Diverse Teachers for Diverse Learners Conference

28-30 May 2014 

This international conference in May 2014 is being jointly organised by the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, the Diverse Teachers for Diverse Learners research network and the Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators (SAMEE).

The Diverse Teachers for Diverse Learners Network has been funded by Nordforsk since 2011 and has held two international conferences to date, in Norway (Hamar) and Finland (Helsinki) along with network symposia in Denmark (Copenhagen) and Iceland (Reykjavik).

The Glasgow conference will be organised around three core themes :

• Images of Teachers - Across the Western world teachers are predominantly white and from the majority ethnic, linguistic and cultural background of the country in which they work. What dynamics are in operation to reinforce images of who can and should be teachers? Papers in this theme will address issues around the construction of teacher identities.
• Culturally Responsive Teacher Education - What are the essential characteristics needed of culturally responsive teachers? How are these to be identified and fostered? Papers in this theme will address responses to cultural and linguistic diversity in both pre-service teacher education and continuing professional development and may be empirical studies or discussions of practice.
• Power and Identity in Policy and Practice of Teaching - Papers in this theme may be drawn from empirical studies of teacher identities or experiential accounts and narratives of the intersection of identity and power in forming professional roles. Papers covering policies aimed at increasing the differentiation of the teaching workforce - or changes in policy that restrict or hinder this process - are also invited for this theme.

Abstracts of papers on related topics, to be presented in parallel paper sessions, are invited for consideration by the academic committee.  Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas will also be considered.  The Call for Papers is available here : DTDL Call for Papers

Places can now be booked via our Online Shop.

The conference will take place in the McCance Building and the Lord Hope Building of the University of Strathclyde.  Maps can be downloaded here and here.

Information on hotel accommodation and the City of Glasgow is available from Glasgow City Marketing Bureau

Further information can be obtained from :

Professor Geri Smyth                                          
Tel : +44 141 444 8087
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or

Caroline Marley
Tel : +44 141 444 8421
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Naseem Anwar

Equality and Diversity Manager

Student Experience and Enhancement Services

University of Strathclyde

McCance Building Room 2.59
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Glasgow, G1 1XQ, Scotland

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