Public lectures and conferences
The future of educational research
Lecture series education and learning in multilingual and multicultural contexts
Education and schooling are social practices that have attracted manifold and at times exorbitant expectations. Measured by these expectations the real achievements in education and schooling have often been looked upon as insufficient. As a rule, educational research has dedicated itself to helping practitioners to fulfil their tasks rather than to reflect upon the nature of the imbalance between claims and feasibility. The result is that as an academic discipline education has been called an “elusive science”, in which the mutual adjustment between expectations, promises and prospects is still out of reach.
In its lecture series “The Future of Educational Research”, the University of Luxembourg addresses this key issue of how to adjust fundamental research questions, research methods, and social practices. By inviting leading scholars from all over the world it aims at contributing to the general development of an academic discipline that is capable of both analyzing problems generated by inappropriate expectations and helping to solve real problems of education and schooling on the basis of sound research methods. Moreover, all of the invited speakers will work with the doctoral students of the University.
The series of lectures is organized around five major themes:
- Educational Systems: Historical, Cultural and Sociological Research Perspectives (2010/2011)
- Multimodality and Multilingualism: Current Challenges for Educational Studies (2011/2012)
- Professional Competencies of Teachers (2012)
- How to Analyze Educational Processes in the 21st Century (2013/2014)
- Education and learning in non-formal contexts (2014)
Professional Competencies of Teachers (2012)
All the lectures will take place at the Campus Walferdange on Wednesdays at 5 pm, building 3, room: Piaget.
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert (Max-Planck-Institut Berlin, Germany) Cumulative advantage: Is there a Matthew effect in reading and mathematics in elementary school?, 22 February 2012
- Prof. Brian Butterworth (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, London) Dyscalculia: From brain to education, 29 February 2012
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Bromme (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) Whom to ask, whom to believe? Studies on laypersons’ deference to expert knowledge in a digital world, 7 March 2012
- Prof. Dr. Jan Vermunt (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Teacher learning and professional development, 21 March 2012
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Nürk (University Hospital Aachen, Germany) Whorf reloaded: On the influences of language on basic mathematical processing and development, 28 March 2012
- Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany) Assessment of competencies of teachers, 11 April 2012
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmitz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Training of diagnostic and counseling competence, 25 April 2012
- Ass. Prof. Dr. Liane Kaufmann (Health and Life Sciences University Hall, Austria) Crucial differences between adult and developmental calculation models and their implications for math education, 2 May 2012
- Ass. Prof. Dr. Christine Schiltz (University of Luxembourg) Number and space interact. But how are they influenced by cognitive development and math education? 23 May 2012
- Prof. Dr. Bert De Smedt (Department of Educational Sciences, KUL, Belgium) Connecting cognitive neuroscience and education: a transdisciplinary approach to understand individual differences in mathematics achievement, 6 June 2012
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt (University of Luxembourg) Teachers' assessment competencies and influence of teachers' assessments on student performance, 20 June 2012
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