Education Studies News and Events

We would like to congratulate all of our Teach First students on their 2016 graduation. Dr Justine Mercer and Dr Janet Harvey, course leaders of the MA in Educational Leadership (Teach First), said “We are delighted that so many Teach First students were able to graduate with Teach First Founder and CEO, Brett Wigdortz.”

Last weekend saw the inaugural Centre for Education Studies’ residential study weekend take place in the stunning setting of Gregynog Hall in the mid-Wales countryside.

Pontso recently joined the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick as an associate professor in educational leadership. Her new role involves leading the MA Educational Leadership and Management as well as teaching and participating in research activities in the department. Pontso has previously worked at universities in South Africa, Canada and the UK, leading postgraduate and international programmes on educational leadership and management and thoroughly enjoyed working with international students to provide a perfect cross-cultural learning situation.

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.

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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).