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14 September 2015 to 17 September 2015Belfast

7.01 

Comparative and International Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Education for Employability and Social Cohesion
Chair: Katsikopoulou, Ioanna – University of York

*0240 – Finding one’s place in society: Exploring the relation between vocational education and social cohesion in Greece and England
Katsikopoulou, Ioanna – University of York

 

7.02

Comparative and International Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teacher Professionalism and Quality Cultures
Chair: Coughlin, Dominic – King’s College London

 

0089 – Examining Teacher Responsibility Variation in Curriculum and Didaktik Orientations: Evidence from PISA 2009
Tahirsylaj, Armend – The Pennsylvania State University

0313 – Control, resistance and influence: a comparative analysis of the teaching standards development processes in England and Scotland
Coughlin, Dominic – King’s College London

  7.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Innovation Session

 

0114 – Does 11-14 schooling in the UK have the flexibility to respond to innovations such as SCIART or STEAM education? And should schools facilitate art science collaborations?
Robson, Deirdre – St Mary’s University College; Hickey, Ivor – St Mary’s University College

 7.04

Educational Effectiveness and Improvement
Session Type: Individual Papers

Building careers, skills and aspirations
Chair: Berger, Nathan – University of Newcastle, Australia

*0244 – Circumscription and compromise: An accelerated longitudinal analysis of primary and secondary school pupils’ career aspirations
Berger, Nathan – University of Newcastle, Australia; Holmes, Kathryn – University of Newcastle, Australia; Archer, Jennifer – University of Newcastle, Australia; Gore, Jennifer – University of Newcastle, Australia

0250 – The School to Work Transition: School leaver perceptions of skills for employment
Stockford, Antony – University of Bedfordshire

7.05

Educational Research and Educational Policy-making
Session Type: Individual Papers

Professional development challenges -Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish and Australian perspectives – Part 1
Chair: Judge, Miriam – Dublin City University

*0054 – Methodological Processes and Preliminary Findings from an Australian Qualitative Multi-site Case Study: How does on-site professional development contribute to improved teacher practice?
Forrester, Catherine – Catholic Education Office

0607 – Teacher CPD, interactive whiteboards and a transfer of innovation initiative. An analysis of challenges encountered in an Irish project
Judge, Miriam – Dublin City University

7.06

Educational Technology
Session Type: Individual Papers

Digital explorations of cultural and survival needs
Chair: Clayton, John – Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

0367 – Designing learning environments to meet indigenous cultural needs
Clayton, John – Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi; Hunt, Daemon – Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi; Doherty, Wiremu – Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

7.07

Educational Technology
Session Type: Innovation Session

0595 – Mobile Learning and Usage in Higher Education
Nielsen, Doreen – University of Greenwich; Hawkes, Denise – UCL Institute of Education; Lin, Yong – University of Greenwich; White, Anthony – Middlesex University

7.08

Inclusive Education
Session Type: Innovation Session

0211 – A jelly jigsaw, with missing pieces and no picture? Engaging with the dilemmas, tensions and contradictions of education and inclusion
Black, Alison – University of Exeter

7.09

Inclusive Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Inclusion and the implementation of policy
Chair: Curran, Helen – Bath Spa University

*0483 – Special Educational Needs Coordinators in Post- primary Schools in Ireland: An Exploration of the Role
Fitzgerald, Johanna – Mary Immaculate College, UCL Institute of Education; Radford, Julie – UCL Institute of Education

0473 – SEND reforms 2014 and the narrative of the SENCO: early perspectives of impact on children and young people with SEND, the SENCO and the school
Curran, Helen – Bath Spa University

7.11

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Perspectives On Teacher Knowledge
Chair: Goodwyn, Andy – University of Reading

0406 – A critique of the National Curriculum for English, specifically its statements related to the value of teaching literature: a proposed new paradigm for teaching literature to adolescents in secondary schools and examining literary reading from a Darwinian perspective
Goodwyn, Andy – University of Reading

0346 – Investigating literary knowledge in the education of English teachers
Davies, Larissa McLean – University of Melbourne; Doecke, Brenton – Deakin University; Mead, Philip – University of Western Australia; Sawyer, Wayne – University of Western Sydney

7.12

Mathematics Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Assessing students’ views and outcomes
Chair: Macintyre, Tom – University of Edinburgh

0332 – Using international survey data to inform policy and practice in mathematics education
Macintyre, Tom – The University of Edinburgh

*0351 – Assessing Basic Facts Knowledge for Enhanced Teaching and Learning
Tait-McCutcheon, Sandi – Victoria University of Wellington; Drake, Michael – Victoria University of Wellington

 7.13

Practitioner Research
Session Type: Innovation Session

0302 – Initiating (Language) Teachers to Research their Professional Context
Slimani-Rolls, Assia – Regent’s University; Costantino, Anna – University of Greenwich 

 7.14

Race Ethnicity and Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Theorising race and multiculturalism
Chair: Race, Richard – Roehampton University

0409 – The Expansion Of Whiteness In Educational Practices: A Global Perspective
Medina, S.Ximena Bonilla – University of East London, Distrital FJC University

0563 – Soutphommasane’s ‘cultural literate dialogue’ and its application and lessons for multiculturalism and multicultural education
Race, Richard – Roehampton University

7.15

Race Ethnicity and Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

The migrant experience and education
Chair: Dhillon, Jaswinder – University of Worcester

0157 – Education, entrepreneurship and social mobility in the trajectories of British Sikh families
Dhillon, Jaswinder – University of Worcester

0145 – Listening to include asylum-seeking students in Cyprus: an action research
Damianidou, Eleni – University of Cyprus; Phtiaka, Helen – University of Cyprus

 7.16

Race Ethnicity and Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Educational influences on multi-ethnic groups
Chair: Davies, Alison – The Open University

*0444 – Pakistani-heritage young Muslims in a small city explore the influences upon their educational progress
Davies, Alison – The Open University

*0509 – From co-presence to integration: exploring processes of intergroup contact within shared classes in Northern Ireland
Loader, Rebecca – Queen’s University Belfast

 7.17

Sexualities
Session Type: Individual Papers

Gender & sexualities equalities education in the primary school
Chair: Atkinson, Catherine – University of York

0459 – Children doing gender and sexuality in the primary school: exploring the effects of critical pedagogy
Atkinson, Catherine – University of York

*0524 – Sex and Relationship Education vs. Inclusive Education? Addressing homoparental families in primary schools
Pereyra, Manuel Lopez – University of York

7.18

Sexualities
Session Type: Individual Papers

Exploring sexualities & schooling
Chair: Francis, Dennis – University of the Free State

0372 – Innocence, experience and the teaching and learning of sexuality education
Francis, Dennis – University of the Free State

0456 – The Ambivalences of Legitimacy and Normalisation: Questions Raised for Sexualities and Schooling
Neary, Aoife – University of Limerick

7.19

Social Theory and Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Rethinking student achievement and disability
Chair: Wilkins, Andrew – University of East London

*0049 – Unravelling the effects of cultural capital on students’ mathematics achievement in countries with different socioeconomic gradients: An international study using hierarchical linear modelling
Tan, Cheng Yong – The University of Hong Kong

*0271 – The notions of impairment and disability in anthropological accounts of myth: a reproblematization of the relationship between Anthropology and Disability Studies
Iacovou-Charalambous, Maria – University of Cyprus; Phtiaka, Helen – University of Cyprus

7.20

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Individual Papers

Professional capital
Chair: Beutel, Denise – Queensland University of Technology

0148 – Preservice second career teachers: Backgrounds, strengths and perceived qualities of good teachers
Beutel, Denise – Queensland University of Technology; Crosswell, Leanne – Queensland University of Technology

0076 – Prison teachers matter: a study of the roles, identities and knowledge bases of teachers working in English prisons
Czerniawski, Gerry – University of East London

7.21

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Individual Papers

Developing research-informed practice
Chair: Mutton, Trevor – University of Oxford

0525 – Professional learning through a subject-specific Masters programme: engaging with and in research to develop teachers’ epistemological beliefs and classroom practice
Mutton, Trevor – University of Oxford; Woore, Robert – University of Oxford; Molway, Laura – University of Oxford

0494 – Teachers’ engagement with published research
Cain, Tim – Edge Hill University

7.22

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Innovation Session

0593 – Developing frameworks for career-long professional development – The Role of Teaching Councils as professional and regulatory bodies
Gallagher, Carmel – General Teaching Council Northern Ireland; Muir, Ken – General Teaching Council Scotland; Llewellyn, Hayden – General Teaching Council Wales; O Rourke, Tomas – Teaching Council Ireland; Donaldson, Graham – University of Glasgow

 7.23

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Individual Papers 

Teachers’ learning
Chair: Robinson, Sandra – The University of the West Indies

0072 – “Snapshots of Critical Thinking in Caribbean Schools: Teachers’ Reflection”
Robinson, Sandra – The University of the West Indies; Knight, Verna – The University of the West Indies

*0115 – Developing constructive alignment of assessment: the contested place of assessed reflective writing in ITE
Croft, Julia – University of Bedfordshire

7.24

Youth Studies and Informal Education
Session Type: Individual Paper

On the true nature of partnership: a philosophical consideration
Chair: Davies, Richard – Aberystwyth University

0554 – On the true nature of partnership: a philosophical consideration
Davies, Richard – Aberystwyth University