BAICE 2016 Preliminary Conference Programme...BAICE 2016 Preliminary Conference Programme SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2016 Time Event Venue Suggested arrival for delegates Cavendish Hall,

BAICE 2016

Preliminary Conference Programme

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2016

Time Event Venue

Suggested arrival for delegates

Cavendish Hall, University of Nottingham (University Park Campus)

MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2016

REGISTRATION OPENS 9:00 am - Foyer, Sir Clive Grainger Building (Refreshments served)

Session Time Presentation Title Presenter(s) Session Chair

Venue

WELCOME and OPENING

9:45 – 10:00

Welcome and conference opening

Andy Noyes (Head of School of Education, University of Nottingham)

Caroline Dyer (Chair of BAICE)

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PLENARY 10:00- 11:30

Achieving equity and quality in learning: Critical Challenges

Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow); Nancy Kendall (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Tristan McCowan (UCL IOE); Mario Novelli (University of Sussex)

Simon McGrath

A

11:30 – 13:00

Intercultural experiences of ‘quality education’: perspectives from Indigenous communities

David A. Turner (University of South Wales)- Incommensurability by any other name…: An exploration of the concept of 'indigenous knowledge

Juan Oyarzun (UCL IOE)- Human Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Indigenous Higher Education in Latin America

Peter Sutoris (Cambridge University)- Scaling up ‘Quality’: An ethnography of cross-cultural implementation of Education for Sustainable Development

Marika Tsolakis (UCL IOE)

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The internationalisation of higher education: comparative critiques

Jane Evison & Lucy Bailey (University of Nottingham)- Professional discursive identities of faculty in two “international universities” in Thailand and Vietnam

Nicola Savvides, (Kings College London) & Juliet Thondhlana, (University of Nottingham) -

Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham)

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Internationalising the Curriculum: Promoting Quality Learning for All?

Sílvia Azevedo, Maria João Brandão & António Magalhães (University of Porto) - The Quality Concept in the Recontextualisation Process in International Development Cooperation in Higher Education Field

Grassroots perspectives on citizen-led learning assessments

Sehar Saeed (ASER Pakistan) - Expanding citizen voice in education systems accountability: evidence from the citizen-led learning assessments movement

Jemima Morrow (Cambridge Education) - School Improvement and Governance in the DRC: Where to start?

Padmini Iyer and Rhiannon Moore (Young Lives, University of Oxford) - Measuring learning quality in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: from primary to secondary school effectiveness

Bronwen Magrath (University of Nottingham)

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School choice and private education in India

Eleanor Gurney (King’s College London) - Education quality and schooling choice processes: parental perspectives

Kamlesh Narwana (University of Delhi) - Quest for Quality and Changing School Choice: Exploring the Role of Medium of Instruction

Richa Goswami (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) - Listening to parents: Methodological concerns

Margo O’Sullivan (UNICEF China)

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LUNCH (13:00 – 13:45) – Foyer, Clive Grainger Building

Session Time Presentation Title Presenter(s) Session Chair Venue

B

13:45 – 15:15

Quality teaching, learning and research in higher education: international perspectives

Olena Fimyar (University of Cambridge) Tetyana Modestova (Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, Ukraine) and Iryna Myhovych (Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine) Research Capacity-Building in Teaching-Intensive HEIs: A case study of Displaced Universities Ukraine

Anupap Thupa-ang (Suan Dusit Univeristy) - Quality of Teaching in Higher Education in Thailand: an exploration of academic perspectives

Juliet Thondhlana (University of Nottingham)

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Jane Medwell (University of Nottingham) and Fan Yang (Shanghai Normal University) - What Doing Research Means for Teachers: Comparison between England and Shanghai Patience Mukwambo (University of the Free State) - Quality as praxis: A case of teaching and learning in Zimbabwean higher education

Education policy responses to the Syrian refugee crisis

Sonia Khoury (Lebanese Ministry of Education) - Quality Education in Times of Crisis: Lebanon Case Study

Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies) - An Education For Future: The Schooling Experience Of Syrian Refugee Children In Lebanon And Germany

Roda Madziva (University of Nottingham) - The new celebrities? Provision of quality education in the context of the Syrian young refugees in the UK

Ecem Karlıdağ (University of Nottingham)

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Quality teaching and professional development

Stuart Cameron & Adrian Beavis (Oxford Policy Management) - Understanding and measuring teacher motivation in northern Nigeria

Qing Gu (University of Nottingham)

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Sajid Ali (Aga Khan University) - Supply and demand of qualified teachers in Pakistan – post 2015 challenges in supplying quality teachers

F Wolfenden, A Buckler, J Cullen, (The Open University, UK) & P Auckloo (Mauritius Institute of Education) - Shaping understandings of quality? An interrogation of teacher educators’ participation in open educational practices (OEP) in Tanzania, Uganda and Mauritius

Symposium 1:

Using Digital Education Technology to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Primary School Children in Developing Countries: Lessons from Malawi and the UK

Antoine Chigeda (Lamar University)- Evidence of Edtech use in the Developing World: Recommendations for Administrators and Policy Makers

Foster Gwonde (University of Malawi) - Mobile Learning in Malawi Primary Schools: Challenges and Opportunities

Paula J. Hubber (University of Nottingham) - Literacy and Numeracy Levels in Malawi: Does Digital Education Technology have the Potential to raise Attainment?

Convener: Nicola Pitchford (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham)

Discussant: Simon McGrath, (School of Education,

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Laura A. Outhwaite (University of Nottingham)- Unlocking Talent: Lessons learnt from Malawi and the UK

Antonie Chigeda (University of Malawi) - Unlocking Talent through Technology: Improving Learning Outcomes of Primary School Children in Malawi

University of Nottingham)

COFFEE & TEA BREAK (15:15 – 15:30) Foyer, Clive Grainger Building

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C

15:30 – 17:00

Pedagogy, assessment and early-grade learning outcomes

Barbara E Graham (SIL) - “The children loved the books and the posters but they didn’t learn to read!” - An exploration of assumptions underlying assessments of reading development in the early stages of reading

Nozomi Sakata (UCL IOE) - Does Learner-Centred Pedagogy Contribute to Learning Outcomes? Evidence from A Case Study in Tanzania

Richa Goswami (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)

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Popular Education: methods for peace-building and social justice

Cristina Perales Franco (UCL IOE) - School-community relationships and their implications for school convivencia

Marika Tsolakis (UCL IOE) - Problematising ‘Quality’ within Non-Formal Adult Dialogue Spaces in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire: A Freirean and Buberian Perspective

Marta Paluch (University of Sussex) - Systematization of Experiences in an Adult Literacy Pilot Programme in the Guatemalan Highlands

Roda Madziva (University of Nottingham)

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A critical look at education ‘quality’ and ‘relevance’ in three settings

Anamika Srivastava (Jawaharlal Nehru University) - ‘Quality’ in Higher Education in Indian Policy Documents: Half Baked Technocracy?

Anneke Newman (University of Sussex) - Faith, schooling and power in the postcolony: How does preference for Qur’anic schools in Senegal challenge secular bias in dominant definitions of quality education?

Caroline Dyer (University of Leeds) - Tackling marginalisation through education: what might a ‘relevant’ education mean for pastoralists in Ethiopia?

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Symposium 2:

‘Minding the gap’ between access and outcomes: investigating student experiences within higher education

Rebecca Schendel (UCL IOE) Positioning student experiences along the pathway to the public good: Reflections on theory and method in the South African context

Tristan McCowan (UCL IOE) Student voice, empowerment and complicity in African higher education

Convener: Rebecca Schendel (UCL IOE)

Discussant: TBD

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Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow) Chinese and Filipino graduates’ reflections on experiences of higher education and their long-term impact

EXTERNAL MEETINGS

External Meetings

17:00 – 18:00

COMPARE board meeting

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UKFIET Trustee Meeting

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DINNER AT CAVENDISH HALL 18:30 – 20:00

TUESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2016

Session Time Presentation Title Presenter(s) Session Chair Venue

PLENARY 9:00 – 11:00

Quality learning for all and sustainable development: A transformative agenda

Leon Tikly (University of Bristol)

Caroline Dyer (University of Leeds);

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Issues related to understanding, achieving and

assessing quality in learning in

Commonwealth Caribbean schools

Zellynne Jennings ( The University of the West Indies)

COFFEE & TEA BREAK (11:00 – 11:30)

D

11:30 – 13:00

Quality education for inclusion and social equity

Anne Emerson (University of Nottingham) - Towards inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities: Lessons learned from six Asian countries

Jackie Dearden and Li (Lily) Cai (University of Nottingham) - Pedagogy, curriculum and special education: a case study

Tony Bush, Lucy Bailey et al (University of Nottingham) - The educational inclusion of marginalised groups: Evidence from six Asian countries

Hayley Norris (University of Nottingham)

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Out-of-school children: understanding the links between attendance and socioeconomic indicators

Christine Kelly (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) - The competing demands of work and school attendance: evidence from primary school pupils in rural Malawi

Sehar Saeed (ASER Pakistan) - Whose Learning Should be prioritized? Evidence from Citizen Led Assessment

Qing Gu (University of Nottingham)

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The role of parents in quality learning: transnational and post-colonial perspectives

Marcela Ramos (University of Bristol) - Parental involvement in disadvantaged districts of Santiago: Intergenerational consequences for equity of an education system organized as a market

Jane Medwell (University of Nottingham)

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Yetunde Oluwatosin (British Council Nigeria) – Attitudes towards English medium instruction among parents, teachers and pupils in primary schools in Kano State, Nigeria

Arathi Sriprakash (University of Cambridge) - The positioning of parents in education reform in India: expertise, authority and control

Understating ‘quality’ learning in the context of vocational education and training

Kenneth King, (Edinburgh University) & Robert Palmer (NORRAG) - Quality Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Case of Skills Development and Higher Education

Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham) - Rethinking Quality in Vocational Education and Training

Michele Schweisfurth

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LUNCH (13:00 – 14:00)

Session Time Presentation Title Presenter(s) Session Chair Venue

E 14:00 – 15:30

Adult and Higher Education for social justice and sustainable development: views from three professions

Elizabeth Ongera (University of the Free State) - Towards a more gender just and equitable higher education: A capabilities approach perspective

Mikateko Höppener (University of the Free State) - Engineering Education for Sustainable Human Development: Perspectives from Germany and South Africa

Priti Chopra (University of Greenwich) - Conference paper title: Empowering community midwives through adult education programmes

Juliet Thondhlana (University of Nottingham)

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Education and imagined communities Elvira Sanatullova-Allison (Oklahoma State University) - Exploring Quebec’s Ethics and Religious Culture Program

Mario Novelli (University of Sussex) - Education & Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): Western Logics from South to North

Rui da Silva (University of Minho & University of Porto) - Quality of learning in challenging situations: reflections from a Portuguese aid education program in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2012.

Bronwen Magrath (University of Nottingham)

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Critical perspectives on learning assessments

Kashmali Khan & Izza Farrakh (Adam Smith International) - Data collection to support quality learning interventions in Pakistan

Peter Kelly (Plymouth University) & Imke von Bargen (Paderborn University) -

Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies)

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Comparing the standardised testing of 11 year olds in two contrasting education reform contexts: England and Nordrhein Westphalen, Germany

Tom Eats - Breadth of Learning Opportunities: An investigation into metrics and quality in education

F 15:45 – 17:15

Education and migration: perspectives from East Asian communities

Jingyi Li (University of Edinburgh) - Parental involvement of ethnic minority families in Scotland: A Chinese Perspective

Zheng Xinrong, Du Yuan and Pei Miao, (Beijing Normal University) and Margo O’Sullivan (UNICEF China) - Achieving Equity and quality in learning for ethnic minority children in China

Anne Emerson (University of Nottingham)

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Sayaka Hashimoto (UCL IOE) - Local government involvement in migrant education in contemporary Japan

Navigating the global and the local in education policy and practice

Michael Crossley (University of Bristol), Rosiana Lagi (University of the South Pacific), Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham) & Ledua Waqailiti (University of the South Pacific) - Quality education and the role of teachers in Fiji: mobilising global and local values

Jane Courtney (London South Bank University) - An exploration of the interaction between global education policy orthodoxies and teacher educators’ agentive capacities in Cambodia.

Laela Adamson (UCL IOE) - Language, Literacy and Learning: an ethnographic perspective on

Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham)

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the student experience in two Tanzanian secondary schools

International higher education: student perspectives

Aisi Li (Nazarbayev University) - Opportunities on the Other Side of the Mountains: A Case Study of Student Mobility between China and Kazakhstan

Dorothy Ferary - Factors that Determine UK Higher Education Institutions’ Service Quality: International Postgraduate Students’ Perspective

Juliet Thondhlana (University of Nottingham)

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Quality teaching and learning in private schools

I-Hsuan Cheng & Chieh-Yu Tsai (National Chi Nan University

Taiwan) - From social entrepreneurs to ‘teacherpreneurs’: leverages for quality learning at urban private schools in Ahmedabad, India

Laura Day Ashley (University of

Birmingham) - Do private schools

Jane Medwell (University of Nottingham)

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provide quality learning and

teaching?

Keith Lewin (University of

Sussex) - Seeking Secondary Schooling in India - Equity and Quality in Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan

EXTERNAL MEETINGS

BAICE AGM

17:15 – 18:30

BAICE Annual General Meeting – All Welcome

Refreshments served

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DINNER at TRENT BRIDGE – 19:30 - MIDNIGHT

Transport to Trent Bridge

19:00

Coach transport to Trent Bridge for dinner.

Return transport will be provided at the end of the evening

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016

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Session Time Presentation Title Presenter(s) Session Chair

Venue

‘QUESTION TIME’ PANEL SESSION

9:30 – 11:30

Achieving equity and quality in learning: current issues and debate

Please submit questions in the drop-off box in the foyer of the conference venue or via twitter by the end of the day on Tuesday 13 September

Rosemary Preston (University of Warwick); Michael Crossley (University of Bristol); Caroline Dyer (University of Leeds); Angeline Barrett (University of Bristol)

Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh)

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External meetings

External meetings

11:30 – 13:00

COMPARE Editors’ meeting (Refreshments served) A44

UKFIET AGM (Refreshments served) A45

End of Conference