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Teachers' professional development on summative assessment of practical science: perspectives from Project Calibrate

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science.
Project Calibrate addresses a systematic approach to improving practical science at GCSE level. It is a joint project with researchers from Oxford University, AQA and Key Stage 4 teachers and students. This project is striving for curriculum innovation that couples the design of novel assessments, accompanied by teacher engagement to ensure effective implementation of curricular goals worth teaching. This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science which aims to result in a more coherent understanding of how science works.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Sibel Erduran
Ann Childs
Alison Cullinane
Keywords
science
learning
practical
teaching
development
assessment
GCSE
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 28/01/2019
Duration: 00:41:26

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Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary.

Mike Clarke and Iain Chalmers [1], Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library and Fellow of CEBM), Carl Heneghan ( Professor of EBM and Director CEBM) and Kamal Mahtani (Associate Professor and Director of the MSc in Systematic Reviews) talk about the history and development of systematic reviews, their current delivery and the shortcomings in current review production and the future directions of systematic reviews, including the launch of CEBM's Evidence Synthesis Toolkit.

This talk was held as part of the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care course which is part of the Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.
[1] Clarke M, Chalmers I Reflections on the history of systematic reviews. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2018;23:121-122.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Iain Chalmers
Carl Heneghan
Kamal Mahtani
Keywords
EBM
evidence based medicine
primary health care
Health Sciences
EBHC
Evidence-Based Health Care
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 28/01/2019
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The Legal Metamorphosis of War

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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War does not escape the transformations global governance has experienced in the past decades.
The research presented identifies a move from a binary War-Peace framework to a global security governance, characterized by techno-managerial normative assemblages aiming at taming risk.Core to the project of international law throughout the 20th century, peace has been occupying a central role in the development of international legal regimes aiming at governing armed violence. But the promise of peace is being increasingly sided by an adjacent, concurrent project, one that promises a more secure world, where risks are forecasted and mitigated or are at least measured. Global security aims at preventing violence and conflict together with health, financial and environmental crises that are predicted and mapped to be better managed. Lists, corporate social responsibility instruments, indicators, ratings and algorithmic devices – the instruments that regulate global security – are produced by means of a technical expertise, resting on a mathematical and behaviorist rationality aiming at taming risk. International legal categories and distinctions do not disappear but are transformed. War and peace are being reimagined and placed on a spectrum of measurable violence and insecurity, combatant and civilian categories are fragmented and made increasingly dependent on more contained behavioral patterns.

Dr Delphine Dogot’s research is at the intersection of law, philosophy and social sciences in particular in relation to globalization and technology. She is a Research Fellow at the Law Department of HEC Paris where she develops several research projects investigating the transformation of law and regulation when embedded with algorithmic and data-driven technologies.

Delphine Dogot holds a Ph.D. in Law from Sciences Po, a Master's and Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, as well as Master's degree in Sociology and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne. She has previously been Exchange Researcher at Harvard Law School, Fellow at the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (ULB), and OXPO Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Delphine writes in transnational legal theory, international and global law, conflict and security law and law and technology. She has taught or is currently teaching courses on company law, contract law, global law, international law, philosophy and theory of human rights, legal theory & methodology and at ULB, Sciences Po, HEC Paris, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Faculté Libre de Droit de Lille.

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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Delphine Dogot
Keywords
war
public international law
armed violence
regimes
international
Global Governance
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 25/01/2019
Duration: 00:46:20

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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.
The panel of guests will consider the origins and the uses of myth-making as a literary genre, the motivation which lay behind Tolkien's own myth creation, and the rise in fantasy literature during his lifetime.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Marina Warner
Verlyn Flieger
Dimitra Fimi
Keywords
literature
Tolkien exhibition
tolkien
history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 25/01/2019
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What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau

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African Studies Centre
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ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo

Abstract: This talk presents a critique of aid discourses of success and failure as the basis for intervention in Africa, using Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau as case studies. By questioning why such discourses emerge, how they evolve and what their implications are, I seek to contribute to constructivist theories of international relations and development, whilst also offering an analysis of how this instrument of global governance has played out in the two countries.

Short bio: Teresa Almeida Cravo is currently a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, working on a book manuscript on the politics of discourse in the context of western donors' relations with specific African countries. She is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies.

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African Studies Centre
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Teresa Almeida Cravo
Keywords
mozambique
Africa
GUINEA-BISSAU
development
donors
post-structuralism
construction
discourse
Department: Centre for African Studies
Date Added: 25/01/2019
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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE: Women in STEM or how to stop killer robots.

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Mansfield College
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Co-founder of STEMettes and one of the BBC's 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017.
Co-founder of STEMettes and one of the BBC's 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017.

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Mansfield College
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Anne-Marie Imafidon
Keywords
STEM
stemettes
killer robots
Mansfield College
lecture series
anne-marie Imafidon
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 25/01/2019
Duration: 00:38:56

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Student activism in an era of decolonization

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African Studies Centre
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ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck.

Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck launch the Africa special issue: Student activism in an era of decolonization.

'The articles collected in this special issue, and first presented at a workshop entitled 'Student Activism Reconsidered' at the University of Oxford in July 2016, seek to develop understandings of African student activism during this critical period by revisiting postcolonial Africa's first student protests and experiences of university life. Many of the debates that these students initiated on campus would come, in subsequent decades, to be rearticulated on the national political stage through former students who went into prominent public positions or who set up or entered governing or opposition parties. As such, appreciating the ideas, behaviours and dreams that these people adopted during their university experiences can provide important insights into how they responded, as professionals and political leaders, to the challenges of economic crisis, structural adjustment and increasingly repressive authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.'

Please note that, because of recording difficulties, the final portion of the seminar (by Marcia Schenck) is not included in this podcast. The full journal issue is available here (and Hodgkinson and Melchiorre's introduction is open access): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/issue/450ED9F309972E6B034AEB155590EA9A.

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African Studies Centre
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Dan Hodgkinson
Luke Melchiorre
Marcia Schenck
Keywords
Africa
activism
decolonization
student
university
protest
Department: Centre for African Studies
Date Added: 24/01/2019
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Good words: for profit or for pleasure?

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Hensley Henson Lectures 2019 Art, Craft and Theology: Making Good Words
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First lecture in the 2019 Hensley Henson lecture series. With Prof Morwenna Ludlow, The University of Exeter.

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Hensley Henson Lectures 2019 Art, Craft and Theology: Making Good Words
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Morwenna Ludlow
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religion
theology
christianity
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 24/01/2019
Duration: 00:48:45

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Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan

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Israel Studies Seminar
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Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives.
The deceits and deficiencies of the workings of sovereignty have received noticeable attention among generations of writers in Israel/Palestine. However, the sovereignty of sovereignty itself as a reigning paradigm in the Western tradition of political thought remains unduly recognized. Taking this insufficient attention as an initial assumption, in this paper I focus on a dissociable property of modern sovereignty as formulated by its founding celebrants Hobbes and Rousseau: the molecular principle of indivisibility. I argue that in sovereignty regimes, there is an inherent denial of the possibility of human self-oppression—a denial that attenuates ethical orientations to fragility, finitude, and revelation—to deleterious effects.
From a Palestinian standpoint within a dissolving Middle East, I hold that an immanent task for critiquing sovereignty remains and requires something greater than promoting its equitable performance in the region’s complex of nation-states. A Palestinian contestation of the grip of sovereignty over the modern political imagination could draw resources from the Palestinian experience and from the past and present of the Muslim tradition, to generate possibilities for restoring humility to governances and inducing a more genuine flourishing of persons, polities, and the planet.

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Israel Studies Seminar
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Khaled Furani
Keywords
palestine
Israel
sovereignty
Department: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS)
Date Added: 23/01/2019
Duration: 00:44:58

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Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Much is written about life as an undergraduate at Oxford but what is it really like?
As Oxford Mathematics's new first-year students arrive (273 of them, comprising 33 nationalities) we thought we would take the opportunity to go behind the scenes and share some of their experiences.

Our starting point is a first week lecture. In this case the second lecture from 'An Introduction to Complex Numbers' by Dr. Vicky Neale. Whether you are a past student, an aspiring student or just curious as to how teaching works, come and take a seat.

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Vicky Neale
Keywords
mathematics
complex numbers
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 22/01/2019
Duration: 00:50:04

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