School of Education

Our first conference of 2025 will take place on 22 February and the learning will focus on The Culture of Childhood, with, for the first time every in Scotland, a groundbreaking keynote presentation from Dr Dan Wuori.

More information on this conference can be found on School of Humanities webpage.

During this session we will discuss how to nurture creativity skills through various pedagogical approaches. Using artworks from a variety of time periods and cultural contexts I will demonstrate how the visual arts can be used as a provocation to challenge and enhance cross curricular thinking. This session will be interactive, and questions are encouraged.

More information can be found on the School of Education webpage.

This CLPL will support practitioners to reflect on the role of parents and families in their setting and to explore effective strategies to connect with and engage parents and families from diverse contexts. We will also consider how to mitigate against potential obstacles to engagement.

The session(s) will encourage participants to consider how to:

- incorporate self-reflective tools into professional practice
- cultivate respectful, collaborative relationships with parents and families  
- strengthen relationships with parents and families which are firmly rooted in the unique context of the school and community.  

More information can be found on the School of Education webpage.  

This training examines the power of play for young children.

Session 1 : focuses on the design of effective learning spaces for young children with reference to the continuum of play and Tina Bruce’s 12 features of play.

Session 2 : explores context, capital and childhood. Context – understanding the image of the child.
Capital – understanding the influence of the child.
Childhood- understanding the importance of the child.

Session 3 : examines high -quality learning and high-quality teaching. This session also revisits high quality learning spaces. Key links are made to theory and international examples. 

Session 4 : In this final session, the key points are related to defining childhood through careful observations and evaluations.

More information can be found on the Humanities and Social Sciences webpage.