On Wednesday 20 July, the school hosted a symposium where researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield working at the interface of cognitive linguistics and education presented short papers outlining their work and discussed potential avenues for further collaboration and projects.
The speakers were Marcello Giovanelli (Nottingham), Jessica Mason (Sheffield), Sarah Jackson (Sheffield), Ian Cushing (Nottingham), Furzeen Ahmed (Nottingham), and Sally Zacharias (Nottingham). Topics included Text World Theory, visual representations and poetry teaching, discourse analysis, narrative schemas, and the construction of identity in the literature classroom. Researchers spoke about their projects working with pre-school children, with students in secondary schools, and with teachers.
The symposium was kindly sponsored by the Learning Sciences Research Institute.
Posted on Tuesday 26th July 2016