[Catalist] Curtin STEM Colloquium

[Kok-Sing Tang]

Dear STAWA members

My name is Kok-Sing Tang and I am the Discipline Lead for the STEM Education Research Group at Curtin University. We are organising a regular series of seminars on STEM education research from March to May, and we would like to invite you to join us. Admission is free and all are welcome. Here is a list of the seminars:

March 5 - Emeritus Professor Léonie Rennie
Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years

March 12 - Professor Dawn Bennett	
Engaging Pre-service STEM Educators in the Future of STEM in WA

March 19 - A/Professor Rachel Sheffield	
Transnational STEM Makerspaces: A New Approach to Learning

March 26 - Dr Audrey Cooke & A/Professor Jenny Jay
What mathematical engagement and thinking might really young children show while playing in their learning centre?

April 2 - Magdalena Kersting	
The potential of digital and virtual science exhibits in informal learning spaces  - a case study at the Gravity Discovery Centre

April 16 - Melanie Williams 	
The gestural mode reduces the language gap for Chinese emergent bilinguals in science 

April 30 - Professor Rob Cavanagh	
Natural semantic meta-language as an approach to measuring meaning

May 7 - Meidan Xu	
Individual differences in technology teachers' professional attitude towards technology: An investigation of Chinese high school general technology teachers

May 14 - Jana Benson	
Developing and validating a tool to assess learner agency and understanding existing practice in a NZ primary school

May 21 - Dr Joonhyeong Park	
An analysis on the patterns of interplay among different levels of representations shown in students' drawings to construct scientific explanations

May 28 - Dr Jina Chang	
Identifying ways that students construct and visualize explanations in scientific drawings: From the perspective of "Norms"

You can find out more information about the seminars here: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f4o6ggj7s0dbrc2/Curtin%20STEM%20colloquium%20program%20S1%202019.pdf?dl=0 

Or register your interest on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/curtineducation/events/ 

We hope you can join us!


Kind regards,

Kok-Sing TANG
Associate Professor  | School of Education
Discipline Lead | STEM Education Research Group
Co-founder & Coordinator | ESERA SIG Languages & Literacies in Science Education
Associate Editor | Pedagogies: An International Journal
Editorial Board Member | Science Education

Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 2080 

Email | kok-sing.tang at curtin.edu.au 
Web | https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Kok-Sing.Tang
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