COE to hold first Faculty Research Conference on February 1
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The University of Georgia College of Education will hold its first Faculty Research Conference to share the outstanding work of its faculty on Friday, February 1 at the Georgia Hotel and Conference Center at the Georgia Center.
David Berliner, Regents Professor Education Emeritus at Arizona State University, a world-renown scholar and researcher in educational psychology will deliver a keynote address at 3 p.m. in Dogwood Hall.
Berliner has taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford University, as well as universities abroad. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has received numerous awards for his distinguished contributions.
He is co-author of the best seller The Manufactured Crisis, co-author of Putting Research to Work, and co-author of the textbook Educational Psychology, now in its 6th edition. His latest book, Collateral Damage is about the corruption of professional educators through high-stakes testing. Berliner has also authored more than 200 published articles, technical reports and book chapters.
The conference, whose theme is “Research for Improving the Lives and Futures of Georgia’s Youth and Adults,”will also feature panel and roundtable sessions led by several of our outstanding scholars on the following topics:
- Poverty in Education/Social Justice
- Innovative Research Methods
- Evidence-Based Research
- Teacher Education Research
- Innovations in Learning in the Classroom
- Doctoral Research Preparation
The conference will be from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. A lunch presentation on the COE Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Education and Human Development will be made by Institute Director Allan Cohen and several directors of research centers in the institute.
The luncheon is for only registered faculty and invited guests but all other activities are open to the public.
There will be a post-conference reception from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Magnolia Ballroom.
For more information or to register online, visit: www.coe.uga.edu/frc/