The Parenting Involvement Goes Online research team has been examining publicly available evidence regarding the impacts of lockdown in the education domain. This webinar will look at how the implementation of home-based learning was debated, experienced and reflected upon by multiple stakeholder groups during 2020. Claims about what was good, bad, new, or familiar about home-based learning in lockdown will be analysed in two presentations followed by discussion. The team will also preview their new government funded project commencing 2021 which will examine the status of school-home digital connectivity, and investigate issues of digital inclusion and exclusion.

This webinar includes two presentations:

1.- ‘Education in lockdown: Mapping an emerging field’

Presenters:

Associate Professor Sue Nichols is a senior researcher in UniSA Education Futures and a member of the Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (RESI) Concentration. Her research in the fields of literacy, family involvement, practitioner inquiry and inclusive education has been supported by national competitive and university grants. She has worked in collaboration with many professional and community organisations to investigate learner participation and literacy development. Her research crosses diverse contexts including health services, libraries universities, school classrooms, kindergartens, shopping malls and religious organisations.

Dr Hannah Soong is an applied sociologist in international education and migration studies and a member of the Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (RESI) Concentration. She is also a Course Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education Practice in UniSA Education Futures. She has specialised interests in the effects of social and cultural forces shaping the education and migration nexus and its related aspiration.

Dr Michelle Neumann is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in th e field of early childhood education, literacy development, ICT and science education at Griffith University. Prior to joining the School of Educational and Professional Studies, Michelle was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Griffith Institute for Educational Research. Michelle holds professional memberships with the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading (SSSR), Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) as well as with the Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER), Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) and Education Queensland (EQ).

2. 'From the margins to the centre: New players taking the education stag’

Presenters:

Professor Karen Dooley is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on language and literacy education in conditions of economic disparity and linguistic and cultural difference. She is currently working on a project on the use of private literacy tutoring in Australia.

Dr Rebecca English teaches into the BCT Curriculum area as well as the sociocultural studies units in the Faculty of Education. She was a teacher in both the Catholic Education and Education Queensland sectors for seven years.