Full line up for Community in Education Conference!

The Centre for Multilingualism in Education (CMU), London Metropolitan University in collaboration with the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE) is holding a one-day conference which will: examine the role of community organisations in affecting pupils’ learning and the way they contribute to children’s academic achievement.

STOP PRESS – Supplementary schools booking in advance can bring up to three people on one £20 ticket. This includes lunch for three people and you can attend all the workshops between you! Book now.

With the conference we aim also to promote and disseminate:

• work of community groups and their partnerships with mainstream organisations relating to ethnic minority children’s educational attainment;
• research into community groups particularly those related to practice in supplementary schools
• partnership models between mainstream and community organisations for wider audience to achieve maximum impact.

The conference is of interest to:

• Practitioners in mainstream and supplementary schools
• Policy makers (Local and DfE and the Home Office)
• Academics and researchers (including undergraduate and postgraduate students)
• Community representatives

 

Conference programme

9.15 – 9.45                   Registration and welcome

9.45 – 10.30             Keynote 1: Gail Tolley, Director, Children’s Services at Brent Council,

10.50 – 11.40           Parallel workshops (chose one of three)

1. Digital storytelling: university/supplementary school partnerships. J. Anderson & V. Macleroy and F. Khaled

2. Narrowing the Gap: local authority/supplementary school partnerships. J. Collins, F. Mall & J. Paxton – Barnet and Harrow; I. Syed – Milton Keynes

3. Community consortia: strength in partnership. Turkish Language and Culture Consortium and The UK Federation of Chinese Schools

11.45 – 12.30            Supplementary schools present their work: Axis Educational Trust, Elmwood Community Centre, Shpresa Albanian Programme, Edith Durham School, Hulya Turkish School, Vasil Levski Shkolo, Shishu Kishor and you!

Lunch

13.30 – 14.15            Keynote 2: Prof. Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Education

14.30- 15.40             Parallel sessions (chose two of five) 

a. Migrant community experiences within mainstream education: A. Simon and A. Tereshchenko

b. Parental/community responses to children’s educational needs: A. Bell and D. Clennon

c. Growing up bilingually through innovative approaches: M. Datta and M. & C. Charalambous

d. Identity negotiation in supplementary school settings: V. Lytra

e. Creating settings for diversity in ‘Glocal’ communities: D. Blundell & S. Abegglen and M. Pinar

To book your place: http://communityconf.eventbrite.co.uk