Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 33rd Annual Research Forum: Truth: Educational research in the era of alt truths University of Notre Dame, 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Saturday 4 August 2018 Forum 2018 Program Presentations on Saturday 4 August 2018 [Forum Invitation] [Abstracts]

The Forum activities are in The University of Notre Dame Australia's education building, the Tannock Hall of Education, corner of Cliff and Croke Streets, Fremantle. Consult your street directory for parking locations, or for public transport, note the close proximity to Fremantle Railway Station. For campus maps see [Fremantle Campus location] and select [PDF Map Fremantle].

The program given below is a draft subject to change. We estimate that the allocations of times for presenters will be finalised by about midday 29 July 2018. If you have a pressing need for a particular timing for your presentation, please advise by email to c.mcbeath@bigpond.com before end 28 July.

1.00-2.10 Plenary session	Opening: WAIER President, A/Prof Susan Beltman A word from our major sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank Keynote address: Dr Brad Gobby: Politics, education and researcher 'response ability' [Abstract]		Room 101
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
2.15-2.40 Parallel 1	Amie Fabry	Inconsistency in the early years: Diverse perspectives of pedagogical practices	Room 201
	Anisah Dickson	Letting go of the Middle Years Program: School rationales for discontinuing the Baccalaureate	Room 202
	Hiroshi Hasegawa	Investigation of how Japanese teachers manage conflicting demands from universities	Computer Lab 203
	Jyoti Keshwani (Joy)	Nomadic subjectivity, identity and agency: An ethnographic study of veiled Muslim women in WA	Room 301
	Chiu Wai Chow & E. Chapman	Construct validation of the Motivated Strategies for Learning questionnaire in a Singapore high school sample	Room 302
2.40-3.05 Parallel 2	Madeleine Dobson & Susan Beltman	Resilience and wellbeing of educators in Early Learning and Care centres	Room 201
	Greg Watkinson	The effects of school choices on the Western Australian school system	Room 202
	Donna Barwood	Understanding and challenging the dominant discourse in HPE at Edith Cowan University	Computer Lab 203
	Nina Rovis-Hermann	Who I am and who I can become: Applying a critical lens to schooling and identity	Room 301
	Fiona Tan, P. Whipp, M.Gagné & N. Van Quaquebeke	Enhancing students' metacognition through teachers' two-way interaction	Room 302
3.05-3.30 Parallel 3	Jane Merewether	Listening with young children: Enchanted animism of trees, rocks, clouds (and other things)	Room 201
	Kirsten Hancock	Associations between school absence and academic achievement: Do socioeconomics matter?	Room 202
	Andrew Jones	Investigating the 'integration of theory and practice' in examination Physical Education	Computer Lab 203
	Craig Butler	A soldier's journey: An arts-based exploration of identity	Room 301
	Ross Mackenzie	A failure of 'grammasive'proportions: How my hypothesis became an 'hypothesisn't'	Room 302
3.30-3.55	Coffee break
3.55-4.20 Parallel 4	Madeleine Dobson & Jenny Jay	#childhood: Exploring the representation of children and childhood on Instagram	Room 201
	Emily Poulton & Susan Beltman	Resilience and emotions: Teacher strategies for managing heightened emotions	Room 202
	James O'Neill	Teachers' perceptions of effective secondary mathematics teaching through the lens of the 'actions'	Computer Lab 203
	Susan Main	Ameliorating reading difficulties in secondary students	Room 301
	Sian Chapman	Criticality in Arts Education: Developing connoisseurship in the era of Pinterest	Room 302
4.20-4.45 Parallel 5	Amelia Ruscoe	"This is how we learn": Children's perspectives of childhood and learning	Room 201
	Theresa Jeewa & Susan Beltman	Doctoral students and resilience: A beginning	Room 202
	Keryn Sturrock, A. Woods-McConney & D. Pino-Pasternak	Science inquiry pedagogy in upper primary and lower secondary	Computer Lab 203
	Liam Lynch & Jane Lombard	The 'Trump effect' on intercultural learning	Room 301
	Samantha Owen	Shared history/ies but divided memory/ies? Frameworks for teaching and approaching contested histories	Room 302
4.45-5.10 Parallel 6	Pauline Roberts	Whose voices are missing: The impact of the politicking of early childhood STEM	Room 201
	Katherine Gaschk & Elaine Lewis	Community education: Challenges and triumphs!	Computer Lab 203
	Eva Dobozy	The power of education research in the 'Truthiness'/post-truth era	Room 301
	Diana van Straalen	The degree to which English teachers can successfully 'differentiate' their teaching practice	Room 302
5.10-6.00	Sundowner: [Postgraduate Awards] and [Early Career Award]

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