University-School partnerships for quality initial teacher education: Are pre-service teachers’ mentoring needs met?

All welcome. Please RSVP to Ruth Kuhn: rmk33@cam.ac.uk

Dr Rovincer Najjuma, CAPREX fellow from Makere University , Uganda .

MAB Boulind Rooms 6&7 Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Poetry with Finuala Dowling

Places limited. Please book online: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homerton-and-the-commonwealth-poetry-project-tickets-13676299179?utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventurl_text

Finuala Dowling.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Friday 14 November 2014, 15:00-20:00

MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?

Places are limited. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk.

Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

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

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 15:00-17:30

Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices

All welcome. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk

Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

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

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

CCE Seminar: Training Future Engineers: What Can We Learn from Twelve Outstanding Innovators?

Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education (Room 1S7), 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 16 September 2014, 17:00-18:30

Confronting History, the Archive and the 'Stranger' in Educational Research

Sophie Rudolph & Jo-Anne Dillabough.

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

Wednesday 16 July 2014, 16:00-18:00

Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Dr Amanda Keddie, The University of Queensland.

Room GS1, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 16:00-18:00

Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all. Lessons from the Education for All Global Monitoring Report

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Professor Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education; Welcome and introduction by Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor.

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

Thursday 19 June 2014, 17:00-18:30

Citizens re-shaping education through evidence-based annual learning accountability initiatives in Pakistan and beyond

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Monazza Aslam, University of London; Baela Jamil, Founder ASER Pakistan; Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge.

Room 1S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 17:00-18:30

Education for social justice: framing an agenda for disability research and action in the Global South

No fee, but registration is essential

Professor Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge; Professor Richard Rose, University of Northampton; Professor Helen Penn, University of East London.

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

Friday 06 June 2014, 09:30-16:00

Young people, optimism and nature: a fragile balance for education

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments from 12:30

Professor Margaret Robertson, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

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

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

High School Regulatory Environment and Student Disengagement

ALL WELCOME

Jeremy D. Finn, Graduate School of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

Room 1S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 26 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Language, Learning and Literacy in Africa

A programme is available via the CCE website (www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce)

Alicia Fentiman, University of Cambridge (Organiser).

Room TH3, Trumpington House, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Monday 24 March 2014, 09:00-17:00

Education in Africa

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Bjoern Hassler, Sara Hennessy, Georgie Horrell, Louis Major, Sue Swaffield, Molly Warrington (University of Cambridge); Rebecca Nambi (Cambridge University / Uganda); Euzobia Baine (Makerere University).

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

Monday 17 March 2014, 14:00-17:30

Public Private Partnerships and the implications for educating youth from poor communities: a vew from South Asia

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Dr Shailaja Fennell, University of Cambridge.

Room GS1, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Visiting African Fellows' Research Showcase (Hughes Hall/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Visiting African Fellows.

Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 14:00-16:30

The Economics of Religion in India

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Dr. Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

Room GS1, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

ZAPP Poetry Reading

To register please contact Sabine Edwards (sce28@cam.ac.uk)

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Isobel Dixon.

The Bamford Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:45-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

David Whitty, Producer at BBC World Service Radio.

ARC Cafe, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 17:30-18:45

New Visual Methodologies in Teaching Modern South Asian History

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments available

Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

Room GS1, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Learning from Good Practice: Raising School Performance in Developing Countries

ALL WELCOME - Refreshments from 15:45

Noah Yarrow, World Bank.

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

Monday 09 December 2013, 16:00-17:30

Young People Still Revolting into Style as a Political Act: Mixing and Breaking the Urban Codes of Austerity and Xenophobia

Note this seminar was originally advertised for 15.30 but the time was changed to avoid clashing with another talk.

Jo-Anne Dillabough and Charlotte Rochez, Faculty of Education.

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

Thursday 05 December 2013, 13:30-15:30

A Critical look at the One-Laptop-Per-Child Programme in developing countries

ALL WELCOME - bring your own lunch

Melissa Marsden, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

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

Monday 25 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Poetry and Education: "If I should have a daughter..."

ALL WELCOME - bring your own lunch

TEDx CCE (Independently organised TED screening).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Is the Right to Education (India) an Inclusive Act?

ALL WELCOME

Akanksha Bapna, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Commonwealth Education, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Re-imagining intercultural approaches to Pedagogy - CIAN Forum 4

Places are free but allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book a place please contact Bryony (bsjh2@cam.ac.uk) Tel: 01223 767680

Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education and Elizabeth MacKinlay, University of Queensland.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-16:00

Mapping intercultural arts research - CIAN Forum 1

Places are free but allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book a place please contact Bryony (bsjh2@cam.ac.uk) Tel: 01223 767680

Sam Curkpatrick, Australian National University; Liz Mackinlay, University of Queensland; Pam Burnard, University of Cambridge.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 September 2013, 13:00-16:00

Cracking the poetry code: Empowering teachers of Caribbean poetry

OPEN SEMINAR - ALL WELCOME

Sharon Philip, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 July 2013, 17:15-18:30

Attitudes to teacher involvement in change: Some Australian and other Commonwealth country data

ALL WELCOME: Refreshments available from 17:15

John Williamson, University of Tasmania.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 July 2013, 17:15-18:30

Implications of the Leadership for Learning (LfL) for Teacher Education in Ghana: Training, retraining and retaining

OPEN SEMINAR - ALL WELCOME

Asare Johnson, Tamale College of Education, Ghana and CCE Visiting Commonwealth Fellow.

Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 July 2013, 14:30-17:00

Improving Primary Teacher Education: A Malawi Case

ALL WELCOME: Refreshments available from 17:15

Terry Allsop.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 17:15-18:30

Teaching in the Bed of Procrustes: Macho Culture and Gendered Teacher-Student Interactions in Secondary Education

Please contact Ruth Kuhn (rmk33@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend

Dr Dimitri Van Maele, Ellen Huyge & Els Consuegra. Supervisors: Prof Dr Nadine Engels & Prof Dr Mieke Van Houtte.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

Masculinities / Femininities in Education

Please contact Ruth Kuhn (rmk33@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend

Saskia Aerts & Wendelien Van Tieghem. Supervisor: Prof Dr Mieke Van Houtte.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Preparing teachers for early learning in Sub Saharan African

ALL WELCOME

John Pryor, Reader in Education at the University of Sussex and Jo Westbrook, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sussex.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Educating Teachers in Developing World Contexts: The imperative for radical reform

ALL WELCOME: Refreshments available from 17:15

Bob Moon, Emeritus Professor of Education: The Open University.

Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2013, 17:15-18:30

Transnational fears about marginalized young people at the borders of the nation

ALL WELCOME: Refreshments available from 17:15

Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough, University of Cambridge and Dr Caroline Oliver, University of Oxford.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 17:15-18:30

Education in Countries Emerging from Conflict in Africa

ALL WELCOME: Refreshments available from 17:15

Alicia Fentiman.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Book Launch: A Common Wealth of Learning: Millennium Development Goals Revisited

For more information, or to attend, please contact Sally Roach (saer2@cam.ac.uk); 01223 767516

Centre for Commonwealth Education - Book Launch.

Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

HIV/AIDS and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

ALL WELCOME (Bring your lunch)

Dr Susan Kiragu, Centre for Commonwealth Education, University of Cambridge.

Room GS1 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 12:30-13:30

Opportunities, Risks and Challenges in Paradise: Educational Issues for the Future in Antigua and Barbuda

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments from 16:45)

Patricia George, Ministry of Education, Antigua and Barbuda.

Room GS1 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

The Use of Evidence to Improve Education and Serve the Public Good

Adrienne Alton-Lee, Chief Education Adviser for the New Zealand Ministry of Education's Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) Programme.

Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Introducing narrative assessment for learners with high needs: A CHAT analysis of a professional development initiative that simultaneously initiates and impedes change

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments available)

Dr. Roseanna Bourke, School of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand and Dr. Mandia Mentis, School of Education, Albany Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Promoting educational development: lessons with the Index for Inclusion locally and internationally

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments available)

Professor Tony Booth, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Technology and development: the contribution of OER

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments available)

Tim Unwin, CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS4.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Seminar and Book Launch of Old enough to know - Consulting Children about sex education in Africa

Please email to book a place.

Colleen McLaughlin, Susan Kiragu and Mary Cobbett, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS5.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Learning to aspire: the cross-spatial learning practices and aspirations of South African township youth

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments available)

Adam Cooper, University of Stellenbosch.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS4.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Research in the Global South: Educational Researchers' Experience (Part Two of the CEC/Faculty of Education Conference: Education and the Transformation of Young Women's Lives: Commonwealth Perspectives)

Online registration: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=38&modid=2&compid=1

Dr. Nidhi Singal, University of Cambridge; Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge; Dr. Colleen McLaughlin, University of Cambridge; Mike Younger, Centre for Commonwealth Education.

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

Saturday 29 October 2011, 10:00-12:30

Education and the transformation of young women's lives: Commonwealth perspectives

See programme and online registration

Professor Elaine Unterhalter, Institute of Education, University of London; Professor Chris Colclough, University of Cambridge; Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:00-18:30

Implementation of the 'Leadership for Learning' programme in Ghana: Evaluation of progress in four primary schools

ALL WELCOME

Suseela Malakolunthu, Associate Professor at the University of Malaya and visiting scholar at CCE.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room 1S3.

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 16:30-18:00

Developing Culturally Responsive Leadership for Multi-ethnic Schools: Lessons from Malaysia

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments available)

Suseela Malakolunthu, Associate Professor at the University of Malaya and visiting scholar at CCE.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room 1S3.

Wednesday 22 June 2011, 17:00-18:30

Leadership for Learning: The Cambridge Network

Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past

Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector University of the Free State, South Africa.

GS5, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 12 April 2011, 13:30-15:00

Mobile Technologies for Education: The experience in the developing world

To find out more and to RSVP, please visit: http://m-education.eventbrite.com/

Panel Discussion (see below).

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS4.

Wednesday 30 March 2011, 18:30-20:30

Challenges for mathematics education in Africa

If you wish to attend please contact Sally Roach (saer@cam.ac.uk).

Toni Beardon, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Next Einstein Initiative (AIMSNEI).

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

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 11:00-12:30

CCE/EED Seminar and Film Screening of Camfed International's "Where the Water meets the Sky"

ALL WELCOME (Refreshments from 16:45)

Film screening and discussion on HIV / AIDS in Africa led by Colleen McLaughlin.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Internationalisation of Research Writing Workshop. Third Workshop in series sponsored by BAICE, UEA (Norwich), CCE/CEID (Faculty of Education, Cambridge)

Participation is limited to those who attended the earlier workshops held in May/June 2009. If you wish to attend please contact Sally Roach (saer2@cam.ac.uk) by 09:00 on Monday 11th January.

Workshop led by: Dr. Anna Robinson-Pant.

University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Monday 25 January 2010, 10:00-16:00