Symposium on Wednesday 30th October 2024 (online)
We are delighted to announce the programme for our ‘Stylistics in Education’ symposium.
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09:30-09:45: Welcome and introduction
Symposium organising team
09:45-10:45: Panel 1 Ethical considerations
“You will get pregnant”: representation of contraception responsibility in school sex education
Kerry Miller, University of Sheffield
Planet Omar, deliberate empathy dynamo: addressing prejudice through school-based reading interventions
Rebecca L. Connor-Evans, Sheffield Hallam University
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-12:00: Panel 2 Teacher beliefs and identity
History is theirs whose language is the sun: exploring the effects of using Pedagogical Stylistics on the professional identity and wellbeing of secondary school English teachers
Christopher Walker, Aston University
‘As dry as a camel’s arse in a sandstorm’: exploring how conceptualisations of grammar can impact teacher identity
Isabella Wetson, Aston University
12:00-12:40: Lunch
12:40-13:40: Plenary
‘Metaphor we teach by’: using metaphor for engagement in education
Kimberley Pager-McClymont, University of Aberdeen ISC
13:40-14:40: Panel 3 Stylistics and teaching English
Using Text World Theory to investigate religious identity in the English literature classroom
Furzeen Ahmed, Aston University
Experiencing literature in the poetry classroom: teachers and students as discourse-world participant
Marcello Giovanelli, Aston University
14:40-15:00: Break
15:00-16:00: Panel 4 Metaphor and education
“English … it’s messy”: using narrative and metaphor analysis to examine negative capability as a professional characteristic of English teachers
Caroline Godfrey, Aston University
A phenomenological exploration of the experience of metaphor among teachers from different disciplines
Dorothy Munro, University of Glasgow
16:00-16:15: Closing remarks
Symposium organising team
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