Dr Terry Lamb re-elected for a third term as President of FIPLV
We're proud to announce that Dr Terry Lamb was successfully re-elected for the role with the International Federation of Language Teacher Associations, in Helsinki recently. They are an NGO of UNESCO and the Council of Europe.
Graduation Social Event
On Thursday 19th July, we hosted a post graduation social event. This followed the Graduation Ceremony in the Octagon Centre and it was great to congratulate the success of our recent graduates and celebrate with them.
ESRC Social Sciences Festival
Three members of staff have have been successful in their bids for the ESRC Social Sciences Festival in November.
Professor Jackie Marsh for her project 'Play in Parson Cross: Past and Present', Dr Kate Pahl for 'Collaborative ethnography in community contexts: Turning the tables of research dissemination' and Dr Camilla Priede for 'Here be dragons? Mapping a university landscape.
Further details of the events will be available in due course.
Nutbrown Review published
Professor Cathy Nutbrown has now published her final independent report - Foundations for Quality - on early education and childcare qualifications.
Professor Cathy Nutbrown was commissioned by Government to lead an independent review to consider how best to strengthen qualifications and career pathways in the foundation years.
Professor Nutbrown has set out 19 recommendations in her review to improve the quality of the early years sector and ensure all young children receive a high standard of care and education. The review looked at qualifications and training – both for young people who are new to the early education and childcare sector, and for those already employed there. It also considered how to promote progression through an early years career and into leadership roles.
A large-scale public consultation was conducted to gather evidence. The report of this call for evidence was released alongside an interim report in March 2012.
Government will now consider Professor Nutbrown’s report Foundations for Quality in detail, working with the sector and others, before responding later in the year.
For further information relating to the report please visit the website www.education.gov.uk/nutbrownreview.
Raising Early Achievement in Literacy: Programme effects and development of practice
Professor Cathy Nutbrown and Professor Peter Hannon from the School of Education will deliver a seminar on Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL): Programme effects and development of practice. They will share their experiences of developing interventions and working with parents and teachers in local schools in Sheffield in the REAL project, one of the largest randomised control trials of its kind. The seminar will also share current developments of the programme funded by the ESRC which has involved 200 practitioners and some 700 families.
12 June, 5.15pm, Conference Room, ICOSS. Please contact j.e.parkin@sheffield.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
Visit from Southwest University, Chongqing
The School of Education welcomed delegates from Southwest Univesity to further our collaborative relationship between our two universities and discuss aspects of higher education, teacher training, logistics management and graduate programmes.
Professor Jackie Marsh, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Dr Terry Lamb and Professor Peter Clough (Queen's University Belfast) met with members of the delegation:
Mr. Cui Yanqiang, Vice President of Southwest University
Mr. Cao Jijian, Director of Logistics Department
Mr. Li Hongjun, Vice-Director of Graduate School
Ms. Tan Zhimin, Associate Professor Online Education College
Mr. Zhangchen, Vice-Director of Graduate School
Mr. Chen Cheng, Director of Graduate level programme
15th -16th May 2012, Room 6.04, School of Education, 388 Glossop Road, S10 2JA
New Publication
Literacy and Education: The New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (2nd edition), by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell.
The book is an accessible guide to current theory on literacy with practical applications in the classroom. This new edition has a new focus on the ecologies of literacy and on participatory and visual ways of researching literacy. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book236718?siteId=sage-uk&prodTypes=any&q=pahl&fs=1
Centre for the Study of Literacies Seminar
Literacy Practices in Taoist-Buddhist Temples in Singapore
Dr Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University is visiting the School of Education. Her seminar will be based on her ethnographic study, which seeks to describe not just culture and situated literacy practices but also how these situated local practices are connected to larger socio-historical influences and ideological power dimensions.
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 12.15 - 2.00 pm. Room 7.02, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield. All welcome.
Staff research seminar: Teacher Identities in Research-led Universities
Dr Alan Skelton discusses his research into the formation of teacher identities in a research-led institution. He draws on his interviews with staff who have participated in professional development programmes about university teaching to explore the extent to which it is possible to identify with teaching in a research-led institution.
Tuesday 1st May, 12.15pm to 2.00pm. Room 7.02, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield. All welcome.
SPARKS
An article on the event, A Day in the Life of Roshill Park, is featured in the Rotherham Advertiser. Read, A Day in the Life of Roshill Park (PDF).
Centre for the Study of Literacies Seminar
Objects in Interaction: Creating Meaning Across Contexts
Drawing on ethnographic data, Gabriele Budach from the University of Southampton explores how objects contribute to shaping social interaction and how they connect life worlds which otherwise would be perceived as disjointed. She also considers how the role of objects can be conceptualised more broadly within processes of communication connecting material culture and language in various ways.
Tuesday 8th May 2012, 12.15 - 2.00 pm. Room 7.02, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield
AHRC Project Language as Talisman
The first event of the project will take place in Victoria Park, Rawmarsh, with a 'soundings' event. Speakers will be placed in trees and the voices of children and young people from Rawmarsh will be heard echoing through the park.
Friday 4th May, early evening. All welcome.
Contesting Education and Research Seminar
Urszula Clark, What is subject English for? An application of Bernstein's theory of pedagogic discourse.
Using Bernstein's theory, Urszula Clark discusses the processes by which curriculum change occurs at policy, curriculum and school level.
The paper will demonstrate how curriculum change since the late 1980s, particularly as it applies to subject English, has been nothing short of a battleground between differing ideological positions at the levels of policy and curriculum.
Wednesday 25 April, 5pm, Room 8.10. School of Education, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield. All welcome.
Early Literacy Work with Families Conference
At this conference 20 practitioners who have been working on our Early Literacy Work with Families project will share their experiences of working with the ORIM (Opportunities Recognition Interaction Models) Framework in their settings. They will present examples of their work and discuss how this has made a difference to children and families. They will lead a range of inspiring, practical workshops and share examples of their practice. Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Professor of Education, Director for Research at The University of Sheffield, School of Education, will also be giving a keynote address on Early Literacy Work with Families.
Thursday 15 March 2012, 9.30am – 3.30 pm, The Edge Conference Centre, University of Sheffield, S10 3ED
To book a place or for more information please email Karen Kitchen [k.kitchen@sheffield.ac.uk]
Childhood Seminar Series
Seminar 4 Interdisciplinary ethical challenges - the ‘state’ of the society and world in which children are growing up
Professor Cathy Nutbrown and Dr Kate Pahl will be speaking at the fourth seminar in the series which will examine ethical challenges of attempting to study ‘the child’ across disciplines such as sociology, art and visual anthropology and the role of childhood research in empowering individuals and societies to make change.
10.30 am – 4.00 pm, 29th March 2012.
University of Sheffield, ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield.
The Centre for the Study of Educational Development and Professional Lives Seminar
Dr Darren Webb, School of Education: Hope, Utopia, Education
Tuesday 6th March, 12.30pm to 2.00pm. Room 6.04, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield
Everyone welcome! Please contact Karen Kitchen if you plan to attend: K.Kitchen@sheffield.ac.uk.
SPARKS
An AHRC Connected Communities funded project on language and interaction in public parks, is having its final event in Victora Park, Rawmarsh, Rotherham. Data from the project will be projected against the side of the Youth Centre in the Park.
Thursday 15 March, 5pm onwards. All welcome.
Open Day BA in Education, Culture and Childhood
We welcolme applicants and parents to our open day on Wednesday 22nd February, from 10.30 onwards, Room 1.02. As well as talks in the School there is also a visit to Endcliffe Student Village and a campus tour.Contesting Education and Research Seminar
Morwenna Griffiths, Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University 'Why Joy in Education is an Issue for Policy Makers interested in Social Justice'.
Wednesday 22 February, 5pm, The School of Education, 388 Glossop Road, Room 8.07. All welcome.
Further details: http://www.shef.ac.uk/education/research/groups/csedpl/csedplsemi
AHRC project 'Language as Talisman'
Congratulations to Dr Kate Pahl and Dr David Hyatt who were successful in their bid to for funding from AHRC to work with colleagues from the Department of English, the Youth Service in Rotherham and Inspire Rotherham to carry out a research review together with a cross-disciplinary project on language in use and local stories in Rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
BookedUp Project
Dr Rachael Levy is part of a successful bid to Book Trust for an evaluation of their BookedUp project. This is part of our collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University under the Collaboration Sheffield Umbrella.
Celebrating Young People and Research
The lastest issue of REACH Schools and Colleges Newsletter features our recent ESRC event. theuniversityofsheffield.com/REACHJan2012/I9F-DCF-4D2QC51L99/research.aspx
Challenging the Binaries - Call for Papers
Centre for the Study of New Literacies are hosting a conference exploring binaries which have emerged through New Literacies research. Some of these have been the lenses which have framed research questions or guided & emerged through analysis. This conference will extend & challenge the discussions around binary constructs. Examples include Home/ School; Real/Virtual; Online/Offline; Formal/ Informal; Literate/Illiterate; Old/New; Academic/non-academic; Autonomous/ Ideological; Global/Local; Digital Immigrant/Digital Native. Papers should reflect on binaries - problematising or drawing on them.
Send abstracts of 200 - 300 words to NewLiteracies@sheffield.ac.uk, by 30th March 2012.
Challenging the Binaries Conference 29th - 30th June 2012, School of Education, University of Sheffield, S10 2JA
Learning Teaching Conference 2012
Several of the School of Education's academic staff presented at the Learning & Teaching Conference on 9 January 2012. For further information about the conference and to download presentations, please go to the Learning & Teaching Conference website: www.sheffield.ac.uk/lets/conf.
Postgraduate award winners
Congratuations to Jill Smith, who has been awarded the School of Education Postgraduate Student Prize 2012, for her outstanding dissertation and Jo-Anne Lamb, the recipient of the Rutland Prize 2012, who impressed the panel with her research into Forest schools which was deemed academically outstanding.
Picture Right: Left to right Dr Jools Page Programme Director for Early Childhood Education, Jo-Anne Lamb Winner of the Rutland Hotel prize for Early Education, Rob Hyman Deputy General Manager The Rutland Hotel and Professor Cathy Nutbrown Director of Studies Early Childhood Education
Routledge Education Class of 2011
An article recently published in Journal of Education for Teaching by Jon Scaife and Jerry Wellington entitled 'Varying perspectives and practices in formative and diagnostic assessment: a case study' has been included in the Routledge 'class of 2011'. It was one of the most downloaded articles published in the journal. www.educationarena.com/journalPromotions/mostDownloaded/classof2011/
The Centre for the Study of Educational Development and Professional Lives Seminar
Learning and Growing in a "Foreign" Context: the impact of UK educational experiences on Chinese students' and returnees' lives and careers
Dr Qing Gu, Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham presents her paper discussing the nature of Chinese students’ transitional experiences both in terms of their maturation and human development and their intercultural adaptation when studying at British universities. She explores how, why and to what extent such experiences may (or may not) contribute to their personal and professional development on their return to work in their home country. The seminar draws on findings from a two-year ESRC funded research project on the experiences of first-year undergraduate international students at four UK higher education institutions, and a British Academy funded pilot study which investigated the perceived impact of overseas studies on the lives and careers of Chinese returnees.
Wednesday 1 February, The School of Education, 388 Glossop Road, Room 1.02, 4.30 – 6.30 pm.
Everyone welcome! Please contact Karen Kitchen if you plan to attend: K.Kitchen@sheffield.ac.uk.
The Centre for the Study of New Literacies seminar
Binary Divisions: Speaking up for the wrong sides of the debate in educational technology and media
Dr Neil Selwyn from the Institute of Education, considers some of the ‘binary constructs’ that underpin most research, writing and thinking about new media and education and looks at what is being lost in our rejection of the formal, institutionalised, didactic, regulated aspects of education.
He suggests that these unfashionable concepts perhaps hold the key to challenging the neo-liberal biases of new media that we may otherwise unwittingly be endorsing.
Tuesday 7 February, The School of Education, 388 Glossop Road, Room 7.02, 12.30 - 2.00 pm
Please email if you wish to attend: newliteracies@sheffield.ac.uk
Symposium on Infant-Toddler Education and Care: Exploring Diverse Perspectives on Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Dr Jools Page recently attended this symposium. The aim of which was to bring together leading researchers working from and within different theoretical, philosophical, practice and policy frameworks to stimulate new ways of thinking about infant-toddler education and care. Professor Jennifer Sumsion and Associate Professor Linda Harrison said: ' By developing a greater appreciation of diverse, cross-national perspectives on infant-toddler education and care, this collaborative event was intended to push the boundaries of infant-toddler research, practice and policy. Through a process of sharing and discussing each other’s current thinking, participants learned from each other by hearing ‘different perspectives talk together.’ The plan to not only identify commonalities of approach, but also to productively address discontinuities and dissonances. Meeting together enabled the group to produce tangible outcomes ( a scholarly book, consisting of chapters authored by the participants in the symposium) and to provide opportunities to generate future possibilities for collaborative research.
