NEWS
Faculty of Education, Annual Dean’s Forum hosted by COMBER
COMBER Conference 2019
Extending the boundaries of Educational Research
21 November 2019
The Community-based Educational Research Executive Niche Research Director, Professor Lesley Wood welcomed all delegates and attendees to the Faculty of Educations Annual Dean’s Forum 2019 and the first COMBER Conference.
COMBER is a research niche area with a focus on community-based educational research, where community refers to any group of people working together to improve their situation. We do research within the broad field of education that has an educative, emancipatory and political intent. Community-based educational research is not a methodology in itself, but rather an umbrella term for approaches that share epistemological and ontological ideals that recognize and validate knowledge generated and disseminated through various forms, other than the textual.
Prof Wood encouraged the delegates to take the opportunity provided by this conference to network and form strong working relations so that we can collaborate to build effective partnerships to promote community-based educational research.
COMBER Pre-Conference Workshop
Embodying Lived Experience Through Drama-In-Education for Social Change
Professor Logamurthie Athiemoolam
20 November 2019
Professor Logan Athiemoolam facilitated a workshop where participants were exposed to the various ways in which drama-in-education could be implemented to explore lived experiences of socio-economic challenges. The participants were guided to examine how the issues/themes emerging from the improvised drama could be used for research purposes. At the end of the workshop, participants were able to create tableaus on issues of concern affecting their community; develop the tableau into a short role play; use resources such as newspaper articles/ texts as stimuli to create role plays and tableaus; adapt the tableaus and role plays into an improvised play; examine how drama-in- education strategies could be used for research purposes; identify and analyse themes emerging from the drama pedagogy process for research.
COMBER Pre-Conference Workshop
Data Generation Methods for Action Research-Prof Mary Brydon-Miller
20 November 2019
COMBER Extraordinary Professor Mary Brydon-Miller facilitated a workshop where participants were introduced to the use of appropriate data generation methods for Participatory Action Research (PAR), by means of exploring some of the emerging methods currently being developed by participatory action researchers from around the world.
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