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SEMINAR: Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series

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The Graduate School of Education invites you to participate in this inaugural Seminar Series.

With a focus on sharing personal insights into timely and relevant topics in education research, these seminars will engage participants in a lively discussion of some of the pressing issues affecting Australia’s academics, schools and society today.

Speakers and topics for 2012

15 August

Winthrop Professor Grady Venville

“Choosing science comes more from the heart than from the brain (or the pocket)”: A retrospective study of why scientists chose to study science.”

26 September

Winthrop Professor Stephen Houghton

“Are the seeds of antisociality and psychopathic traits sown early in life?”

10 October

Winthrop Professor and Chapple Chair David Andrich

“Sliding Doors in Academe: Idiosyncrasies of autobiography and controversy in psychometrics”

31 October

Winthrop Professor and Faculty Dean Helen Wildy

“NAPLAN Data: Improving student learning OR doing the work of the Devil?”

14 November

Winthrop Professor Thomas O’Donoghue

The primary school’s invasion of the privacy of the child: Unmasking the potential of some current practices

Venue Details

RSVP to Ms. Alyce Green, Administrative Assistant, GSE [email protected]

Abstracts and additional details will be distributed closer to the event date.
Speaker(s) Winthrop Professor Grady Venville, Winthrop Professor Stephen Houghton , Winthrop Professor and Chapple Chair David Andrich, Winthrop Professor and Faculty Dean Helen Wildy, and Winthrop Professor Thomas O�Donoghue
Location Faculty of Education Conference Room, 2nd Floor From 12-1pm
Contact Michelle Emmett <[email protected]> : 08 6488 2388
URL http://www.education.uwa.edu.au/research/seminar/
Start Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:00
End Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:00
RSVP RSVP is required.
Submitted by Michelle Emmett <[email protected]>
Last Updated Fri, 02 May 2014 13:40
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