5th Global Conference (2008)

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.4)

Thursday 8th May 2008
from 09.30
Registration

10:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Tom Claes and David Preston

10.30
Lead Paper
Chair: David Preston

The Cultural Politics of Educational Inequality: Discarding the Prevailing Eurocentric Formulations of Academic Failure
Seth Agbo

11.30
Coffee

12.00
Session 1: Education and Ignorance
Chair: Tom Claes

Iva Apostolova
Why Should We Go to School?

Gary Peters
Ignorant Artists/Ignorant Teachers

13.00
Lunch

14.30
Session 2: Students in Higher Education
Chair: Philippa Hall

Lucie Shuker
‘It’ll look good on your personal statement’: Self-marketing amongst University Applicants in the UK

Sonja Engelage & Andreas Hadjar
PhD and Career – Is a Doctoral Degree Worth it?

Frank Schubert & Michael Beck
Choice of Field of Study in Switzerland

16.00
Coffee

16.30
Session 3: Change and Management in Higher Education
Chair: Sanja Petkovska

Frank McMahon
Diversifying the Missions of Universities: The Conflict of Government Policies with Institutional and Personal Value Systems of Academics

Vijaya Deshmukh
Complexities of Rising Consumerism & Marketing in Higher Education

Dale Kirby
Higher Education in Canada: New Millennium, New Students, New Directions

18.00
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception (with delegates from the Intellectuals project).

Friday 9th May 2008
09.00
Session 4: Democracy, Citizenship and Higher Education
Chair: Frank McMahon

Sarwet Rasul
Developing Active Citizenship: Universities as Agents of Social Change

Daniele Cantini
Questions of Democracy: Higher Education in Contemporary Jordan

Zhanna Sagyndykova
Role of Higher Education in Development of a Country (Kazakhstan, post Soviet Republic)

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 5: Democracy, Citizenship and Higher Education—cont.
Chair: Mark Dobbins

Philippa Hall
Globalisation and the transformation of higher education in Nigeria since 1986: An analysis of global inequalities.

Theodore Papaelias
The Great Transformation: From Higher Education to Special Training

Serpil Kocdar & Nilgün Özdamar
The Nature of Learning Theories and Their Effects on Distance Education Practices in Turkey

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 6: Intellectuals in Cultural Life Panel

Rachael Evans
Julia Moszkowicz
Angela Partington
Gary Peters
Sue Tate

(Joint Panel with Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power & Ideas)

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 7: Questioning the University
Chair: Seth Agbo

Karen Gomoluch & Gill Whittaker
Developing a New Curriculum: ‘Chartered Street’ or ‘Valley Wild’?

Tom Claes
From Endless Frontier to Endless Transition: Changing Roles of the University

Sanja Petkovska
Questioning the Idea of The University

17.30
Sessions End

Saturday 10th May 2008
09.00
Session 8: Changing Teaching and Evaluation
Chair: Bill Tait

Mark Dobbins
Separating Learning and Evaluation

Norhasni Zainal Abiddin
Postgraduate Students’ Needs on Supervision: A Case Study

Maria Leonor Borges
Teachers’ Knowledge, Professionalism and Teacher Education: Some Reflections

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 9: Virtual Educations
Chair: Karen Gomoluch

Maria Isabel Orega
Using a Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext to Develop Reading Comprehension. A Case Study with Students of a Media Studies Degree

Bill Tait
Online Teaching with Learning Objects

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 10: Education’s Toolbox
Chair: Dale Kirby

David Seth Preston
Innovation and its Role in University Education

Chrisina Draganova & Johannes Arreymbi
User Requirements Analysis for use of Mobile Phones in Learning and Teaching

Rita Fornari
The Indicators and the Mission of Higher Education: What is the Gap?

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close