February
- Can Academic Freedom Be Taught Anymore? On the Disappearance of Judgement as a Mental Function
26 January 2011 Philosophy of Education Research Seminar - Learners and Providers: School, College and Work-based learning
01 February 2011 A London Region Post-14 Network Conference - CHES 2010-2011 Seminar Series - Higher Education
01 February 2011 This is the sixth seminar in the 2010/11 series. The CHES seminars provide a forum for debate and analysis of issues affecting policy, practice and research in higher education, supporting the exchange of views and experiences across higher education. Seminars are normally held at 5:30 pm on the first Tuesday of the month at the Institute of Education. - CHES 2010-2011 Seminar Series - Higher Education Research Policy in the UK: Equality Impacts?
01 February 2011 This is the sixth seminar in the 2010/11 series. The CHES seminars provide a forum for debate and analysis of issues affecting policy, practice and research in higher education, supporting the exchange of views and experiences across higher education. Seminars are normally held at 5:30 pm on the first Tuesday of the month at the Institute of Education. - Lessons from the Past: The early history of the Irish Pre-school Playgroups Association.
01 February 2011 Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) lunchtime seminar series - Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates
02 February 2011 The Gordon Square seminar series is multi-disciplinary, and showcases the work of demographers, statisticians, sociologists, psychologists and economists working in the field of education research. - SSRU Seminar: Microfinance and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: golden bullet or poisoned chalice?
02 February 2011 Microfinance has been hailed as a major contributor to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Its 'creator' Muhammed Yunnus was even awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. High praise indeed, but what is the evidence for this costly intervention? Can offering people loans at interest rates of up to 40% really alleviate poverty? - LLAKES Public Seminar
03 February 2011 Gramsci, The State and Adult Education This presentation, drawing on original sources, provides an overview of and a discussion on those writings and ideas, in Antonio Gramsci's huge corpus of work, that are relevant to the education of adults. - Book Launch - Professor Ron Barnett - Being a University
03 February 2011 Professor Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education will be launching his latest book Being a University (Routledge 2011) - Department of Psychology and Human Development Research Seminar
03 February 2011 Language and early literacy: the overlap between SLI and dyslexia in the early years - Theories of race, class and intelligence: the legacy of the eugenic vision of Francis Galton
03 February 2011 - LLAKES Public Seminar
03 February 2011 Gramsci, The State and Adult Education This presentation, drawing on original sources, provides an overview of and a discussion on those writings and ideas, in Antonio Gramsci's huge corpus of work, that are relevant to the education of adults. - Post 14 Network Lecture - Current Issues in lifelong Learning
08 February 2011 We are pleased to announce Baroness Sharp will be giving a lecture at the Institute of Education entitled "Post 16 participation and the Further Education Sector" - Sample Group Means in Multilevel Models.
09 February 2011 The Gordon Square seminar series is multi-disciplinary, and showcases the work of demographers, statisticians, sociologists, psychologists and economists working in the field of education research. - Histories of Education - Seminars
09 February 2011 'Women's learner identities in post-colonial London' *Open to All* - Histories of Education - Seminars
09 February 2011 'Women's learner identities in post-colonial London' *open to all - 'Enduring Issues in Urban Education'
09 February 2011 This is the 7th seminar in the CeCeps series 'Policy futures: from the global to the local' Speaker: Nina Bascia,Chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,University of Toronto 'Is the role of teacher organisations one of inevitable opposition to education reform or can they be partners with governments?' Discussant: John Bangs, Visiting Professor, IOE Chair: Stephen Ball, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, IOE - Character Versus Care: Conceptions of the Good Teacher
09 February 2011 Philosophy of Education Research Seminar - Research Seminar - Music Education Special Interest Group
14 February 2011 An exploration of music teacher socialization in the United States - Coaching for leadership survival
15 February 2011 Coaching for leadership survival with Max Coates The session is open to everybody and will be an opportunity for participants to share evidence, insights and strategies for developing resilience, preventing burnout and managing organisational relationships in times of rapid change. - Humanist Learning and Abstract Art in Question
16 February 2011 Philosophy of Education Research Seminar - Getting Teachers to Remote Locations in India: Skills versus Preferences.
16 February 2011 The Gordon Square seminar series is multi-disciplinary, and showcases the work of demographers, statisticians, sociologists, psychologists and economists working in the field of education research - Department of Psychology and Human Development Research
17 February 2011 Philosophical Influences on Vygotsky and the Question of Normativity: Inferentialism and the three mountains task - CHES 2010-2011 Seminar Series - Markets Rule, OK?
17 February 2011 Drawing on his recently published survey of marketisation across developed HE systems, and given that we now have a strongly pro-market government, Professor Brown will examine the progressive marketisation of UK higher education. He will look at the gains and losses, and see how we might gain the benefits of competition without the detriments. - Doctoral Research Seminars
22 February 2011 Michael Vogel - Teaching alone: pedagogical solitude at a German higher education institution Hilaire Graham - Student perceptions of spaces supporting effective learning - MA Students wanted for research
22 February 2011 Are you studying for a Masters degree at the Institute? Are you finding it more difficult than you thought you would? Are you enjoying it? Have you experienced particular problems? We want to hear from you! - Finding the Voice of the Learner: Herbart and the Dialogic Nature of Moral Education
23 February 2011 Philosophy of Education Research Seminar - Disadvantaged children's "low" educational expectations: Is the UK really so different to other industrialized nations?
23 February 2011 The Gordon Square seminar series is multi-disciplinary, and showcases the work of demographers, statisticians, sociologists, psychologists and economists working in the field of education research. - Philanthropy, Profit and Education Policy: The beginning of the end of state education
25 February 2011 This conference will draw upon education policy research to address and explore some current major changes in the English education system. We may be in the midst of the most significant change in English education since 1870 - the beginning of the end of state education perhaps?