15 February 2012, 11.30 am
Alf Coles will talk on his new project researching underachievement in mathematics through creativity
21 February 2012, 12 pm
George Kahangwa, GSoE Doctoral Researcher, shares his research about higher education policies and practices in Tanzania.
29 February 2012, 5 pm
Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford (Institute of Education, University of London) will talk on why and when do certain children manage to succeed ‘against the odds’ while others do not.
6 March 2012, 12.30 pm
This paper describes how a social networking site (SNS), has been used as an alternative platform by a group of English as a second language (ESL) learners to learn the language.
9 March 2012, 11.30 am
Dr Lim considers the challenges reference frameworks pose to standard setting and vice versa. His arguments will be illustrated using empirical work relating English language proficiency exams to the CEFR.
15 March 2012, 10 am
This seminar focuses on 'risk' as expressed in the topic under scrutiny and in the field. The speakers will offer insights into research ethics in risk zones e.g sites of sensitivity or danger and topics that might challenge the nature of research and the ethical issues that it may raise.
20 March 2012, 12 pm
Dr Nicola Savvides, Lecturer at Durham University, speaks about her comparative study of students’ intercultural experiences at three of the intergovernmental ‘European Schools’, located in England, Belgium, and Spain, and consider how far these students are becoming intercultural speakers.
