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ICARE CONFERENCE 2005:
THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY

EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MMU 12-14 SEPTEMBER 2005

ICARE (International Centres for Applied Research in Education) is a collective of researchers at MMU (ESRI), The Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) at the University of East Anglia, Deakin University, Australia and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. This international conference is the latest in an ongoing programme of joint seminars, research projects, scholarly exchanges and research degree training . More information about ICARE

PROGRAMME

Monday September 12

Welcome Reception hosted by Professor Michael Totterdell, Director of the Institute of Education

Tuesday September 13

Introduction: Bridget Somekh (MMU) and Tom Schwandt ( Illinois)

Session One: Identity Constructions and Accountability in the context of Globalisation

Fazal Rizvi ( Illinois): Internationalization of Educational Research

Jennifer Greene ( Illinois): Democratic accountability

Muriel Wells (Deakin): Professional identity and the contemporary university: a culture of control, accountability & virtuality

John Schostak (MMU): Politics, knowledge, identity and community: the methodologist as hitch hiker

Jill Blackmore (Deakin): (Ac)counting for educational research: transnational issues in policy and research

Session Two: Reconstructing Meaning through Difference

Gaby Weiner ( Umea): Out of the Ruins: Feminist pedagogy in recovery

Lorna Roberts (MMU): Becoming a Black Researcher: reflections on racialised identity and knowledge production

Tony Brown (MMU): Desire and drive in researcher subjectivity

Annette Gough (RMIT, Aus): Why is change so hard in the middle years?

Session Three: Keynote Presentation

Dame Marilyn Strathern , William Wyse Professor of Anthropology, Cambridge ‘Measures of Usefulness: A Diatribe’

Session Four: Contemporary Knowledge Production

Ian Stronach (MMU): Is contemporary knowledge a matter/metaphor of production or seduction?

Tom Schwandt ( Illinois): Knowing about knowing or knowing about being and doing?

Leonie Rowan (Deakin): Knowledge creation – and – theorising innovation

Bridget Somekh (MMU): Speculative knowledge: scenarios for the future


Wednesday September 14

Session Five: Contstructing Knowledge through Context and Relationships

Susan Noffke ( Illinois): “Out of harm’s way”: Ethics and context in action research

Matthew Pearson (MMU): "Let's have a look around": some reflections on recruiting schools and teachers to an action research project.

Nigel Calder ( Waikato): A fragmented view of mathematical research

Noel Gough ( Canberra): Internationalisation, globalisation, and quality audits: an empire of the mind?

Session Six: Pedagogies for Contemporary Knowledge

John Elliott (CARE, UEA): A pedagogy for freedom: from human capital to capability theory as the driver for education

Christine O’Hanlon (UEA): The process, the product and the experiment - balance and validity in the pedagogy of action research

Rob Walker (UEA): Revisiting Lawrence Stenhouse on libraries and the classroom

Barbara Kamler (Deakin): Rethinking doctoral writing as text work and identity work.

Closing plenary discussion: led by Bridget Somekh and Tom Schwandt