Education Studies News and Events

The Philosophy of Education of Great Britain Annual Conference will be held from 31st March-2nd April at New College, Oxford. CES Assistant Professor Dr Emma Williams is a keynote speaker at the conference along with with Professor James Tooley (Newcastle University, UK) and Professor Jan Masschelein, (University of Leuven, Belgium). Dr Emma Willaims will be exploring ideas from her book 'The Ways We Think' in relation to the kind of thinking that can and should be 'common' to schools today.

More details about the conference can be found here.

Read CES Undergraduate Student Jasmine Steen's latest blog on down time at University.

Read the blog here.

Exploring children’s encounters with ‘the political’ at home: early findings from a comparative ethnography on childhood and public life

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas (University of Sussex)

Date: Wednesday 8th March 2017

Time: 1pm - 2.30pm

Venue: C1.11/15

Email L.Anderson.1@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to attend the seminar.

The importance of political talk for democratic well-being, and its endurance over time, has long been established both theoretically and empirically. The role of political talk is also a recognised mediator of political socialisation, and children’s initial encounters with the political. In this presentation, I explore the dynamics of political talk in family life with a particular focus on the temporality of political talk. Drawing on a sub-sample of families from a comparative ethnography exploring the relationships between childhood and public life in three cities (Athens, Hyderabad, London), I explore what political talk looks like across generations and in particular how it emerges in the lives of younger children. The analysis contributes to an understanding of the emergence and dynamics of political talk across time and suggests that before political talk becomes categorised as such, it often emerges in gestures that eschew easy categorisation.

Biography

Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sussex and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Connectors Study, a study that looks at the relationship between childhood and public life. She has carried out research on systems for social support especially for children, young people and families experiencing difficulties in their lives (domestic violence, social exclusion, and mental health) and has written on the lived experience of participating in such support systems. Her recent research has turned towards understanding encounters, experiences, and engagements with ’the political’ in everyday childhoods and family life in different national-cultural contexts. You can read more about the Connectors Study here: https://connectorsstudy.wordpress.com

The Centre for Education Studies of the University Of Warwick invites you to its fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, 'Education in a Changing World', on Saturday, 6th May 2017, in the Faculty of Social Sciences Building.

This conference is open to taught and research postgraduate students from all universities and departments whose research connects with education in its broadest sense. PGR students at any stage of their research are invited to submit abstracts for presentations and posters, that address the conference's theme of education in a changing world. Presentations across different fields of research are welcome, with a focus on conceptual issues, research design or findings.

PGR students have the opportunity to present work and receive feedback in a diverse, constructive and academically rigorous environment, whilst expanding their network and making cross-disciplinary connections. A prize for best abstract will be awarded based on votes on the conference day.

The abstract submission deadline is 24th March 2017. Please submit 300-400 words using the registration form here. For posters please submit a shorter 100-200 words description.

Registration deadline (presenter/ participant): 2nd April 2017.

Find out more about the event HERE.

“A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana, India”

Applications are now invited for a fully-funded doctoral studentship to commence in October 2017. The studentship is embedded in a research project on gender and educational success in Haryana, India, which is funded by the Fair Chance Foundation. The studentship is co-funded by Fair Chance Foundation and the University of Warwick’s Collaborative Postgraduate Research Scholarships (WCPRS) scheme. The studentship reflects the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of international leaders in social science research. Fair Chance Foundation, which was founded by a Warwick alumnus, is committed to improving the future livelihoods of disadvantaged children and young adults through education. The Fair Chance Foundation, which funds several projects in India, helps by both directly funding education, and by promoting education as a means to a better life. The principal goals of Fair Chance Foundation are to: research attitudes towards education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; develop interventions which create desire for education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; formally research and publish interventions and outcomes; develop guides and promote the research to help policy makers make informed choices about which interventions are likely to have most impact; provide direct support to children and young adults.