CPIn Archives: Academic Events in
2001/2002
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| Speaker |
Time and Date |
Place |
Title of Presentation |
| Dr. Jill Adler |
Friday, May 10, 2002; 2:00-3:30pm |
Room 358, Ed South |
Mathematics Teacher Education in
South Africa |
| Dr. William
E. Rees |
Thursday, 25 April, 2002; 3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 122. Ed South |
Globalization
and Trade: The Protesters have a Point |
| Norm Friesen |
Friday, 12 April, 2002; 3:00 - 4:30pm |
Room 122. Ed South |
Expectations and Realities: the Promise and Peril of
Technology in Teaching |
| Dr. Harold Pearse |
Friday, 8 March, 2002; 2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 358. Ed South |
Artist/Researcher/Teacher:
Arts Based Research as Living Inquiry |
1. Speaker: Dr. Jill
Adler, Wits-Sentrachem Chair of Mathematics Education Development,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South
Africa.
Title of Presentation: Mathematics
Teacher Education in South Africa
Time and Date: Friday, 10 May, 2002;
2:00 - 3:30pm
Place: Room 358. Ed South
About
the speaker: Professor Jill Adler
holds the Wits-Sentrachem Chair of Mathematics Education Development at
the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where
she is also Chairperson of the School of Science and Mathematics
Education. Her research foci are teaching mathematics in multilingual
classrooms and mathematics teacher education and professional
development. She has had two books recently published,
Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms (Kluwer, Dordrecht,
2001) and Challenges of Teacher
Development: an Investigation of Take-up in South Africa, Jill Adler
and Yvonne Reed (eds)(Van Schaik Publishers. Pretoria, 2002).
Abstract:
In
this seminar, Dr. Jill Adler will talk about some current research in
mathematics teacher education (particularly professional development) in
South Africa. She will focus on a past and a current research projects
in this field, locating these first in the South African context of
teacher education policy, research and practice, and then too in the
wider field of teacher education. She will structure the selection of
issues in relation to what might be useful and interesting to others
outside of South Africa. Some
particular issues I plan to discuss will be: (1) how and what was
afforded and constrained in the first research project where we were
working across subjects (mathematics, science and English Language); (2)
Particular issues that emerged as 'new' resources (both material and
cultural) are taken up by teachers; (3) particular difficulties (from a
research point of view) of relating teachers' up-take in terms of
subject knowledge to their classroom practice; (4) the current
challenge, both in North America and South Africa, of
conceptualizing the nature of 'mathematics for teaching',
or 'teachers' mathematics'. She will share how they are currently
thinking about this, and why.
2. Speaker: Mr. Norm Friesen, Information
Architect, University of Alberta
Title of Presentation: Expectations and Realities:
the Promise and Peril of Technology in Teaching
Time and Date: Friday, 12 April, 2002;
3:00 - 4:30pm
Place: Room 122. Ed South
About the speaker: Norm Friesen has been working in the area of
instructional Web development at the University of Alberta since 1997.
Since the winter of 2000, he has been involved in the CAREO (www.careo.org)
and BELLE (www.netera.ca/belle)
Projects, which have as their goal the creation of freely accessible,
Web-based collections of postsecondary teaching resources.
Previously, Norm has worked as a librarian, teacher, and instructional
assistant. His academic credentials include a Master's degree in
Library and Information Studies from
the University of Alberta and a Masters in German Literature from the
Johns Hopkins University. Norm is currently completing his PhD in
Secondary Education at the University of Alberta.
Abstract: New computer and Internet technologies are commonly
believed to hold great potential for higher education. The
extent of this optimism is given forceful expression through terms such as
"online course," "virtual university" or
"e-learning" --formulations that suggest a seamless and mutually
reinforcing relationship between new technologies and more familiar
educational forms and goals. Through
his experiences in supporting such technologies at the
University
of
Alberta
and his PhD research in the Faculty of Education, Norm Friesen has been
developing critical, phenomenologically-based understandings of the
experience of educational technology use.
The purpose of this talk is to provide a brief overview of emerging
and recent trends in these technologies in
Canada
, and to explore some of the ideas that Norm is developing in his
research.
3. Speaker: Dr.
William E. Rees, Professor, School
of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), University
of British Columbia
Title of Presentation: Globalization
and Trade: The Protesters have a Point
Time and Date: Thursday, 25 April, 2002; 3:30 - 5:00pm
Place: Room 122. Ed South
About the speaker: William
Rees has taught at the University of British Columbia since 1969-70 and is
currently Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning. His
teaching and research emphasize global environmental trends and the
ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. He is
best known in this field for his invention of 'ecological footprint
analysis', a quantitative tool that estimates humanity's ecological impact
on the ecosphere in terms of appropriated ecosystem (land and water) area.
This research reveals the fundamental incompatibility between continued
material economic growth and ecological security. Dr. Rees is currently a
co-investigator in the 'Global Integrity Project', oriented toward
determining the necessary ecological conditions for biodiversity
preservation. Dr. Rees was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize (1996) in
acknowledgement of his research achievements.
Abstract: In
this presentation, Dr. Rees will explore in a seminar format the impact of
the current neo-liberal global trade agenda. Referring to his
eco-footprints research, he will examine how the trade agenda is a masked
attempt to expand northern consumption to draw on progressively larger
territories of the Earth, thereby driving global inequities, poverty, and
ecological degradation. He will point out how much of this is obscured by
a culture of denial that refuses to recognize the terrible toll of our
excesses on the future sustainability of the Earth. In this respect, he
argues, the protesters have a point because the policy makers seem
unwilling to listen to reasoned voices calling for restraint, and instead
continue to promote an agenda of continued global economic development. He
will dialogue with participants on the need to address this problem
through cultural transformation and education.
4. Speaker: Dr. Harold Pearse, Adjunct Professor,
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Title of Presentation: Artist/Researcher/Teacher:
Arts Based Research as Living Inquiry
Time and Date: Friday, 8 March, 2002; 2:00 - 3:30pm
Place: Room 358. Ed South
About the speaker: Dr. Harold Pearse has recently moved to
Edmonton from Halifax where from 1971 to 2001 he taught Art Education at
the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Educated at the University of
British Columbia (BED), Sir George Williams University, Montreal, (MA) and
the Atlantic Institute of Education at Dalhousie University, Halifax, with
course work at U of A (Ph.D.), Dr. Pearse has delivered numerous
presentations, lectures and workshops at local, national and international
venues. He has authored` numerous articles on aspects of art education for
American and Canadian journals and has served as editor of the Journal
of Social Theory and Art Education and on the Editorial Board of Studies in Art Education. He is currently Director of Publications
and Co-President of the Canadian Society for Education Through Art. Harold
Pearse is a practicing artist with ten solo exhibitions, numerous group
exhibitions and work in public and
private collections.
Abstract: Subtitled “Putting my Money where my Praxis”,
this presentation examines the dynamic interaction of the roles and
personae of artist, researcher and teacher in the life and practice of one
individual. It shows how these seemingly separate entities connect,
integrate, synthesize (and disperse) as theory/research,
teaching/learning, and art/making, or in Aristotle’s terms, theoria
(knowing), praxis (doing) and poesis
(making). Through words and images the artist/researcher /teacher explores
notions of praxis, art and being, autoethnography and self portraiture. Ideas
are illustrated by examples from his research, his art and his teaching,
all linked by the concept of time.
Academic Events in the
Fall 2001
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Fall
2001 Lecture Series
1.
Speaker: Dr. Brigitte
Hipfl, Professor,
Dept.
of Media and Communication Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt,
Austria
Title
of Presentation: "'Shifting
Borders' - a case study of identity discourses in a European
border region"
Time
and Date: Friday, 30 November 2001; 2:00-3:30pm.
Place:
Room 122, Education South
About
the speaker:
Dr.
Brigitte Hipfl had studied
psychology and education at the University of Graz, Austria, (PhD. 1980).
She then moved into media and communication studies where her research and
teaching is
concerned with gender issues,
media and cultural
studies, and research methodologies. Her postdoctoral thesis is in media
studies (1998). Currently she is the chair of the Austrian Society of
Communication. Her books include Sündiger Genuß? Filmerfahrungen von
Frauen (with Frigga Haug, Argument, Hamburg, 1996), Bewegte Identitäten
- Medien in transkulturellen Kontexten (with Brigitta Busch and Kevin
Robins, Drave, Klagenfurt), and Subjekt der Medien (forthcoming,
Westdeutscher Verlag).
Abstract:
The
presentation will focus on first/preliminary results from a research
project on "Border Identities" funded by the European Union.
In particular, the key narratives of interviews taken in an
Austrian/Slovenian border region will be examined as exemplary forms of
the informants' struggle for identity and practices of othering.
2. Speaker: Dr. Deborah Britzman, Professor,
Faculty of Education, York University
Title
of Presentation: "Loneliness in Education: Toward a
Psychoanalytic Inquiry"
Time
and Date: Friday, 16 November 2001; 2:00-3:30pm.
Place:
Room 122, Education South
About
the speaker:
Dr. Deborah Britzman is a Professor in the
Faculty of Education and holds cross appointments in Social and Political
Thought, Women's Studies, and Psychology. She is presently serving as
Graduate Director for the Social and Political Thought Program at York
University. Professor Britzman writes in the areas of psychoanalysis and
education, studies in contemporary theory and difficult knowledge in
education, and in teacher education. She is the author of two books, Practice
Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach (SUNY, 1991),
and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry
of Learning (SUNY 1998). She has recently completed a book-length
manuscript titled, After Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and
Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning.
Abstract:
Working with the theories
of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud and their views on loneliness, this paper
explores the relation between loneliness and poignant thinking by way of
literature, theory, and the psychoanalytic archive. The paper is part of a
new manuscript entitled "After Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein,
and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning."
3.
Speaker: Dr. Dennis
Sumara
, Associate
Professor, Faculty of
Education, University of Alberta
Title
of Presentation: "Interpreting Identities:
Advancing Literary Anthropology as a Research Method"
Time
and Date: Friday, 28 September 2001;
1:00-2:30pm.
Place:
Room 122, Education South
ABSTRACT:
This lecture advances a literary anthropology as a research method. In
addition to presenting a performance text that functions as a report of
the author's engagements with literary fiction, and with philosophical,
theoretical, and historical writings, the lecture provides a theoretical
and historical overview of literary anthropology as a research method. The
lecture concludes with a discussion of what literary anthropological
methods might contribute to research in the human sciences.
ABOUT
THE SPEAKER: Dennis J. Sumara is an Associate Professor in the Faculty
of Education. He is author of Private Readings in Public: Schooling
the Literary Imagination (New York: Peter Lang) and co-author of Engaging
Minds: Learning and Teaching in a Complex World (Mahwah, NJ: L.
Erlbaum & Associates). His work is developed around studies of
literary engagements; with particular attention to the ways they function
to create sites for learning and interpretation. His latest work, Why
Reading Literature in Schools Still Matters: Learning to Create Insight
with Literary Engagements, is in press with L. Erlbaum &
Associates.
4. Speaker: Dr. Keming
Hao, First
Vice-President of China Education Association for International Exchange,
Chairperson of China Society of Educational Development Strategies,
Deputy-Head of China National Leading Group of Educational Science
Planning, and Concurrent Professor of Peking University, People's Republic
of China
Title
of Presentation: Current Conditions and Prospects in Reform and
Development of China's Higher Education
Time
and Date: September 14, Friday, 2001, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Place:
Room 122, Education South