Preconference Workshop on Developing Empathy in Action Research

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 10th November2016

12:00 12:30 / Elliott Room –Constance Stewart Building
Welcome to preconference participants
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30 / Preconference Workshop:
Building Trust in Action Research
Ked by Allan Feldman, with Lonnie Rowell & Joe Shosh of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA)
*refreshments available
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30*
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00

We are offering an optional pre-conference interactive workshop on ‘Building Trust in Action Research’ led by Allan Feldman, with Lonnie Rowell & Joe Shosh of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA). The workshop will take place from 13:00hrs-16:00hrs and is free of charge to conference attendees, but spaces are limited so an early booking is advised.

Contact our administrator to book your place.

CARN CONFERENCE 2016

(11th-13th November 2016)

12:00 12:30 / Registration and refreshments
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30
13:30-14:00 / Welcome to CARN 2016 Hardy Building lecture theatre
14:00-14:30 / Keynote Speaker
Lin Horton Hardy Building lecture theatre
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30 / Home Group see allocation and rooming in programme insert/ Notice Board
15:30-16:00 / Tea in Foyer
16:00-16:30 / Session One: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30 / Session Two: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30
18:30-19:00 / Walk to Charlotte House Hotel (15mins see map)
19:00-19:30 / Reception at Charlotte House Hotel Lincoln
Celebrating 40th Anniversary of CARN sponsored by EARJ Taylor and Fances
19:30-22:00 / Evening Meal at Charlotte House Hotel

Friday 11th November2016

Saturday 12th November

08:30-09:00 / Regional network groups
Seminar rooms Hardy Building
09:00:-09:30
09:30-10:00 / Session Three: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
10:00-10:30
11:00-11:30 / COFFEE
11:30-12:00 / Networking
12:00 12:30 / Session Four: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30 / LUNCH
Poster exhibition in Foyer Hardy Building*
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30 / Keynote Speaker
Larry Flanagan
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30 / Home Group: see allocation and rooming in programme insert/ Notice Board
15:30-16:00 / Session Five: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00 / TEA
17:00-17:30 / Session Six: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30 / Free time
18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30 / GALA DINNER Constance Stewart Building BGU

*Posters

Glaubman Rivka & Hananyah Bar-llan University

Hettiarachchi Rama Divisional Ed Office Udubaaddawa

Radits FranzUniversity of Vienna/Austria University

Sunday 13th November 2016

08:30-09:00
09:00:-09:30 / Session Seven: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars
Pecha Kucha See programme for details and rooming.
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:30 / Key Speaker
Prof Mark Hadfield
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30 / COFFEE
11:30-12:00 / Session Eight: Workshops/presentations/round tables/seminars Pecha Kucha. See programme for details and rooming.
12:00 12:30
12:30-13:00 / Closing comments and vote of thanks (?)
13:00-13:30 / SANDWICH LUNCH
13:30-14:00 / CARN Steering Group meeting – All Welcome
14:00-14:30

Friday 11th November2016

Session One 16:00-17:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
One Hour Workshop / Jane Christie (Lothian NHS ) / A collaborative inquiry and development of practice – Working together to find evidence of person-centred practice.
Seminar 2
Presentations
Pecha Kucha / Josephine Bleach National College of Ireland 30 mins / Using Community Action Research to Navigate Local, National and International Networks
Elia Fernandez-Diaz
University of Cantabria
30 mins / University-School Contexts and voices from the classroom: rethinking collaboration through action research.
Seminar 3
One hour
Symposium / MariaFlores
University of Minho, Portugal / This symposium is organised within the Network of Collaborative Action Research in the Portuguese-speaking world.
Seminar 4
1 Pecha Kucha Presentation
1 Presentation / Máirín Glenn, NEARI (Network of Educational Action Research Ireland)
30 mins / Warning: Action Research may be for life ¬ not just a project.
AnneJames
Liverpool Hope University
30 mins / Re-visioning professional practice through an action research study.
Seminar 5
One hour
Round Table Discussion / MallikaKanyal
Anglia Ruskin University / Participatory research and its place in higher education politics and pedagogy: issues and challenges.
Seminar 6
X2 Presentations / Franz Rauch
Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt 30 mins / Case Study: University Course „Education for Sustainable Development – Innovations in Teachers Education.
HjordisThorgeinstott
Upper secondary school in Iceland Gudjonsson, Hafthor, University of Iceland 30 mins / The role of an outside consultant in an action research group: Two viewpoints.
Seminar 7
One hour Roundtable Discussion / Jane Springett
University of Alberta / Scaling up collaborative action research: is it possible? The example of the School Community Wellness Fund in Alberta, Canada and beyond.

Friday 11th November2016

Session Two 17:00-18:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
One hour Round Table
Discussion / Ari Lindeman
Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences / From multidisciplinary gaze towards interdisciplinary development The purpose of the round table is to increase understanding of how professional work in the social and healthcare fields can be approached by interdisciplinary means.
Seminar 2
X2 Presentations / Antony Luby
Bishop Grosseteste University 30mins / Professional Conversations: ‘Jisthaein’ a blether’ or a better way to conduct research interviews?
Irina Madeyeva
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools Kazakhstan.
30 mins / This study is carried out to identify the main features and barriers to carrying out successful Action Research and Lesson Study projects at Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS),
Seminar 3
Round Table Discussion / Paulette Luff
Anglia Ruskin University
One hour / The proposed discussion topic is the importance of developing an evidence base for learning and teaching grounded in classroom experience
Seminar 4
Workshop
Presentations / Ruth Balogh
CARN
Glasgow University
30mins / Watching our language and the Deity mode of speech: can we improve the clarity of our encounters through relinquishing 'being'? An invitation to experiment with avoiding the English verb 'to be' by using 'E-prime'
WilbertRanasinghe
Retired English Teacher Sri Lanka 30 mins / We are all winners! How are the students in a rural school transformed into exponents in English Language?
Seminar 5
One Hour / SPACE
Seminar 6
1 Pecha Kucha Presentation
Presentation / MarittaTorronen
Anglia Ruskin University
30 mins / The Reciprocal Relationships and Young People Leaving Care.
Lonnie Rowell ARNA
JoeShosh
Moravian College
30 mins / Lead editor Lonnie Rowell and associate editor JoeShosh will provide an overview of a newly published resource, The International Handbook of Action Research (Palgrave 2016),
Seminar 7
One Hour Workshop / Gary Shepherd
York St John / A Critical Reflection Action Learning (CRAL) Workshop.

Saturday 12th November2016

Session Three: 9:00-10:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
One hour Workshop / Aileen Ackland University of Aberdeen / Exploring the personal, political and professional through participatory drama .Workshop participants will share a brief experience of a typical Boal-inspired activity and discussion.
Seminar 2
Presentation
Presentation / Doris Elster
University of Bremen
30 mins / Student teachers investigate their teaching within a practical course as a process of Action Research.
Eleni Katsarou University of Crete
30mins / Institutionalizing educational action research: reflections on a case from Greece : the dominance of neoliberal politics and practices and the transformation of teaching and research into technical enterprises.
Seminar 3
Presentation
Presentation / Helen Atkin Northumbria University
30mins / The Ducking Stool: Using visual methodology in collaborative action research to reveal, challenge and change assumptions about neurological rehabilitation practice.
Mark Rickenbach University of Winchester 30 mins / An Integrated care clinic for frail patients and the use of action research.
Seminar 4
Presentation
Presentation +Poster in Foyer / Deborah Fisher
Lincoln FE College / Using Action Research Overcoming negative school experience.
Bruce Ferguson (Pip)
Dublin City University / Living, learning, leading – reflections on a lifetime of action research.
Seminar 5
One hour
Workshop / Tamar Meirovitz
Shai Aran
David Yellin Academic College of Education
30 mins / The Digital Gap: addressing shifting conceptualization of digital instruction in EFL Methodology – the case of Israel.
Seminar 6
Presentation
Presentation / Mat Noor +MohdSyafiqAiman
University College London 30 mins / Classroom Action Research: The Dual-role as Teacher-researcher.
Valerie jakar
Shaanan Academic College of Education Israel / Learners’ Lives as Curriculum: a narration about narratives.
Seminar 7
One hour
Workshop
/ Marie Huxtable & Jack Whitehead University of Cumbria
/ In this workshop participants will work together to develop their understanding and practice of Living Educational Theory research.

Saturday 12th November2016

Session Four: 12:00-13:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
One hour
Workshop / Satoshi Suzuki
Japan Association of Action Research / The aim of this workshop is that the participants can learn practically how to discuss “actual feeling of situation” using Rich Picture (RP) in the way of the Japanese style AR.
Seminar 2
Presentation
Presentation / Janice Watson
University of East Anglia30 mins / This presentation seeks to examine the impact of a Year 3 BA in Education module (Creativity and Learning) on former students’ professional practice.
Jack Whitehead University of Cumbria 30 mins / How am I integrating the personal and political in improving professional practice with collaborative action research?
Seminar 3
One hour Symposium / Caitriona McDonagh and Máirín Glenn,
NEARI (Network of Educational Action Research Ireland) / As we reflect in this symposium, on educational research and practice in our personal, political and professional worlds, we consider the dialectical relationship that exists between theory and practice in the current climate of accountability.
Seminar 4
Presentation
30 mins
Presentation / Josephine Bleach
National College of Ireland 30 mins / + Bruce Ferguson (Pip) Why do networks matter?
Using Community Action Research to Navigate Local, National and International Networks.
Mary McAteer and Lesley Wood
Edge Hill University / What parents really want: responding to community needs for school support through participatory action research.
Seminar 5
One hour
Symposium / Suzanne Kümpers,
Martina Ritter,
Monika. Alisch
. / Peculiarities, potentials and limits of participatory research processes with older people..
Fulda University of Applied Sciences Dep
Social Work; Dep. of Health
Seminar 6
Presentation
Pecha Kucha
30 mins / Ina Schaefer
Alice Salomon University of Applied Social Science 30 mins / An engaging architecture for municipal research coalitions in Germany.
JonaTorfadottirSigurrosErlingsdottir
Sund Junior College, Reykjavik, Iceland / In this presentation we, two secondary school teachers who teach Icelandic language and literature, will explain how and why we started to flip our classroom.
Seminar 7
Presentation / Tamar Meirovitz
David Yellin Academic College of Education / Implementation of The Social Metacognitive Intervention in an Action Research paradigm.
Luis Villacanas
University of Valencia 30 mins / Using Participatory Action Research in Teacher Education with focus on (EFL) pre-service teachers developing cultural insights through PAR.

Saturday 12th November2016

Session Five 15:30-16:30

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
Presentation
Presentation
30 mins / BolatNassygazy
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools, Kazakhstan
30 mins / This study is carried out to identify the main features and barriers to carrying out successful Action Research and Lesson Study projects at Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS),
Tsafos Vassilis
University of Athens / Narrative and action research in teacher education: a study in the university of Athens.
Seminar 2
Presentation
30 mins
Presentation
30 mins / Pushpamala SA
Zonal Ed. Office, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka / Title: We all are talented: Awareness of the effectiveness of multilevel teaching-learning process of primary level teachers.
ZacariasZemichael
Eritrea Institute of Technology / Collaborative Action for Quality Teacher Education: Experiences from Eritrea.
Seminar 3
Presentation
Presentation / SølviThuv
Nord university
30 mins / Opening a space, or “deliberation,” as a starting point for group teaching and research in teacher education.
Annette Moir
University of Aberdeen
30 mins / “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship”. A Participatory Action Research study that seeks to explore children’s resilience and awareness.
Seminar 4
Presentation
30 mins
Symposium / Valerie Jakar
Shaanan Academic College of Education Israel / Common issues and challenges which the researchers faced Research in Action: using our narratives as texts for development.
CanniceFrederick.(Kenny)Brunel University / Teacher Rounds as a formative intervention to improve the practice of teaching.
Seminar 5
Presentation
30 mins
Presentation / Tina Cook
Northumbria University / Losing focus in focus groups: the politics and practise of disruption.
Jane O'Connell
Trinity College School of Education 30 mins / Integrating the Personal and Political in Professional Practice: A School-based Action Research Project engaging students and parents with the Irish Language.
Seminar 6
Pecha Kucha
Presentation / Marianne den Otter
Fontys OSO 30 mins / Collaboration from a holistic perspective.
Kenichi Uchiyama
Dalto Bunka University
Japan30 mins / Discussion on the “Accommological Action Research” which has been developed by the presenter and others.
Seminar 7
One hour
Round Table / Andy Convery (CARN)
Valerie Harle
Fiona Lawerence
Elaiaine Mattinson / Keeping it Real: The Search for Integrity in Vocational Teacher Education.

Saturday 12th November2016

Session Six 17:00-18:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
One hour
Workshop / Carol Munn-Giddings
Anglia Ruskin University.
Ruth Balogh CARN / Getting published in the CARN Bulletin and in Educational Action Research. (EARJ). The session is aimed at helping participants think about publication routes for their CARN presentations and covers.
Seminar 2
Presentation
Presentation
30 mins / Jill Wickham
York St John university
30 mins / Educating Physiotherapy Students: An Empathic Approach Using Films of Service Users to Facilitate Deep Learning Physiotherapy students.
ElzbietaWolodzko University of WarmiaMazury, Poland / Learning cultures in transitions – collaborative action research within different knowledge disciplines.
Seminar 3
One hour
Symposium / Lonnie Rowell
University of San Diego / This symposium will address personal and political dimensions of incorporating graduate student action research as a capstone experience in counsellor training.
Seminar 4
Presentation
Presentation / Rachael Paige
Bishop Grosseteste University
30mins / What is teacher presence? The outcomes of collaborative work with trainee teachers using a reciprocal approach with a practicing teacher.
NildaStecanela
University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil 30mins / Action research and research skills in school: a naturalised practice or the celebration of a practice?
Seminar 5
One hour
Workshop / Angela Schuster
University of KlagenfurtFranz Rauch / CARN-D.A.CH. – A German Speaking Network. Including an CARN members who do not speak German.
Seminar 6
Presentation
Presentation
30mins / Chris Pols
Lectorate Teachers in Collaboration Fontys
30mins / Giving vulnerable young people a voice: A critical investigation into the views and experiences of a group of learners with learning difficulties in their transition from school to work.
Peter Sjogren
Malardalen University Sweden / How is PAR treated in Design Research?
A review of the methodology.
Seminar 7
Presentation
30 mins / Podinilame, Sirimewan
Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
30 mins / An outstanding service through an effective change project : How is the Zonal education office of Kurunegala managing change?
SPACE

Sunday 13th November 2016

Session Seven 9:00-10:00

Rooms in
HARDY Building / Presenter / Title
Seminar 1
Presentation
Presentation / Michael Mavromihales. University of Huddersfield
30mins / Games-based learning (GBL) has been widely used in a selection of subject areas, within the Higher Education (HE) sector and implications for group collaboration in learning.
Mary McAteer
Edge Hill University / Quality in Action Research: Satisfying Methodological and the Practical Domains
Seminar 2 / Bruce Damons
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Lesley Wood NWU / Supporting and sustaining community volunteerism in a community school.
Seminar 3
Presentation
Presentation / Tamiko Kondo
York St John University
30 mins / 'Can teachers influence education policy-making?: possible new directions for educational action research.'
Saraswatid Ghosh.com EritreaInstitute of Technology 30 mins / Teacher’s professional responsibilities in and out of classroom activities and collaborative work spirit.- (no abstract)
Seminar 4
Presentation / Marie Huxtable
University of Cumbria
30 mins / Integrating ‘the personal, the political, the professional, and the practice’ that gives meaning and purpose to my life and work.
Eleni Katsarou University of Crete 30mins / Crucial issues of representation in educational action research and their impact on professional practice.
Seminar 5 / SPACE
Seminar 6
One hour
workshop / MariaFlores
University of Minho, Portugal / Action Research in Teacher Education: potential and challenges The paper presents the framework and implementation of the research dimension within the Master degree in Teaching,

Sunday 13th November 2016

Session Eight 11:30-12:30

Including spaces for additional/ missing papers