2010 Conference

The Student Voice: Teaching Politics and IR in the New Millennium

Conference organisers: Professor Alasdair Blair and Samantha McGinty, Department of Historical and Social Studies, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Tel: 0116 250 6125.

Day 1 - Tuesday 14 September 2010

Keynote

- Assessing assessment: Examining the assessment plans of 70 political science programmes in the United States (John Ishiyama, University of North Texas)

First panel session – Assessment (Chair: Steven Curtis)

- Survey of the curriculum and assessment in Political Science degrees in the UK (Jonathan Parker, Keele University)

- Innovative curriculum design (Penny Welch, University of Wolverhampton)

Second panel session – Curriculum (1) (Chair: Stephen Thornton)

- Re-shaping the student voice: Reframing the employ(dis)ability agenda in HE and why a crude skills acquisition model fails everyone (Bela Arora & Gary Pritchard, University of Wales, Newport)

- Creating spaces for often unheard voices in HE: Teaching Black perspectives and working with Black and ethnically minoritised people in HE (Carlton Howson, De Montfort University)

Third panel session – Curriculum (2) (Chair: Jonathan Parker)

- Reflections on method: Student centred, student led research (Emma Foster and Laura J. Shepherd, University of Birmingham)

- Research Methods Teaching: Effective Learning through a Discipline Embedded Approach (Cristina Leston-Bandeira, University of Hull)

Fourth panel session – Feedback and Assessment - (Chair: John Craig)

- Is audio feedback for diverse student learning sufficient? (Julie Lowe, De Montfort University)

- Strategies for students to get more out of tutor feedback (Deirdre Burke, Birmingham City University)

- Why dialogue matters in the student experience (Samantha McGinty & Alasdair Blair, De Montfort University)

Day 2 – Wednesday 15 September 2010

Fifth panel session – Curriculum (3) (Chair: Bela Arora)

- Teaching politics through inquiry: the international student voice (Richard Hayton, University of Huddersfield and Ian Bache, University of Sheffield)

- Is the library dead? Students’ information behaviours in the twenty-first century (Stephen Thornton, Cardiff University)

- What is the impact of in-class active learning techniques? A meta-analysis of the existing literature (John Ishiyama, University of North Texas)

Sixth panel session– Technology Enhanced Learning- (Chair: Penny Welch)

- Different cultures, different techniques: the significance of international collaborative learning (Christopher Goldsmith, De Montfort University)

- Social software: A bridge for formal and informal learning? (Heather Conboy, De Montfort University)

- Web 2.0, dialogue and learning in ‘the edgeless University’ (Steven Curtis, Zenab Haji-Ismail and Alexander Virley, London Metropolitan University)

Closing Remarks