2017 Programme

Tuesday 4 July 2017
11:00 am – 11:30 am Upper Hall	Symposium registration, morning refreshments and welcome
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Upper Hall	Knowledge, society and identity – Elizabeth Rata (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Knowledge and democratic politics – Stephanie Allais and Yael Shalem (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Education and society: What can and what can’t education do to build a just society? A perspective on current debates in South Africa – Jean-Manuel de Quieroz (Université de Rennes, France), Knowledge, education and identity – Ursula Hoadley, Chair
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Prioress’s Room	Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Upper Hall	Universities and the transformation of knowledge – Gavin Moodie (University of Toronto, Canada), Neither a technology determinist nor a disrupter be: Understanding substantive change in universities since the early modern period – Ruta Petkute (Tallinn University, Estonia), The European restructuring of the university curriculum: The empirical exploration of  the competence-discipline tension – Victoria Millar (University of Melbourne, Australia), Shifting knowledge forms and practices in university physics – Johan Muller, Chair
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Upper Hall	Afternoon refreshments
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Upper Hall	Knowledge, skills and vocations – Leesa Wheelahan (University of Toronto, Canada), Extending (and linking) the principles of insularity and hybridity from an analysis of knowledge to an analysis of institutions: The case of vocational education – Chris Corbel (University of Melbourne, Australia), Knowledge and the language device – Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK), Universities and the construction of a new generation gap – Michael Young, Chair

 

 

Wednesday 5 July 2017
9:30 am – 11:00 am Upper Hall	New considerations of knowledge, power and powerful knowledge – Johan Muller (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Michael Young (University College London, Institute of Education, UK), A little learning? Knowledge, power and powerful knowledge re-visited – Mandy Carver (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Knowledge transfer: Recontextualising indigenous music in the South African music curriculum – Adriana Bauer (Carlos Chagas Foundation and University of São Paulo, Brazil), Large-scale testing and powerful knowledge: Is there any relation possible? – John Beck, Chair
11:00 am – 11:30 am Upper Hall	Morning refreshments
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Upper Hall	School structure, curriculum structure, knowledge structure – Terrenda White (University of Colorado Boulder, USA), Race, culture, and Basil Bernstein: Bridging theories of power and control to examine structures of knowledge and pedagogy in NYC’s charter school market – Graham McPhail (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Curriculum integration at a new secondary school: Some observations – Richard Pountney (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Theorising teacher-led, student-led learning in a problem based curriculum – Leesa Wheelahan, Chair
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Prioress’s Room	Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Upper Hall	Knowledge and pedagogy – Ursula Hoadley (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Learning to fly: Pedagogy in the Foundation Phase in the context of the CAPS reform – Brian Barrett (State University of New York College at Cortland, USA), Elizabeth Rata and Graham McPhail (University of Auckland, New Zealand), An engaging pedagogy for an academic curriculum – Alexis Siteine (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Pedagogic identities in the primary school classroom – Chris Corbel, Chair
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Upper Hall	Afternoon refreshments
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Upper Hall	Knowledge and the school subject – Alka Sehgal Cuthbert (University of Cambridge, UK), The loss of literature in the English Literature syllabus – Shirley Lawes and Tomas White (University College London, Institute of Education, UK), Knowledge and the secondary school curriculum:   The discipline of modern foreign languages – Alex Standish (University College London, Institute of Education, UK), Re-contextualising knowledge from disciplines to subjects: The case of geography – Elizabeth Rata, Chair
7:00 pm TBD	Symposium dinner (Advance registration required)

 

 

Thursday 6 July 2017
9:30 am – 11:00 am Upper Hall	‘Disciplining’ knowledge – Jim Hordern (Bath Spa University, UK), Educational knowledge and teacher education – Joanna Williams (University of Kent, UK) and Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), Selling sociology – Lerato Posholi (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Does the realist notion of the revisability of knowledge enable us to engage productively with the call for decolonisation of the curriculum in South Africa? – Graham McPhail, Chair
11:00 am – 11:30 am Upper Hall	Morning refreshments
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Upper Hall	Perspectives on the past, present and future of knowledge in education – Zongyi Deng (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Bringing knowledge back in: Perspectives from liberal education – David Lambert and Nicky Platt (University College London, Institute of Education, UK), Curriculum leadership, pedagogy and subject specialist teachers – John Morgan (University of Auckland, New Zealand), The life and times of social realism
	– Brian Barrett, Chair
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Prioress’s Room	Lunch and symposium closing
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Upper Hall	Open planning session for Fifth Cambridge Symposium on Knowledge in Education and edited collection