Past Seminars
The following seminars have been run by CCHRE since October 2005.
Thursday 19 June 2008
British Institute for Human Rights (BIHR), Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education (CCHRE)
Teaching Citizenship through Human Rights, Teachers’ Conference - Registration deadline: 23 May 2008
Room: Clothworkers’ Centenary Hall
Time: 9.00 a.m - 4.30 p.m.The Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education is proud to be hosting this special teachers' day conference. It will form part of CCHRE's celebration activities to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
Prof. Katherine Cowell, Executive Director: Children's Rights Centre, Cape Breton University, Sydney & Prof. Brian Howe, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne
Children's rights in schools
Room: ECS 7.83
Time: 12.00 - 13.30
Wednesday 07 November 2007
Professor Clive Harber, University of Birmingham
Revolution, What Revolution? Contextual Issues in Citizenship Education in England
Room: HP G18
Time: 13.00-14.30'Revolution, What Revolution? Contextual Issues in Citizenship Education in England' examines some of the key issues and problems facing education for democratic citizenship as a curriculum innovation in England - teacher supply, the nature of teacher education, the national curriculum, teaching methods, where it fits in as a subject, school councils and racism. It concludes by asking whether it will be a durable or short-lived innovation.
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Tuesday 12 June 2007
Professor Orit Ichilov, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University
The Challenges of Citizenship Education in a World of Conflict and Change
Room: BT01.116
Time: 1.30-2.30Citizenship education must take into account the immense variety of socializing contexts and environments in which children grow up today. These various environments and contexts have a vital cumulative, shaping youngsters’ political world by creating a world of meanings, images, and social bonds. Globally, most youngsters live in non-western and non-democratic societies, and many grow up in conflict-infested societies. Within Western democracies the presence of children of ethnic minorities, immigrants, guest workers, and refugees is on the rise. My talk will focus on how three global processes namely, economic and cultural globalization, multiculturalism and postmodern ideologies change traditional perceptions of “citizenship” within Western societies, and discuss the consequences for citizenship education.
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Wednesday 09 May 2007
Christian Quvang. Associate Professor, University College CVU VEST, Denmark
The UNICEF Report: From UK to DK
Room: G22 Baines Wing
Time: 14.00-15.30The UNICEF report ‘Child poverty in Perspective’, published early February 2007, gives the opportunity to compare and hence learn from the different ways that educational and social matters are dealt in different countries of the industrialised world. The presentation is a critical view on how issues related to citizenship and human rights are addressed in different countries and how identity is threatened and learning processes is jeopardized, apparently with severe consequences for recognition and inclusion of citizens in our societies. It will also attempt to explore ways of coping with critical transitions for individuals and the importance of empowerment.
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Wednesday 25 April 2007
Christian Quvang. Associate Professor, University College CVU VEST, Denmark
Special education and life stories: learning, identity and empowerment.
Room: BT1.17
Time: 13.00-14.30
I am working on a project where my research question is focused on how experiences from special education in primary and lower secondary school are reflected in individuals’ narratives and what impact these narratives have on learning, identity and empowerment. With this focus my aim is to investigate the relation between the individual narrative or biography and the big educational narrative. The research is based on a body of data comprised of 230 pages of narratives told by 32 individuals between the age of 16 and 44, all with SEN experiences. The research will be concluded in June 2008.
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Wednesday 06 December 2006
Dr Obrad Savic. Visiting Professor at the Kosovo Institute for Journalism and Communication, Pristhina, Kosovo. Research fellow, School of Fine Art and Cultiral Studies, University of Leeds
Welcome to Stranger: Human Rights Without Alibi
Room: Baines Wing Room 3.06
Time: 13.00 pm - 15.00 pm
Wednesday 17 May 2006
Abraham Magendzo K , Director of UNESCO Chair on Human Rights Education at the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano , Santiago Chile
Human Rights and Citizenship Education in Latin America
Room: BT 1.16
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Latin America slowly returns to democracy after a period of dictatorship regimes, violence and institutionalised impunity. Human rights and citizenship education is an integral part of this long process of democratisation. The presentation will start with a very concise and brief reflection of what is the main significance of human rights and citizenship education in Latin America and particularly in Chile. It will focus specifically in its contribution on the fight for eradication of injustices and poverty, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination; delivering voice to the unvoiced people; perpetuate memory: empowering people to become citizens of rights, etc. The presentation will continue by pointing out the main achievements and difficulties of human rights and citizenship education in Latin America and in Chile. It will focus particularly in the tensions, conflicts and contradictions that human rights education needs to deal with, namely: its critical position; the instrumentalisation of education and the curriculum; the lack of structural and cultural conditions, the duplication of discourse; the problem of dissemination and the lack of appropriate methodologies to evaluate its effectiveness.
Wednesday 10 May 2006
Madeleine Arnot, Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University. Fellow of Jesus College and the Academy of Social Sciences
‘Freedom’s Children’: Individualising The Learner Citizen
Room: BT 1.17
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Drawing on Ulrich Beck's theory of 'freedom's children', this paper considers contemporary concerns about educating young people for citizenship and educating them about citizenship. The first theme Individualising the Learner Citizen highlights some of the gendered and class inequalities associated with the individualisation of learning. The second theme The Individualist Citizen draws on youth studies which suggest that young women are at the moment more likely to ‘fit’ the requirements of neo liberal models of citizenship. These two processes of individualisation have significantly reshaped contemporary gender relations and arguably reinforced social inequalities. These scenarios are troubling ones – they challenge us to consider the social and political consequences of individualisation for democratic citizenship.
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Thursday 16 March 2006
Tommaso Milani, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning Stockholms Universitet.
Language testing and citizenship: Poststructuralist perspectives on a language ideology in Sweden
Room: BT G.02
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Jointly organised by the CCHRE and the Centre for Language Education Research
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Wednesday 15 February 2006
Dr June Bam-Hutchinson
Creating New Paths: Nation-making versus Nationalism (The case of the South African History project).
Room: BT 1.17
Time: 1.15 pm - 2.30 pm
For bookings please contact Michalis Kakos: m.kakos@leeds.ac.uk
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Wednesday 08 February 2006
Professor Rose September, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Children's Perspectives on their Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship in South Africa
Room: ECS 7.73
Time: 1:00 - 2.30pm
OPEN SEMINAR (For bookings please contact Michalis Kakos: m.kakos@leeds.ac.uk)
Wednesday 01 February 2006
Prof. John Annette, University of London.
Deliberative Democracy and Education for Democratic Citizenship
Room: BT 1.16
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Part of the CCHRE 2005-6 seminar series
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Wednesday 02 November 2005
Dr Hugh Starkey, programme leader for MA Citizenship Education by distance learning, University of London Institute of Education
Assessment for Learning in Citizenship
Room: Blenheim G02
Time: 12.45 - 14.30 pm
Booking Required. Please contact Michalis Kakos
Wednesday 05 October 2005
Prof. Audrey Osler, CCHRE director
Learning for Cosmopolitan Citizenship
Room: BT G02
Time: 12:45-14:30