Forum for Youth Participation and Democracy

‘An insider look at public policy development'

Dr. Henry Tam, Director of Cambridge University's Forum for Youth Participation & Democracy.

Room 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 18:30-19:30

Schools for democracy

Michael Fielding, Emeritus Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Instigating a Dialogue on Principles for Socially-Just Schooling

Professor Becky Francis, King’s College London, and Roehampton University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Speaking truth to power: Understanding postgraduate education research and the educational turn in South Africa's new century

Professor Robert Balfour, North West University, South Africa.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S3.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 10:00-11:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Filtering feedback in an internship: Perceptions of trainees and mentors

Dr James Badger, University of North Georgia.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S5.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 12:30-14:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Discussion leaders’ questions in the case method

Dr James Badger, University of North Georgia.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S5.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

How Can Education Promote Social Cohesion? The case of Lebanon

Maha Shuayb, Senior Fellow, Centre for Lebanese Studies, University of Cambridge.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S5.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Indigenous Knowledge Claims

Associate Professor Elizabeth Rata, Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

The Unintended Outcomes of Institutionalising Ethnicity: The Case of Maori Education in New Zealand

Associate Professor Elizabeth Rata, Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 15:30-17:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Short-term approaches and issues in counselling: Seminar 4

Dr. John McCarthy, Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12:30-13:45

From Cable Street to beyond the tree house: Inclusion as a singular approach to educational development

Professor Tony Booth, Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald McIntyre Building, room GS3).

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Short-term approaches and issues in counselling: Seminar 3

Dr. John McCarthy, Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S8.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 12:30-13:45

Capability Interest Reading Group - Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald McIntyre Building, room 2S8).

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Short-term approaches and issues in counselling: Seminar 2

Dr. John McCarthy, Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA)..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S8.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 12:30-13:45

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Short-term approaches and issues in counselling:Seminar 1

Dr. John McCarthy, Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S8.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 12:30-13:45

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Conflict Dialogue as Democratic Education:Conflictual Issues, Restorative Problem-Solving,and Student Diversity in Schools

Kathy Bickmore, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

Friday 18 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Social Theory Seminars

Feminism, pluralist democracy and agonistic politics

Professor Chantal Mouffe, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS5.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Working-Class Parents in the Era of Pedagogy of Autonomy and Family-School Partnership: A Perspective from Italy

Dr Paola Ravaioli, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald McIntyre Building, room GS4).

Thursday 09 December 2010, 12:30-14:00

Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education

Teachers professional learning and inclusive practice

Martyn Rouse, Professor of Social and Educational Inclusion and Director of the Inclusive Practice Project at the University of Aberdeen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road Room GS3, Donald McIntyre Building.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:00-15:30

Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education

An inclusive approach to the networking of knowledge about education in Southern contexts: the role of EENET

Dr. Susie Miles, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Manchester.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road Room GS3, Donald McIntyre Building.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Social Theory Seminars

Rethinking Resistance in Microsociological Analytics

Maria Tamboukou, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room 1S3.

Monday 25 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education

NEW CAPABILITY INTEREST GROUP

Capability Group Meeting.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road Room 2S7, Donald McIntyre Building.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 16:15-17:45

Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education

Capability and Disability

Dr. Lorella Terzi, Reader, School of Education, Roehampton University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road Room GS3, Donald McIntyre Building.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Social Theory Seminars

The Liberal-democratic Order and the Paradox of Peaking: Interpreting the Quasi-Public Gated Enclaves of Britain and South Africa

P. Stuart Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning, University of Tromsø..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS3.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

India Untouched - Documentary produced by an Indian NGO on the SOCIAL EXCLUSION of the lower castes (Dalits) in India

Professor Govardhan Wankhede, visiting fellow at the Asia Research Center.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS5.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 12:30-14:00

EED Book Launch

Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough & Dr Phil Gardner, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in Room GS1.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Conversations with Sharlene Swartz on building an academic career, post PhD

Dr Sharlene Swartz, graduate of the Faculty of Education, and senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in Room 2S8.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

‘Writing from the Mouth’ Arguments over Literacy and Discipline in the Early South African Nazaretha Church

Dr Joel Cabrita.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room 1S3.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:00-18:00

Researching youth moralities: New sociological direction or moribund dead-end?

Dr Sharlene Swartz, senior research specialist in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in Room GS1.

Monday 26 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Social inclusion and Citizenship in Danish and Swedish Secondary Schools: a multicultural and comparative perspective

Bolette Moldenhawer, Associate Professor of sociology of education at the University of Copenhagen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room 1S3.

Monday 26 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Community, Equality, and Comprehensive Education: Creating Democratic Secondary Education in a Globalized World

Barry Franklin, Professor of Curriculum History/Policy/Theory at Utah State University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in Room 2S8.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Conversations with Bolette Moldenhawer

Bolette Moldenhawer, University of Copenhagen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room 1S3.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Language and Nationalism in Tanzania

Dr Emma Hunter, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS4.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 16:00-18:00

Education and Empire in Africa 1890-1940: how liberals in the system impacted on policy, practice and development

Paul Goalen, Faculty of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS4.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00-18:00

Social Theory Seminars

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Professor Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Monday 23 November 2009, 16:00-18:00

On the possibility of outsider understanding: a conversation

David Bridges (University of Cambridge Faculty of Education) & Halvor Hoveid (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS5.

Monday 26 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Theory Seminars

The Rise of French Existentialism

Contact Susannah Lacon

Dr Patrick Baert - Reader in Social Theory,Sociology Department, Cambridge University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Theory Seminars

Putting Sylvia in her place: Ashton-Warner and progressive education in New Zealand, 1928-1958

Contact Susannah Lacon

Professor Sue Middleton - University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Imagining Community in the Suburbs: Space, Pedagogy and Power

Glenn C. Savage, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Monday 12 October 2009, 16:00-18:00

Visiting Scholar Seminars

Vocational studies in school – does it matter if I’m a girl and if I’m poor?

Professor John Polesel and Dr Veronica Volkoff, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

Monday 21 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

RECOUP open seminar series

'Can School Type Help to Identify the Supply and Demand for Education?'

The presentation will be for an hour, with Q&A session for 30 minutes, followed by coffee

Dr. Shailaja Fennell, Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Land Economy.

Faculty of Education, Room GS5, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 16:00-17:30

RECOUP open seminar series

'Can Educating Young People for Democratic Citizenship Help Reduce Poverty?'

Prof. Madeleine Arnot, Faculty of Education.

Faculty of Education, Room GS5, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

RECOUP open seminar series

'Forgotten Youth: Role of Education in the Lives of People with Disabilities'

Dr. Nidhi Singal, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, Faculty of Educaiton.

Faculty of Education, Room GS5, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

RECOUP open seminar series

'Does More Money for Education Help the Poor?'

Prof. Chris Colclough, RECOUP Director.

Faculty of Education, Room GS5, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:00-17:30