Education Studies News and Events

On the 25th of January, why not come to ‘Your Story Starts Here’ in the SU Atrium and Copper Rooms 1, 4-6pm. This fun and informal event will showcase the variety of exciting opportunities that you can take part in to make the most of your time at Warwick.

All seminars take place in C1.11 in the Social Sciences building from 1-2pm unless otherwise stated. All University students and staff welcome!

Dr Z Nicolazzo (Northern Illinois University): Imagining a Trans* Epistemology: Unlearning Gender Binary Discourse in Education’

Monday 6th June: 12:30-1pm light lunch, 1-2:15pm seminar and discussion

Postsecondary institutions of education, similar to the broader society in which they are embedded, are steeped in – and further – trans* oppression. Additionally, the knowledge produced at these institutions can be seen as inflected with trans* oppression, and as continuing to reify the notion that trans* lives and experiences are abject, abnormal, unintelligible, and otherwise impossible. In this presentation, Dr Nicolazzo builds from the work of Patton (2016), Brayboy (2005), Bernal (2002), Ferguson (2012), and Spade (2015) to propose an epistemology that seeks to “[re]distribute the possibilities, potentialities, and life chances” for trans* people. Dr Nicolazzo will also discuss how the imagining of such a trans* epistemological stance may help educators unlearn the gender binary illogic in which they collude, thereby (re)shaping education as liberatory.

Please sign up here for purposes of ordering refreshments

About Z Nicolazzo:

Dr. Z Nicolazzo is Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University, US. Z gained hir PhD in Student Affairs in Higher Education, with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Miami University in 2015, before taking up the post at NIU. Z’s research agenda is focused on mapping gender across higher education contexts, with particular attention to trans* students, as well as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Z’s book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, which details hir 18-month ethnographic research project alongside trans* university students in the United States, is forthcoming from Stylus Publishing (2016). http://cedu.niu.edu/cahe/about/faculty/z-nicolazzo.shtml

Dr Z Nicolazzo will be joining the Centre for Education Studies (CES), University of Warwick on an IAS-funded Residential Fellowship, 6-10 June 2016. Please click here for more information on the events that will take place during hir visit. If you have any questions about the events, please contact Dr Emily Henderson (e.henderson@warwick.ac.uk).

Depictions of conferences as being dull and exhausting make it ‘almost impossible’ to imagine them as places of intellectual engagement, Dr Emily Henderson of CES warns.

4th-5th March 2016

This conference is aimed at all those involved in supporting learning of mathematics. It aims to bring together people working to promote mathematical resilience in learners, whether that be as teachers or those in an educational institution, or parents or others at home.

Earlier this year BERA put out an open call to members to submit proposals for the new BERA Research Commissions, with Jo Trowsdale, Principle Teaching Fellow in CES being involved in one of the three winning proposals.