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Events
Presentations
Kay Sambell & Mel Gibson delivered a paper to Learning Development in HE Network (LDHEN) ‘Working for Students’ Success’, 2nd UK conference, hosted by Northumbria University. Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson ‘MEDAL : Making a difference: Educational Development to enhance Academic Literacy.- exploring inter-disciplinary approaches in Childhood Studies teaching across the sector. You can obtain slides from the presentation here.
MEDAL Consortium members collaborated with the English Subject Centre day, hosted by Pam Knights, Durham University on ‘Teaching Children’s Fiction’.
Kay Sambell presented the outcomes of its initial research into the student experience of studying childhood at the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference in Edinburgh. ‘Exciting, challenging, refreshing – but no easy ride!’ Student perspectives of interdisciplinary study: the MEDAL project. You can obtain slides from the presentation here.
Kay Sambell drew upon a MEDAL case study in a paper she was asked to present in a symposium, convened by Berry O'Donovan, on 'Involving Students in Assessment' at the 13th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Imperial College, London, UK, 5-7 September 2005: 'Improving Learning Through Assessment. Her paper was entitled 'Assessment for learning: developing autonomous learners in Childhood Studies'. You can obtain slides from the presentation here.
Open to View: Popular
Fiction and Visual Narrative
MEDAL organised a strand on Childhood as
part of the conference Open to View: Popular Fiction and Visual Narrative.
19th-20th November 2005. Association for Research in Popular Fictions
(ARPF). Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University. Mel Gibson
and Kay Sambell chaired and facilitated all of the panels. There was an
exciting series of interdisciplinary exchanges around Childhood and everyone
left the conference with an increased awareness of the wealth of approaches
and materials available in a number of fields. You
can see the full programme here
There were two MEDAL papers presented at the Childhood Cultures Research Group study day on Representations of Childhood, Newcastle University, 15th February 2006. Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson offered a presentation entitled ‘Representations of changing childhoods: blurring boundaries’. Mel Gibson also delivered a paper on ‘Girl peer groups in comics’.
Mel Gibson ran a session on the MEDAL project at the University of Northumbria on 13th February 2006 for a group of colleagues from the University of Utrecht who are on a study tour of Britain.
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson offered a presentation on the MEDAL project to Dr Lars Geschwind of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education at the University of Northumbria on 23rd February 2006.
MEDAL hosted a visit of twelve students and two lecturers from The Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin to the University of Northumbria on 24th February 2006. This whole day study visit involved a presentation of the MEDAL project, along with an informal lunchtime display and discussion of MEDAL student-created posters involving Year Three Jt Hons Childhood Studies students participating in a module on Perspectives on Children's Literature. In addition, there was a two-hour workshop session in which students from Year Two of the Jt Hons programme collaborated with Dublin students using MEDAL materials on visual literacy.
CSPN regional meeting hosted at Newcastle, 10th March 2006. Guest speaker Dr N Matthews, gave a presentation and led discussion on the ‘In the Picture’ project (SCOPE). Dr Matthews also led a workshop about the project for students from Year Two of the Jt Hons programme at the University of Northumbria in the afternoon.
John Issitt ran an event for 6th formers at York on theme of Childhood in March 2006.
In The Picture project : MEDAL regional study day
Dr Nicole Matthews
pictured during workshops with staff and students involved in the MEDAL
project. The workshops, hosted by Northumbria University, focused on In
The Picture, an innovative three year project which aims to promote the
inclusion of disabled children in early years' picture books.
The In The Picture website can be found at
http://www.childreninthepicture.org.uk/index.htm
MEDAL presentation as part of postgraduate conference, The Child and the Book, held at the University of Newcastle on April 7-9 2006. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/childandthebook/
Writing in the disciplines consortium,
Queen Mary University, London. May 3-5th 2006.
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson. Student Perspectives of interdisciplinary
thinking and writing.
Writing Development in Higher Education
Conference, Milton Keynes May 11th-12th 2006.
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson: “My essays have been more experimental”:
‘student perspectives of writing across and within the disciplines
in childhood studies courses’
HE Academy conference 3-5 July 2006
Nottingham.
Jon Robinson, Joanne Smailes, Kay Sambell, Mel Gibson, Linda Graham: At
CETL Student Network. Roger Penlington, Jon Robinson, Kay Sambell, Mel
Gibson and Liz McDowell: Poster and CETL presentation: ‘Putting
AFL into practice.’
Kay Sambell: ‘Putting the scholarship
of assessment into practice: student perspectives of an Assessment for
Learning (AFL) approach to interdisciplinary study.’
Linda Graham: Seminar to discuss the development of a CETL Student Network.
Northumbria EARLI SIG Assessment Conference:
30 Aug – 1 Sept 2006: Redworth Hall.
Mel Gibson and Kay Sambell: “We’ve become like a community.
It is quite unusual, really!” Student perspectives on assessment
for learning activities designed to develop community – based assessment
pedagogy in higher education.
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson: ‘Writing Matters: Students’ Views
of Writing on their Courses.’
EARLI SIG on Writing Conference, Antwerp
Sept 2006
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson: ‘Student perspectives of writing to
learn: developing learner autonomy in interdisciplinary courses.’
IS SOTL Washington, DC. November 2006.
Making a greater difference: connecting to transformational agendas.
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson: ‘Transformative new literacies: developing
student communities.’
Mel Gibson, Kay Sambell
and Linda Graham talked about the theme of ‘Accessing Expertise’
: ‘Horses for courses’: adapting innovative approaches to
childhood studies teaching for use in other pedagogic contexts, FDTL HEA
Annual Conference, Bristol, February, 2007. They also presented a poster.
31st January 2007. Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson ran a half-day workshop for the Early Childhood Studies Teaching team at Roehampton University on the topic Putting AfL into Practice in Childhood Studies and interdisciplinary areas’.
28th Feb 2007. Kay Sambell, Mel Gibson and Linda Graham offered a half-day invited workshop to staff at Leeds Metropolitan University using some MEDAL Case Book materials: ‘Student perspectives of feedback and assessment for learning.’
March 22nd, 2007. Kay Sambell, Mel Gibson and Linda Graham offered a workshop including MEDAL case materials at the University of Teeside. ‘Using Assessment for Learning Strategies to Develop Student Involvement.’
Kay Sambell and Mel Gibson offered a presentation and linked poster to the Higher Education Academy Annual conference, July 2007, whose theme was ‘Engaging Students.’ Their talk was called – ‘Playing with ideas: Student publications as literacy events which engage learners in academic communities of practice within the discipline,’ and focused on case studies in Childhood Studies.
On September 11th-12th. Kay and Mel offered a presentation to Northumbria Learning and Teaching conference . Gosforth Marriott, ‘Enhancing the student experience’. The presentation was entitled ‘Visions and voices: using assessment for learning approaches to involve students in sharing and publishing their ideas.’