Dr Edward Kessler, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 7th November 2016. Religion and belief are driving forces in society today.Although there is some divergence of opinion over the

Does market competition and/or the growth of participation foster diversity in higher education systems?

Nov 1st, 2016 37m 35s

Professor Simon Marginson, ULC Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. This seminar returns to a long-standing issue in the literature on higher education systems, that of the relationship, if

Education in divided societies: The role of school collaboration

Oct 31st, 2016 51m 36s

Professor Tony Gallagher, University of Belfast, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 24th October 2016. Mass education has traditionally been used as an integrating force, perhaps most notably in the role of th

Making use of international large- scale assessment data in national contexts: PIRLS for Teachers

Oct 31st, 2016 31m 3s

Dr Therese N Hopfenbeck, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 17th October 2016. Co-written with Dr Jenny Lenkeit More information is available here;http://oucea.education.ox.ac

What Can We Learn from students' reports of their secondary school experiences and their role in shaping academic outcomes at GCSE?

Jun 2nd, 2016 1h 8m

This lecture discusses the development of various measures of students experiences and views of their secondary schools based on self report questionnaires taken at ages 14 & 16.

Promoting quality in education: A dynamic approach to school improvement

Mar 9th, 2016 28m 46s

Professor Leonidas Kyriakides, Department of Education, University of Cyprus, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. This lecture refers to the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) which attempts to contrib

Closing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational research

Mar 4th, 2016 56m 29s

Dr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series. Abstract:During 2012, the National College for Teac

The scare tactic: Does it work? Motivating students for test and examinations

Nov 20th, 2015 45m 41s

Professor David Putwain (Edge Hill University) gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. A relatively common motivational strategy used by teachers, and others, prior to high-stakes examinations (such as the GCSE), is

How well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment.

Nov 12th, 2015 44m 44s

Seminar looking at education in Sudan and other North African countries. This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study. We know that National Learning Assessments

‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital age

Nov 5th, 2015 54m 21s

Professor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ w

Parenting support Evidence, policy and practice

Oct 28th, 2015 52m 1s

Professor Geoff Lindsay, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. Abstract: 'In this talk I shall draw upon two large scale studies of parenting programmes to explore two issues: evidence for t

Assessment and learning: Fields Apart?

Oct 22nd, 2015 56m 6s

Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Department of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Seminar series on 19th October 2015. Co-written by Professor David Andrich. Introduced by Dr Therese Hopfenbeck. Educational assessments define what

Design and practice: a study of the design, build and occupation of new schools

Jun 22nd, 2015 58m 22s

Prof. Harry Daniels & Hau Ming Tse present an account of ways in which the discourses and practices of school design produce educational spaces which mediate and shape the discourses and practices of teaching and learning when the building is o

Questioning the UK government’s vision of higher education and social mobility

Jun 9th, 2015 41m 55s

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Susan James Relly, Assistant Director of SKOPE. Over recent years UK governments have expanded higher education and with it the supply of graduates. This expansion is linked to soci

What Kind of Learning do we want? 21st Century Learning, the Standards Agenda and Expert Learners

Jun 8th, 2015 1h 9m

How can we help students move from being novices to proficient apprentices to experts in the domain? Emeritis Professor of Education, Professor Gordon Stobart, lectures on the international policy rhetoric surrounding the need for 21st century

Predictability in High-Stakes Assessment: Students’ Approach to Learning

May 22nd, 2015 44m 10s

This study investigated the predictability of the Leaving Certificate examination in Ireland, where public accusations of predictable exams are of serious concern. The data combined survey responses of students' views of the examination, learn

Does being in care provide protection or increase risk? Understanding the outcomes of children in care

Apr 13th, 2015 1h 4m

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Janet Boddy, University of Sussex and Professor Donald Forrester, University of Bedfordshire. Professor Janet Boddy will talk about the European Perspectives on Outcomes and

Education, language and the social brain

Mar 2nd, 2015 1h 2m

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge. In recent years, researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology have proposed that we have evolved with “social brains” that enable us

Mobile learning in global health training. What about social justice?

Feb 19th, 2015 45m 25s

Niall discusses emerging findings from the ESRC/DFIDfunded project "mCHW: a mobile learning intervention for community health workers”. The talk will present the background to the project and position his research at the intersection of educ

Modalities and mechanisms of effective school inspections

Feb 6th, 2015 27m 55s

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Melanie Ehren, senior lecturer at the London Centre for Leadership and Learning. School inspections are assumed to have a great impact on what students learn and how they learn it b

The death of human capital: why there are no exceptions

Feb 5th, 2015 41m 51s

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath. Human capital theory has dominated the understanding of the relationship of education to work. It has retained plausibility until now due to

Production tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children

Jan 21st, 2015 55m 21s

Department of Education Public Seminar delivered by Professor Theodoros Marinis on sequential bilingual children. The seminar will look at the acquisition of definiteness in sequential bilingual (L2) children, children with Specific Language Im

The Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age

Jun 27th, 2014 52m 26s

This talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, reflects on a recent ethnographic study of a year 9 class – researched at school and at home over an academic year. We have been particularly interested in asking how young peopl

From Multiversity to Postmodern University

Jun 17th, 2014 52m 22s

This seminar presentation traces the emergence of postmodernist models of higher education institutions (HEIs) from Clark Kerr’s 1963 idea of the American multiversity to Zygmunt Bauman’s more recent notion of the postmodern university.

Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project.

Jun 17th, 2014 48m 8s

Prof. Kenneth Ruthven gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series The Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education (epiSTEMe) project designed and trialled a research-informed intervention which sought to incorporat