What's on @ the WSoE
Please send all information for School of Education notices to dasandham@gmail.com .All events, special lectures, seminars and student and staff notices, involving School of Education staff and students and of relevance to the School of Education only, are welcome for submission. Please send text only in Word format or in the body of an email, no formatting or attachments, maximum one paragraph, including date, time, venue and a contact person for RSVP/more info. Deadline strictly each Monday at 14:00. SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
PHD SEMINAR 4
Topic: Aligning epistemology, methodology and data analysis/interpretation
Novice researchers and PhD students usually have some knowledge and skills relating to substantive theory and research methods. At the latest during the writing of a research proposal, however, most find that it is rather difficult to bring substantive theory and research methods together such that they form a coherent research proposal and design. The first part of the session will focus on the practical elements of ontology and epistemology, as well as how these play a role in the design of a research proposal and research design. The second part of the session is dedicated to various issues relating to research design. In the final part of the session, we will cover the 30 most frequent problems and errors of novice researchers and PhD students of the social and related sciences. All welcome.
Presenter: Prof Max Bergman; Discussant: Prof Kai Horsthemke.
Date: 27th July 2011
Time: 13:00 (sandwiches from 12.30)
Venue: B203 – Bohlaleng block
BILDUNG AND RECOGNITION
Currently Bildung is becoming a key concept of philosophical reflections on human development. In my lecture I attempt to sketch out a re-articulation of this concept in social pragmatist terms. My assumption is that this re-articulation would make it possible to conceptualize central social conditions and prerequisites of human development as well as to define norms of pedagogies that can support that development.
In order to develop a social pragmatist account of Bildung, I first describe briefly the semantic content of the "classic" concept of Bildung. In a second step I try to show how that concept can be linked to the realm of intersubjective social relations. My thesis is that that can be done by applying to that concept Axel Honneth's recognition approach, which nowadays plays a very significant role in the field of Social Philosophy. Finally, I shall point at some pedagogical implications of the proposed recognitial re-articulation of Bildung.
Presenter: Krassimir Stojanov
Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Staff Lounge. Wits School of Education
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
'How to encourage and nurture partnerships with communities'. This is the third of six seminars in the Teachers Upfront: Education conversation series on the centrality of teachers within the South African education system, a joint University of Johannesburg, Bridge, Mail & Guardian, and Wits School of Education partnership.
Speakers: Mr. Misheck Ndebele (WSoE), Dr. Al Whitten (NMMU - Centre for the Community School), and Ms. Theresa Moila (Parent and Activist)
Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Time: 16:30-19:00
Venue: Staff Lounge, Bohlaleng Block
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UPDATE OF WORK IN PROGRESS ON WEC
1. Campus Centre Extension: Interim entrance door – the concrete floor has been cast this week and is almost ready for use. What remains is the sealing between the new concrete and the brickwork and filling the rainwater channel with cobbles. It should be complete by Wednesday this week. Some landscaping might be considered by PIMD in the garden area. Construction of the new building: The demolitions went very well and the contractor bettered their programme but the time gained was lost again due to the metal worker's strike that delayed the reinforcing steel for the piling. Setting out of the building is in progress and piling will commence on Monday and continue for about two weeks. This will be followed by foundation excavations, installing reinforcing steel and concreting of the pile caps and footings.
2. Lesideng Lecture Theatre and Bohlaleng Classroom extension: Geotechnical investigation – This will take place during the next two weeks on the site for the new auditorium. Some inspection pits will be hand dug to locate underground services and a section of this grassed area will not be available for parking during that time. This work will be followed by bulk excavation in September, piling and then construction later this year.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Mark Sandham on the publication of Bethulie and Chubut: Domestic Memoirs of the Boer War and Argentina. Mark translated and edited the memoirs of Petronella Niemann whose fascinating life story includes her family's incarceration in the Bethulie concentration camp during the second Anglo-Boer war and their economic recovery after the war and subsequent emigration to Chubut, Patagonia. The text is illustrated with maps and photographs and corroborated by more than 100 footnotes - evidence of Mark's scholarship.
Congratulations to Karen Walstra, a WSoE M Ed student. At the fifth annual African Education Week conference and exhibition held in Johannesburg in early July she presented a paper entitled 'The modern classroom - using technology to enhance teaching'.
Well done and thank you to Elspeth and Hamsa for a successful AMESA conference on our campus!
Congratulations to Honorary Professor in WSoE Kgethi Setati. She has been appointed as Vice Principal: Research and Innovation at UNISA. From all in the WSoE all the very best in your new role!
Congratulations to Karin Murris on the publication of her recent book – we look forward to hearing more about it in the next issue of WSoE IN ACTION
WELCOME
Welcome to Alison Kearney who has returned from parental leave. You were missed!
Welcome to Ms Roberts as Visiting Lecturer to the WSoE. We look forward to your contribution to the intellectual life of the school.
Welcome to all staff back from sabbatical
Welcome to Professor Leketi Makalela who has joined the School on 1 July. Professor Makalela joins the LLL Division
I HATE MATHS
A joint initiative of the Wits Maths Connect – Primary project and the Wits B Ed Concepts and Literacies in Maths (CLM) course
The 'I Hate Maths' initiative is aimed at stimulating interest and enthusiasm in 'talking mathematics'. The title acknowledges the negative attitudes that so many adults have following their experiences of mathematics at school, but aims also, to provide problems focused on primary school mathematics, that can encourage thinking and conversation. The problems are there to be thought about! We are not in school, and we are not testing anyone – you are encouraged to 'cheat' by talking to colleagues and sharing your thinking/ using the Web!
Each month, beginning in mid-July 2011, a mathematics problem will be emailed to all WSOE staff and put up on notice boards around the School for all students. We are interested in your thinking and your explanations, not just your answers. You can submit answers explaining your thinking to an email address (details to come) or drop your answer (max 1 page A4) into the 'I Hate Maths' box in Minkie Nkwanyana's office (M22). Submissions need to come in by the last day of each month. Joint submissions are welcome.
We will look through all submissions and decide on the 'best answer' in terms of the explanation of the solution and underlying ideas. Professor Mike Askew from Monash University, who will be conducting a public 'I Hate Maths' seminar in WSOE in November 2011, will present prizes for the previous months at this event.
Enjoy your week
Ruksana
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