It's 9.30 to 3.30 and cheap - £20 for members and £25 for non-members.
Keynote 1 Dr Uvanney Maylor, Reader, University of Bedfordshire - It’s not a big issue’: ‘Race’ and ethnicity in the classroom
Drawing on data conducted with teachers, pupils and parents in a range of schools, this paper examines the extent to which issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity matter in 2011. In illuminating experiences of in/exclusion, the paper challenges the omission of ‘race’ and ethnicity in school and policy discourse.
Keynote 2 Dr Kalwant Bhopal, Reader, University of Southampton - This is a school, it’s not a site’: teachers’ attitudes towards Gypsy and Traveller pupils in schools in England, UK
Abstract – This paper will examine teachers’ attitudes towards Gypsy and Traveller pupils in one primary and one secondary school in an inner London borough, in England UK. The research is based on in-depth interviews with twenty teachers, heads, deputies and classroom assistants.
The main aims of the study were to examine examples of ‘good practice’ in schools and to explore strategies that would improve the educational outcomes for Gypsy and Traveller groups. The paper will argue that, despite schools taking positive inclusive measures for Gypsy and Traveller pupils, this alone does not encourage positive attitudes or change attitudes towards them. In some cases, such practices work to emphasise the difference and outsider status of these groups.
Plus workshops.
For further information, please contact: Dr Vini Lander, University of Chichester
E-mail: V.Lander@chi.ac.uk Tel. 01243 812058
RSVP: Mark Donoghue at BERA E-mail: mark.donoghue@bera.ac.uk
Telephone 020 7612 6987
If you have an interest in empire and literature, the British Academy and Queen Mary, University of London are holding a free seminar/panel discussion pondering it over.
End of Empire and the English Novel
Wednesday 2 November 2011 5.30pm - 8.00pm,
British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
'The purpose of this discussion is to open up the connections between the end of the British Empire and the English novel. The main focus will be with English fiction more narrowly defined – Joseph Tey, John Masters, William Boyd, A S Byatt, Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan and popular feminine romance.
These authors are not conventionally read as postcolonial, but they have much of interest to say about the fate of England after the Empire. There has been no sustained discussion of these writers and their relationship to the end of the Empire. The discussion will illuminate both questions to do with the properties of the English novel, and with English history since 1945.
First session: THE ISSUES
- Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London (Chair)
- Cold War and the End of Empire in the Late 1940s
- Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading
- William Golding
- Rachel Gilmour, Queen Mary, University of London
- Tim Parks
- Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary, University of London
Second session: RESPONSES
- Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford (Chair)
- Catherine Hall, University College London
- Susheila Nasta, Open University
- Marina Warner FBA, Novelist/University of Essex
Attendance is free, but registration is required for this event. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2011/End_of_Empire.cfm
17 November 2011 - Free Early Years Event in York
As part of NCB and C4EO’s Peer to Peer Quality Improvement programme, NCB is running a series of regional events for local authority (LA) staff who are members of its early years networks (Local Authority Early Years Network, National Quality Improvement Network and Young Children's Voices Network).
These events are an opportunity to:
Share and celebrate LA practice
Learn about aspects of quality improvement and how to improve quality within your LA/setting
Discover materials and tools to support your practice
The events are free to attend and up to three delegates can apply from each LA. However, places are limited and early booking is recommended: priority will be given to members in the host region for each event.
The first event, which focused on communication and language within the EYFS, took place on 3 October in Manchester: papers from the event will be available to download soon.
http://www.ncb.org.uk/ecu_network/events.asp1
Human Rights lecture by EHRC Chief Executive – 7 December 2011
Mark Hammond, Chief Executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and Visiting Professor at Canterbury Christ Church University is giving a public lecture looking at 783 years of human rights in the UK, starting with the revolt against King John and how this led to the human rights act of 1998.
This event is open to the public and free to attend. It takes place on 7 December in Canterbury http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/?p=13696
1st Call for papers
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY
9TH-11TH JULY 2012.
To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University, (CSCY) this conference addresses the theme of diversity in the lives of children and young people.
Issues to be explored include, but are not restricted to:
Children’s and young people’s diverse social and cultural worlds
Understanding identity and difference
Structures and institutions as indices of childhood diversity
Time, space and place
Methodological innovations in childhood research
Theorising similarity and difference
Those wishing to organise small symposia around a specific theme are also invited to submit a proposal.
Abstracts:
Abstracts of no more than 200 words (for papers) 400 words (for symposia) should be sent to the conference administrator, Dawn Lessels, by January 31st 2012. E-mail: d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk.
Check out our conference page: http://www.cscy.group.shef.ac.uk/activities/conferences/index.htm
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