Research Activities
ICARE CONFERENCE 2005: THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY
Manchester Metropolitan University, 12 – 14 September 2005
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 Differenc
- 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
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