Posts by Derek Robertson

Anti-racist education: Possibilities and Challenges – SERA Inclusive Education Network Seminar

Colleagues from our Inclusive Education Network are hosting the above seminar next month. Full details are below: Date: Thursday 7th November, 2024 Venue: Online, MS Teams (see this attachment for full details on how to join) This webinar is for practitioners, students, researchers, and other stakeholders in education. There are two sessions in this webinar.

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Pupil Voice in Health and Wellbeing – panel discussion

Our Health and Wellbeing in Education Network is to host an online discussion this month. Full details of the event are below. Title: Pupil Voice in Health and Wellbeing Panel Discussion Download the flyer for the event Date: Thursday 9th May 2024 Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm Location: Online Organisers: Health Research in Education Network Speakers:

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English as an Additional Language (EAL) in the north: stories about supporting EAL pupils in the North East of Scotland.

Our Inclusive Education Network held a seminar back in April this year. Here are the details and the recording of the event. Date: Wednesday 17 April 2024, 4:00-5:30pm. Location: MS Teams Organisers: SERA Inclusive Education Network Speakers: Thomas Richardson, Silvia Fiddes Ortiz Perea, Sarah-Jane Bennison This webinar is for: practitioners, students, researchers, and other stakeholders

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SERA Digital Education Network workshop: Call for papers

Workshop for Early Career Researchers The SERA Digital Education Network is committed to support research in digital education in a variety of learning contexts, to promote developments in the teaching and learning with new digital technologies, and to disseminate research results and share good practices for technology integration. To facilitate knowledge exchange the SERA Digital

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SERA Digital Education Network: What is deepfake learning?

Online invited lecture Title: “What is deepfake learning?” Speaker: Prof. Charles B. Hodges, Professor of Instructional Technology, Georgia Southern University, GA, USA Abstract: Traditional assessments struggle to distinguish between a learner’s use of GenAI and genuine learning.  What does this mean for teaching and learning? In this talk, the impact of GenAI on some well-established learning

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Welcome to the ECR Network: Podcast March 2024

The three co-conveners of our Early Career Researchers (ECR) Network recently had a discussion about what the ECR group means for them and the exciting plans they have for the group this year. If you wish to become part of this network then details can be found from this page on our website.

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‘Toys That Teach’ -Inclusive Education Network event

The SERA Inclusive Education Network will be hosting an online event in March. Full details below: Title: “Toys That Teach: Fostering Disability Representation and Inclusivity through Toybox Tales Chatty Pack” Date: Wednesday 6th March 2024, 4:00-5:30pm. Location: MS Teams Organisers: SERA Inclusive Education Network Speakers: Drs. Clare Uytman and Sian Jones are chartered psychologists, working

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Dr Marion Allison – Keynote Speaker #seraconf23

About Dr Marion Allison   Dr Marion Allison has over 30 years’ experience of working within Community Learning and Development and Education. She currently leads the CLD Standards Council, the professional association for adult learner, community development and youth workers in Scotland.  With a membership of approximately 3,000 people form a Marion leads the organisation

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Dr Khadija Mohammed – Keynote Speaker #seraconf23

  About Dr Khadija Mohammed Dr Khadija Mohammed is Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of the West of Scotland. She is a multi-award winning sector leader on racial equity and anti-racism education. Her research centres on the lived experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Teachers in Scotland with a focus

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Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students – hearing from the TEAMS project

In this presentation Dr Tom Richardson & Dr Natasa Pantic provide an overview of the ‘TEAMS’ project (Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students). In this 2020-2023 project, researchers gathered data from 7 schools in 3 countries (Scotland, Sweden and Finland) to map teachers’ and other school staff collaborative networks around supporting migrant students, both socially

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