2020 IPDA Conference
2020 International Conference
27-28 November 2020
Imagining the post-professional
Identity, ethics and response-ability beyond professional standards
The IPDA International Conference 2020 explored identity, ethics and response-ability beyond professional standards.
Working with people in contexts patterned by contemporary global challenges that create economic and social inequalities, framed by austerity, forced migration, climate emergency, conflicting values in multicultural societies, and discourses of ‘post truth’ that mistrust ‘expertise’, means that meeting standards is often an inadequate preparation for practitioners to work effectively in front line contexts.
CONFERENCE RESOURCES
IPDA members can access a range of resources from the event, including keynote presentations, lightning talk videos and poster presentations, as well as artwork produced by our event poet and artist.
KEY Questions
What does it mean to be professional in the 21st century, and how do we define professionalism?
What is the role, purpose and limitations of professional standards? Do we need them, and what could we do without them? Whose interests do they serve? What happens differently in contexts where practitioner education is not standards led?
What might ‘post-standards’ professionalism look like? How do we practise in contexts of uncertainty?
What is professional knowledge-making like in the post-professional age? Who makes it? Where is it made? Who is it for? What does it do? Where are the tensions?
What are the implications of all these questions for professional identity making? And being and doing in practice spaces?
Why must we continue to talk about race, class, gender and sexualities in the context of professional identity making?
What does it mean to practise ethically? To be responsible and response-able in our practice?
What does all this mean for: students, educators, leaders, policy-makers and communities?
Keynote Presentations
Dr Katie Strom
Toward a Complex Conceptualization of Teacher Learning-Practice
Prof Raj Mestry
Empowering principals to lead and manage public schools effectively in the 21st century
Dr Vince Clarke
Professional Standards in Paramedic Practicebased Learning: The role of the Practice Educator
Prof Eline Vanassche
Success or failure in teacher education: Moving beyond standards and the idea of (in)competent individual teacher educators
Dr Jo Finch
Challenges, Candour and Courageous Conversation – Supporting Struggling Students on Placement
A big thank you to the conference committee and support team
Lizana Oberholzer
Lizana Oberholzer is a Senior Lecturer in teacher education/ programme lead for the MA -Leadership in Education, at the Cass School of Education and Communities at the University of East London. She is passionate about teacher development and is the BERA SIG Convenor for Teacher Education in England, BELMAS RIG Convenor for Governance and Governing, WomenEd Regional Lead for London. Lizana is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the CMI Women in Management Steer Group, as well as a CMI Fellow, Chartered College of Teaching Founding Fellow and MAT Director. Lizana is one of the co-chairs of the IPDA Annual conference, and is a member of the IPDA England Group.
Marie Huxtable
Marie Huxtable is currently Editor of the Educational Journal of Living Theories, Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Cumbria, UK. She engages, as a global citizen, in professional educational practitioner self-study research in order to contribute to the growth of an educational knowledge-base which supports the evolution of an emancipating, inclusive and egalitarian world.
Dave Johnston
Dave Johnston is the Director of Professional Development at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) based out of the Bronx Zoo in NYC. He oversees all teacher and graduate education at WCS, including international partnerships in over 20 countries. He has presented his work at over a dozen national and international professional conferences and his work has won the Top Honors in Education award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. He holds a BA in Physical Anthropology from Penn State University and an M.Ed. in Science Education from City College of New York. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Teacher Education and Teacher Development at Montclair State University. His dissertation utilizes didactic transposition to examine professional development outcomes for informal STEM educators related to inquiry based instruction.
Gayle Le Moine
Gayle is a senior lecturer, programme director and placement lead for child nursing at Canterbury Christ Church University. Prior to joining the university Gayle was a band 6 paediatric sister on a general ward with expertise in acute and continuing illnesses in children. She has a keen interest in simulation and how this can be utilised to enhance clinical learning. Gayle is actively engaged in multi-professional working research.
Stuart Mitchell
Stuart Mitchell is Senior Lecturer and Post-Compulsory Education and Training Course Leader within the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University. Stuart is also Chair of the Faculty Academic Ethics Committee and is currently engaged in doctoral study, considering the impact of routine and disruption caused by policy-churn on the role of Initial Teacher Educators within the PCE sector. Formerly a lecturer at a number of Further Education colleges he has taught across a range of subject areas including Sociology, ESOL, Construction, ICT & Key Skills. Recent research projects have focused on international professional development within Vietnam and initial teacher training mentor support.
Sara Smith
Sara is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Science at the University of Nottingham where she is the Course Lead for the Foundation to Medicine Year. As a registered Biomedical Scientist her research focuses upon supporting the development of capability for practice and practitioner identify.
Lydia Kendall-McDougall
Lydia Kendall-McDougall is a MA English Literature student at the University of Leeds. She has previously spoken at the Media Education Summit in Rome in 2016, and has co-run the Youth Media Education Summit for the same conference in Boston and the Czech Republic.
Her research interests are situated in Posthumanist theory and literature, with a current focus on the relationship between new materialisms and cultural identity in South Asian fiction.
Netta Pickett
I have been the administrator for IPDA since November 2015. My working career began as a comptometer operator in 1970 for a company in Birmingham called Rapid Figurework. In 1986 I joined the City of Birmingham Polytechnic admin team. Due to restructuring of the University (now Birmingham City University) I made the difficult decision to retire from my role as personal assistant to the Associate Dean for Research and Business Development, Alex Kendall. I had previous involvement with IPDA through this role and was pleased to take on the role of IPDA administrator in my retirement. Organising the IPDA conference and meeting people from all over the world is something that I thoroughly enjoy.
Russell Goffe-Wood
Russell is a website designer and photographer and has been supporting IPDA for several years, managing the website and taking photographs and video at our events.
