Nineteenth International Conference on Learning at the Institute of Learning in London
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NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 14-16 AUGUST 2012 http://TheLearner.com TABLE OF CONTENTS THE LEARNER........................................................................................................................................ 3 LETTER FROM CONFERENCE HOST ............................................................................................................. 4 ABOUT COMMON GROUND ........................................................................................................................... 5 THE LEARNER KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY .................................................................................................. 5 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE ............................................................................................................................ 6 SCOPE AND CONCERNS ............................................................................................................................ 6 SESSION DESCRIPTIONS ..........................................................................................................................10 SESSION GUIDELINES ...............................................................................................................................10 SESSION TYPES ........................................................................................................................................10 THEMES ......................................................................................................................................................11 CONFERENCE PROGRAM................................................................................................................... 12 DAILY SCHEDULE ..........................................................................................................................................13 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS ..........................................................................................................................17 FEATURED SESSIONS ...............................................................................................................................17 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ..........................................................................................................................17 PLENARY SPEAKERS ....................................................................................................................................18 PROGRAM ......................................................................................................................................................19 TUESDAY, 14 AUGUST ...............................................................................................................................19 WEDNESDAY, 15 AUGUST .........................................................................................................................35 THURSDAY, 16 AUGUST ............................................................................................................................57 GRADUATE SCHOLARS ................................................................................................................................73 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD ...........................................................................................................76 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ......................................................................................................................76 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ................................................................................................................................77 PUBLISHING INFORMATION ............................................................................................................... 89 ABOUT THE JOURNAL ..................................................................................................................................90 SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION .....................................................................................................................92 SUBMISSION INFORMATION .........................................................................................................................93 THE LEARNER BOOK SERIES ............................................................................................................ 94 SUBMIT YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL ................................................................................................................95 TYPE OF BOOKS ............................................................................................................................................95 PROPOSAL GUIDELINES ...............................................................................................................................95 FEATURED BOOKS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND ........................................................................96 CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS ......................................................................................................................97 OTHER SELECTED JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND ........................................................98 EVALUATION FORM ...........................................................................................................................................99 THE LEARNER LETTER FROM CONFERENCE HOST Dear Learning Conference Delegate, Welcome to the Nineteenth International Conference on Learning at the Institute of Learning in London. This series of conferences began in 1989 in Sydney, Australia, with a focus on literacy and learning. Initially, the conference served as an avenue for exploring ‘genre-based’ approaches to literacy. Since then, the scope has broadened, though literacy has remained one of the key conference themes. The intellectual trajectory of the conference had broadened by the mid 1990s, with the development of the idea of ‘multiliteracies’. This idea was grounded in the recognition that there are many more educationally relevant language forms beyond the standard forms of national languages which had been the characteristic focus of school literacy. It was also based on that idea that there are many more relevant modes of communication and representation beyond alphabetical literacy, a perspective that has become even more pressing with the emergence of new media. The Learning Conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for the particular role education is playing in social, cultural and economic change. In recent years, the Conference has been held at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA in 2008; the University of Barcelona, Spain in 2009; the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong in 2010; and the University of Mauritius, Mauritius, in 2011. We also hope that you will join us next year in Rhodes, Greece from 11-13 July, to continue this multifaceted conversation. In addition to organizing the Learning Conference, Common Ground publishes selected papers from conference attendees at http://thelearner.com/publications/journal, and we do encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at http://thelearner.com in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our email newsletter, as well as our Facebook page and Twitter feeds at http://thelearner.com. Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including diversity, museums, technology, humanities and the arts, to name several (see http://commongroundpublishing.com). Our aim is to create a new form of the knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access via digital media. We are also committed to creating a more accessible, open and reliable peer review process. Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for academics from developing countries, for emerging scholars and for researchers from institutions that have historically focused on teaching. Thank you to all who have put such a phenomenal amount of work into preparing for the Learning Conference. I would like to particularly thank my Common Ground colleagues for all of their work on the conference, especially Abigail Manekin, Brian Kornell, and Phillip Kalantzis-Cope. We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. And we hope you will be able to join us at next year’s conference in Rhodes! Yours Sincerely, Dr. Kathryn Sloane Weisbaum Director of Conference Development Common Ground Publishing 2012 International Conference on Learning ABOUT COMMON GROUND MISSION: Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.