Events

Being able to read and create a variety of multimodal representations (including verbal language, gestures, and a range of visual representations) is essential to participate in discourses involving science – for science specialists as well as for citizenship.

First Session: The Anthropocene. The reading group is open to all. Please note change of date.

A bilingual seminar with Odin Lysaker and Camilla Haugli Nybråten, with the participation of Nayla Naoufal organised by Challenges of Sustainability in Educational Research group.

This seminar presents two projects with a common focus on recent developments in the international trend of school reform: “Policy Knowledge and Lesson Drawing in Nordic School Reform in an Era of International Comparison” and “REFORMED - Reforming Schools Globally: A Multiscalar Analysis of Autonomy and Accountability Policies in the Education Sector”.

Professor Gert Biesta (Brunel University London) lectures in this seminar organized by research group Curriculum Studies, Leadership and Educational Governance (CLEG).

In this seminar Natalie Papanastasiou from the University of Amsterdam presents the emerging findings from a 2-year individual postdoctoral project. The seminar draws on political ethnography of a European Commission (DG-EAC) Working Group which develops best practices in the area of school governance, and consists mainly of national representatives from ministries of education across Europe.  

Research groups SISCO and TEPEC invites you to this seminar with contributions from members of the project REDE (Representation and Participation in Science Discourses) advisory board: Senior lecturer Karim Hamza (Stockholm University), Professor Carolyn S. Wallace (Kennesaw State University) and Professor Hilda Borko (Stanford University).

Research groups Curriculum Studies, Leadership and Educational Governance (CLEG) and Large-scale Educational Assessment (LEA) welcomes you to this seminar. Speakers are Kjartan Steffensen and Lars Kirkebøen from Statistics Norway, and Tina Trujillo is from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education.

A seminar with Professor Anne Edwards (University of Oslo/University of Oxford). Edwards will present some of her latest work on agency in teacher education.

A seminar with Professor Jill Blackmore, Deakin University, Australia.

In this Brown Bag seminar, Dr. Tina Trujillo discusses her research that examines the political, social, and policy dimensions of the United States’ educational program that was originally intended to place short-term teachers in under-staffed schools, Teach For America (TFA).

Join us for the open lectures with Professor Thomas Popkewitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Professor Daniel Tröhler (University of Luxembourg) March 16th and 17th.

Join us for the open lectures of PhD course UV9357 - Developing functional scientific literacy by school science teaching.