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Seminars and Events
The Bureau frequently video tapes seminars and events held within Room 242, Education Building. If you are interested in viewing an earlier seminar and event, please contact our office.
2007-2008 Bureau Seminar Series
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 12:00 - 1:00p, Room 242 Education
Investigating the Long-Term Impact of Music Education
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie E. Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Sheffield, UK _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
The Politics of Research on Choice & Competition in American Education: Toward a New Political Economy of Research Production?
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Lubienski, Assistant Professor and 2007-2008 College Distinguished Scholar, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12-1:30p, Room 242 Education
Indian Higher Education: Negotiating the Challenges of Globalization and the Knowledge Economy
Speaker: Dr. Fazal Rizvi, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow and College Distinguished Senior Scholar, Professor Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
Social Class Influences on Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Examination
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lubienski, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
Science and Metropolitan America: Research and Civic Responsibility
Speaker: Dr. William F. Tate IV, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences Washington University in St. Louis; 2007-2008 President, American Educational Research Association _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12-1:30pm, Room 242 Education
Designing More Effective Instruction in Reading Comprehension for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
Speaker: Dr. Stuart McNaughton, Director, Woolf Fisher Research Centre, The University of Auckland ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 12-1pm, Room 242 Education
Profiles of the Professoriate: Characteristics, Values, and Beliefs of Faculty Members in Educational Leadership Programs
Speaker: Dr. Donald Hackmann, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor and Interim Head, Department of Educational Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 3-4:30pm, Room 242 Education
Can you see what I am saying? Identity, Empowerment & Transformative Online Learning Environments
Speaker: Dr. Denice Ward Hood, Associate Professor, College of Education Northern Arizona University __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:30-12:00pm, Room 242 Education
Attending and Responding to Student Epistemologies in Physics Instruction
Speaker: Dr. David Hammer, Professor of Physics and Curriculum & Instruction, University of Maryland College Park __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12 - 1pm, Room 242 Education
Modeling Teacher Change
Speaker: Dr. Ian Beatty, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute & Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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