CRITICAL THINKING FOR DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION –
MOVING FROM EVALUATION TO RESEARCH
Saturday October 3rd and Sunday October 4th, 2009
DRAFT SCHEDULE
Saturday October 3rd, 2009
9.00 – 9.30Registration
9.30- 9.45Welcome and Introductions to the Conference by
Dr. Su-ming Khoo , National University of Ireland, Galway and
Dr. Douglas Bourn, Institute of Education, UK
9.45 – 11.00Session I Plenary ‘From Practice to an approach towards Learning’
Chair:Dr. Douglas Bourn
Speakers:Dr HelmuthHartmeyer, Austrian Development Agency and Chair of
Global Education Network Europe,
Matthias Fiedler, Director Irish Development Education Association
and an Irish Aid Representative(TBC)
11.00 – 11.30Coffee
11.30- 1.00Parallel Session 1A ‘Global Partnerships
Chair:Son Gyoh
Presentation 1:Global Partnerships as sites for mutual learning: teacher training
through N-S study visits;
Presenter:Dr Fran Martin
Presentation 2: A Southern perspective on School linking: Learning from Linking?
Presenter:Alison Leonard
Presentation 3:Education in a Global Space: possible framings and responses to calls
for ‘Education for Global Citizenship’.
Presenters:Greg Mannion and Hamish Ross
11.30-1.00Parallel Session 1B ‘Strategies for Change: Case Studies’.
Chair:Matthias Fiedler
Presentation 1:The difficulties of practicing development education:
The case of Greece.
Presenter:Marialena Tsioli
Presentation 2:Views on the development of Education for Sustainable Development
and Global Citizenship in Wales;
Presenters:Dr. David Norcliffe and Sheila Bennell
Presentation 3Global citizen – global consumer.Lessons learned from Poland.
Presenter:Kasia Szeniawska
Presentation 4:Teacher Educators as Agents of Change for Education for Sustainable
Development – The Case of LesothoCollege of Education.
Presenter:Jobo Mantoetse
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15Session 2 Plenary ‘ Reflections on evaluation and research’
Chair:Dr. Su-ming Khoo
Speakers:Professor William Scott , Universiy of Bath, Englandand
Dr. Claudia Bergmüller, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-
Nürnberg
3.15 – 3.30 Coffee
3.30 – 5.15Parallel Session 2A ‘Higher Education’
Chair:Nicole Blum
Presentation 1.Conscientisation for Global Doctors:
Education for development in Medicine.
Presenter:Dr Raul Pardinaz-Solis
Presentation 2.Ethical Globalisation or Privileged Internationalisation?
Presenter:Dr. Su-ming Khoo
Presentation 3.A critical examination of the curriculum and motivation for the
delivery of the global dimension in British HEIs offering youth and community work courses.
Presenter:Momodou Sallah
3.30 – 5.15Parallel Session2B ‘Critical Thinking: Tools and Approaches’
Chair:Pete Mullineux
Presentation 1.Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning: A review of impactassessment tools for education for sustainable development.
Presenter:Nancy Serrano.
Presentation 2.Evaluation as research or research as evaluation.
Presenter:Dr. Anne Dolan and Susan Gallewy;
Presenter 3.Playing the Game? Using Occupational Standards, subject benchmarks
and professional validation requirements to create a global dimension.
Presenter;Paul Adams.
5.15 – 6.00Challenges for Research in Global Learning and Development
Education Dr Douglas Bourn
7.30Conference Dinner
Sunday October 4th, 2009
9.30 – 11.00Session 3 Plenary.
Chair:Dr. Su-ming Khoo
SpeakersProf Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, DST/NRF South African Research
Chair in Development Education, University of South Africaand
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, School of Maori, Social and Cultural Studies inEducation, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 1.00Parallel Session 3A ‘Representing the South’.
Chair:Dr. Vanessa Andreotti,
Presentation 1.Evaluation Findings from ‘Makutano Junction in UK Schools Project’.
Presenters:Kate Llyod Morgan and Helen Garforth
Presenation 2.The role of research and learning in mainstreaming Global southperspectives.
Presenter:Son Gyoh
Presentation 3.LUCAS ‘African Voices’ project: A critical discussion.
Presenters:Richard Borowski and Jane Plastow
11.30 – 1.00Parallel Session 3B ‘Life Experiences: The Personal and the
Professional’.
Chair:Clíonadh O’ Keeffe
Presentation 1.Critical Thinking in cross-disciplinary games: language for
development purposes.
Presenter:Maureen Ellis
Presenation 2.Feeling our way.
Presenter:Pete Mullineux
Presentation 3.An Autobiographical Exploration of Development and Global Issues
Education..
Presenter:Tania Ramalho
1.00 – 2.00Lunch
2.00 – 3.00Panel Session‘Critical Thinking for Development Education
Moving from Evaluation to Research
Chair:Dr. Su-ming Khoo
Discussants:Representatives from policy-making,practice and research
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