Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 34th Annual Research Forum: A Climate of change: Research-informed education for the future University of Notre Dame, 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Saturday 3 August 2019 Forum 2019 Program Presentations on Saturday 3 August 2019 [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 2019. 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.

1.00-2.00 Plenary session	Opening: WAIER President, A/Prof Eva Dobozy Keynote address: Professor Mindy Blaise: Becoming-with Merri Merri: Experimental multispecies storytelling as an ethical practice [Abstract]		Room 101
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
2.10-2.35 Parallel 1	Jennifer Featch, Laura Perry & Susan Ledger	The benefits and disadvantages of elite education: Was it worth it?	Room 201
	Alison Hilton	"It hurt my heart and my wallet": Student experiences of undertaking LANTITE	Room 202
	Round table presentations: Susan Beltman - Teacher resilience: Whose responsibility?; Fiona Boylan - What is mindset and why does it matter?; Pauline Roberts - The science of sustainability in early childhood: Engaging now for an informed future		Computer Lab 203
	Madeleine Dobson & Jenny Jay	Instagram. Navigating process and intention in a parent's representation of family life	Room 301
	Rebecca Saunders, Lee Lenyk & Emma Boyne	Understanding participants' journeys of meditative change - implications for course design	Room 302
2.35-3.00 Parallel 2	Brad Gobby	Community empowerment or business as usual? Independent Public Schools and school boards	Room 201
	Liz O'Sullivan	Initial teacher education students	Room 202
	Round table presentations (continued): Susan Beltman - Teacher resilience: Whose responsibility?; Fiona Boylan - What is mindset and why does it matter?; Pauline Roberts - The science of sustainability in early childhood: Engaging now for an informed future		Computer Lab 203
	Samantha Owen & Sharon Davies	Developing digital literacies and introducing digital technologies in Montessori early childhood education	Room 301
	Christine Robinson	Accidently spiritual	Room 302
3.00-3.25 Parallel 3	Nina Rovis-Hermann	How are upper secondary students navigating the meritocratic identity market underpinning public schooling	Room 201
	Lucie McCrory	Perceptions of Year 12 Catholic school students towards teaching as a career choice	Room 202
	John O'Rourke, Christina Holly & Christopher Kueh	Co-designing a digital communication tool to support secondary students with autism	Room 301
	Antonella Poncini	Perceptions of large-scale, testing in religious education: The Bishops' Religious Literacy Assessment?	Room 302
3.25-3.50	Coffee break
3.50-4.15 Parallel 4	Olivia Johnston	Considering student voices about their teacher expectations: Insights and interrogations	Room 201
	Amelia Ruscoe	Focus 19 - Issues of urgency in Western Australia: A discourse analysis	Room 202
	Susan Ledger, Sandi Fielder & Liz O'Sullivan	Lesson plans: Tools for demonstrating effective teaching	Computer Lab 203
	Elaine Lewis	Little Green Steps WA: Longitudinal case study of outcomes in education for sustainability in the early years	Room 301
	Jelena Rakovic, Tom O'Donoghue & Simon Clarke	Leaders and leadership in Serbian primary schools: Perspectives across two worlds	Room 302
4.15-4.40 Parallel 5	Kirsten Hancock	What happened to student absences when the transition year to secondary school was lowered from Y 8 to Y 7?	Room 201
	Kimberley Beasley	Botanical literacies in early childhood	Room 202
	Beverley Webster & Melanie Brown	Actionable feedback improving student learning	Computer Lab 203
	Jane Merewether	Education and climate change: Matters of care	Room 301
	Ben Nilsson	English teachers and the Asia Literacy priority: Is it really a priority?	Room 302
4.40-5.05 Parallel 6	Evalena Lowe, Paul Rycroft, Duncan Picknoll & Paola Chivers	Teacher-directed violence by students in WA: An exploratory study	Room 201
	Madeleine Dobson & Jenny Jay	"Pretty little squares": An exploration and critique of the picturesque representation of children on Instagram	Room 202
	Henny Nastiti & Jeremy Pagram	Comparative pairs judgements method: Design and Visual Arts	Computer Lab 203
	Katherine Gaschk & Catherine Baudains	A climate for change? Challenges for household waste separation	Room 301
	Michael Down, B. Piggott & D. Picknol	Benefits of extended outdoor adventure education programs for adolescent well-being in WA	Room 302
5.10-6.00	Sundowner: [Postgraduate Awards] and [Early Career Award]

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