Devising a sampling strategy,
- Practicalities of going into the field,
- Theoretical frameworks and tensions,
- Doing life history interviewing and ethical dilemmas,
- Undertaking qualitative analysis,
- Reviewing literature and writing it up,
- Putting pen to paper!: Writing the thesis
We would welcome other suggestions; these are meant as a guide and could be revisited.
We are looking for volunteers to present works in progress.
For more details or to offer a presentation please contact Dr. Jayne Osgood j.osgood@londonmet.ac.uk or Dr. Anthea Rose anthea.rose@londonmet.ac.uk
For details of Previous IPSE Seminars, please click here.
