2007-2008 Bureau Seminar Series

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Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 12:00 - 1:00p, Room 242 Education
Investigating the Long-Term Impact of Music Education

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie E. Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Sheffield, UK _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
The Politics of Research on Choice & Competition in American Education: Toward a New Political Economy of Research Production?

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Lubienski, Assistant Professor and 2007-2008 College Distinguished Scholar, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12-1:30p, Room 242 Education
Indian Higher Education: Negotiating the Challenges of Globalization and the Knowledge Economy

Speaker: Dr. Fazal Rizvi, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow and College Distinguished Senior Scholar, Professor Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
Social Class Influences on Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Examination

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lubienski, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 12-1:00p, Room 242 Education
Science and Metropolitan America: Research and Civic Responsibility

Speaker: Dr. William F. Tate IV, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences Washington University in St. Louis; 2007-2008 President, American Educational Research Association _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12-1:30pm, Room 242 Education
Designing More Effective Instruction in Reading Comprehension for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students

Speaker: Dr. Stuart McNaughton, Director, Woolf Fisher Research Centre, The University of Auckland ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, April 17, 2008, 12-1pm, Room 242 Education
Profiles of the Professoriate: Characteristics, Values, and Beliefs of Faculty Members in Educational Leadership Programs

Speaker: Dr. Donald Hackmann, 2007-2008 Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor and Interim Head, Department of Educational Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 3-4:30pm, Room 242 Education
Can you see what I am saying? Identity, Empowerment & Transformative Online Learning Environments

Speaker: Dr. Denice Ward Hood, Associate Professor, College of Education Northern Arizona University __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:30-12:00pm, Room 242 Education
Attending and Responding to Student Epistemologies in Physics Instruction

Speaker: Dr. David Hammer, Professor of Physics and Curriculum & Instruction, University of Maryland College Park __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12 - 1pm, Room 242 Education
Modeling Teacher Change

Speaker: Dr. Ian Beatty, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute & Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst