Centre for Education Research and Scholarship
BIO Dr. Ambreen Mohammad completed her doctorate at Johns Hopkins University, US with a specialization in entrepreneurial leadership. She is the recipient of a merit scholarship in leadership and management research from Johns Hopkins University. Before working in academia, she was the vice principal of two K-12 international schools in the UAE. Ambreen has consulted…
Abstract: This presentation offers further insights into Osgood’s work with Arboreal methodologies in childhood studies. She contests that arboreal methodologies invite immersive, affective bodily engagements with natureculture that are opportunities to experience the world differently and so take the non-innocence of nature more seriously. This is especially pressing for childhoods of the Anthropocene, the current…
In this seminar the idea of the land of ‘a’ school as research site as neutral is troubled. Karen Barad (2017) refers to Trinity, in New Mexico, in the USA, the testing site of the first atomic bomb as “wounded ground.” I propose the research site of the school where I was a teacher for…
Liminality, Uncertainty and Troublesome Knowledge in Learning at Work with Professor Karen Evans 20th June, 11am – 12:30pm (UK) Virtual Event This talk explores the learning generated through engagement with troublesome knowledge in changing work contexts. Liminality is integral to the post-qualification experiences of occupational groups profoundly impacted by disruptive societal changes. Workers in health…
Abstract: What’s Theatre Got To Do With It? Performance, Everyday Life and Futures This paper was given at the final conference of the Future laboratories for professional and personal development – FUTURES (2020-2023) project. This is a European project which emphasizes the importance of high-quality adaptation skills as the means to support individuals in acquiring and…
Abstract: What’s Theatre Got To Do With It? Performance, Everyday Life and Futures This paper was given at the final conference of the Future laboratories for professional and personal development – FUTURES (2020-2023) project. This is a European project which emphasizes the importance of high-quality adaptation skills as the means to support individuals in acquiring and…
Abstract This paper offers a Playful Archive which t(h)reads a path through research undertaken in childhood studies over the past decade that insist uncertainty, speculation, and curiosity displace conventions that rest upon a search for knowability, linearity and solutions. The intention is for this Playful Archive to weave the promise of post-foundational inquiry through a…
Abstract: this presentation will consider difficult dialogues that may happen with your students or young children through either provocations or natural, historic and authentic experiences. The examples reflect an International dialogue of difficulty, that draw on colonialism from the past, and aggression that is now happening currently in the Ukraine. It focuses on how as a…