Public Lecture: Multimodality in the enactment of learning environments and in their representation
Date:
17/10/2012
Organised by:
Institute of Education
Presenter:
Professor Frederick Erickson
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Anna Waring: a.waring@ioe.ac.uk / 020 7763 2199
Description:
Building a website to portray the teaching of physics with young children
The MODE team are delighted to announce that their upcoming lecture is to be given by the renowned Frederick Erickson. The lecture will consider issues in the representation of complex teaching and learning practice practice in early grades classrooms. A website constructed in collaboration between classroom teachers and university based researchers at the University Laboratory School of UCLA will be shown and discussed. It illustrates the teaching and learning of the physics of matter, energy, and motion with five and six year old children
Frederick Erickson is George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where from 2000-2006 he was director of research at the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, UCLA's laboratory school. From 1998-99 and again in 2006-07 he was a residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA., and in 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Education., In 2009 Professor Erickson was elected a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and his book “Talk and Social Theory” received the AERA Outstanding Book Award in 2005.
Further information about Professor Erickson and the lecture can be found at the MODE website
17:30-18:30, 17th October 2012
Clarke Hall, Institute of Education
Cost:
Free
Website and registration:
http://store.ioe.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=134&deptid=161&catid=35
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Data Collection, Visual Methods, Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Visual Data Analysis, Social Network Analysis, multimodality , science , learning , teaching
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