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Assessing practical work in science

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Neil Wade Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) and Stella Paes Formerly AQA, give a seminar for the Department of Education seminar series.
This public seminar will be given by representatives from two awarding bodies for A-levels and GCSEs in England: OCR and AQA. Each will give their perspective on the following:
- the challenges of assessing practical work, - the opportunities afforded by the current system and some of the remaining difficulties, - how they would choose to assess practical work, and indeed assess science in general, if they could design an assessment system from scratch. This seminar arose from discussions at the Royal Society educational research
conference on Assessing experimental science in 11-18 education October 2016,
and will endeavour to engage with some of the principles and intellectual challenges of assessment, as well as the pragmatics. A response will be given by Dr Sean Page, Head of Science at Lord Williams’s School, Thame, Oxon.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
People
Stella Paes
Neil Wade
Keywords
education
teaching
exams
school
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 13/06/2017
Duration: 00:57:07

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OxPeace 2017: The Role of Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Building Peace

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Cultural heritage in peacebuilding
This presentation was given at the Conference Dinner on May 5, 2017

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
John Curtis
Keywords
Cultural Heritage
peacebuilding
positive peace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:36:50

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OxPeace 2017: Business: A Powerful Force for Supporting Interfaith Understanding and Peace

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Business, Peace and Interfaith Understanding; Concepts and Practice of Positive Peace: Overview of the Conference,
Business, Peace and Interfaith Understanding; Concepts and Practice of Positive Peace: Overview of the Conference,

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Brian Grim
Keywords
business
interfaith understanding
peacebuilding
oxpeace
positive peace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:29:02

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OxPeace 2017: Devolving Power to Citizens: A Path to Positive Peace in Colombia?

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Discussion on whether offline and online participatory budgeting processes could foster positive peace in Colombia and, if so, under what circumstances.
After fifty years of war, Colombia is about to start the implementation of an ambitious peace deal between the Government and the FARC-EP guerrilla. Participation is one of the most used words in the agreement between the parties, and peacebuilding in the local areas will depend on the active participation of citizens in more than forty participatory spaces featured in the final accord. One of them is participatory budgeting, which is a process that allows citizens of a locality to directly decide how to spend part of the local budget. Based on qualitative research, the presentation will discuss whether offline and online participatory budgeting processes could foster positive peace in Colombia and, if so, under what circumstances.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Diana Dajer
Keywords
positive peace
oxpeace
colombia
peacemaking
peacebuilding
civil war
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:21:07

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OxPeace 2017: ‘Peace doesn’t exist’: Marginalised youths’ disengagement from Colombia’s peace process threatens the achievement of a lasting peace

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Young participants from a conflict-affected town express their ideas about peace, which contrast starkly with the country’s dominant optimism.
In the aftermath of the ‘no’ victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements’ push for peace. Violent groups in Latin America are largely made up of male youths. In my documentary made during 9 months of fieldwork:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_BqPT9E-U), a short section of which will be shown, young participants from a conflict-affected town express their ideas about peace, which contrast starkly with the country’s dominant optimism. For them, the peace process is nothing more than corrupt politics. When they do talk of peace, they emphasise its domestic, inner and apolitical dimensions. More often, however, they simply believe that peace is not possible at all. The marginalisation of youths constitutes an enduring form of structural violence in Colombia’s post-conflict phase – one which should be urgently addressed through the lenses of social justice if Colombia’s peace is to last.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Elena Butti
Keywords
youth
peace process
colombia
civil war
positive peace
peace
oxpeace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:27:19

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OxPeace 2017: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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On peace-building in The Peace Community of San Joseì de Apartadó
The Peace Community of San Joseì de Apartadó is a peasant farmer community in Urabaì subregion who declared themselves 'neutral' to the Colombian armed conflict in 1997. One of the most emblematic victims’ groups in the country, they have been alternately glorified and condemned, but this paper, based on five years’ ethnographic work, shifts the human rights frame with which they have typically been viewed and proposes a gaze based on Galtung’s ‘positive peace’ concept, revealing two key narratives which co-exist in their collective identity: the radical narrative, according to which the Community interprets politics; and the organic narrative, the way in which they perceive their relationship to the environment and to their organisational process. These combine with the cultural practice of production of cacao (cocoa) and produce a concept of alternative community.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Gwen Burnyeat
Keywords
chocolate
politics
peacebuilding
ethnography
peace
positive peace
oxpeace
colombia
civil war
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:28:37

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OxPeace 2017: Sovereign Terrain? Explosive Remnants of War

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Outline some of the conceptual and practical difficulties regarding the clearance of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and reflect on the implications for states and populations in transformation.
Fifteen to thirty percent (15-30%) of armaments fail to function when deployed: these include missiles, rockets, shells, mines, bomblets and carrier munitions. Direct violence does not fully cease - and, perhaps, conflict transformation cannot truly begin - until the explosive remnants of war (ERW) are cleared away. ERW may problematise a nascent state's monopoly on violence. ERW are commonly associated with Cambodia, Laos, Angola, Mozambique and Bosnia-Herzegovina; it somehow escapes attention that countries such as France (1st World War) and the UK (the Blitz, Falkland Islands) also possess enduring ERW problems. In this talk I will outline some of the conceptual and practical difficulties regarding the clearance of ERW and reflect on the implications for states and populations in transformation. Examples will be drawn from many different sites ofconflict in the last 100 years.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Rupert Burridge
Keywords
explosive remnants
landmines
explosives
oxpeace
terrain
war
positive peace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:19:12

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OxPeace 2017: What prospects for restoring cultural heritage in Iraq?

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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John Curtis will describe the destruction of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Iraq, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1991 and continuing to the ravages of ISIS in 2014-2017.
John Curtis will describe the destruction of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Iraq, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1991 and continuing to the ravages of ISIS in 2014-2017. He will review the mostly unsuccessful attempts to protect that cultural heritage, and examine what prospects there might be for rebuilding it, particularly after the defeat of ISIS in the north. Lastly, he will consider what implications this has for a lasting peace in Iraq and for the future of the Iraqi state.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
John Curtis
Keywords
Cultural Heritage
iraq
restoration
positive peace
oxpeace
peacebuilding
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:16:07

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OxPeace 2017: Extremists' - and Others' - Conceptions of Peace

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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This talk uses first person interviews to present the on-the-ground attitudes to peace in post-ISIS Iraq.
The international community, led by America, regularly proclaims a commitment to the integrity of Iraq, a country bitterly and often violently divided along sectarian-ethnic lines (Arab Sunni, Arab Shia and Kurdish). This talk uses first person interviews to present the on-the-ground attitudes to peace in post-ISIS Iraq, after first sketching the post-invasion events which led to the seeming stalemate we are seeing today. Interviews with soldiers on the frontline with ISIS, Kurdish political, military and intelligence leadership, and civilians in the cities all point to a desire for complete Kurdish independence, but also show sharp divisions even within this group. Interviews with Sunnis fighting both for and against ISIS and also with Sunni civilian refugees fleeing ISIS show a bitterness with the status quo which points to a future cycle of violence. Improvements require action from the central government in Baghdad, which in the current climate are difficult to imagine. Possible actions from all groups will be considered with an eye to what has failed in the past 14 years to build a stable, flourishing Iraq.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Lydia Wilson
Keywords
extremists
Extremism
positive peace
oxpeace
iraq
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:25:06

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OxPeace 2017: The role of formal and non-formal education for youth agency for peace: A synthesis report on findings from Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Empirical insights from four country studies (Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda) on the topic of youth agency for peacebuilding.
I am presenting empirical insights from four country studies (Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda) on the topic of youth agency for peacebuilding, and the role of non-formal and formal education in fostering or hindering such spaces. I reflect on the processes of knowledge generation about youth peacebuilding agency across diverse conflict-affected contexts, through a ‘critical cultural political economy of education’ approach that explores young people’s agency and empowerment. The report analyses youth agency for peacebuilding, through studying: 1) political agency (representation); 2) economic/sustainable livelihoods (redistribution); 3) socio-cultural relations/identity formation (recognition); and 4) dealing with the past and building trust (reconciliation). The report highlights the importance of the voices, This requires a context-specific, conflict-sensitive and cultural political economy understanding of the challenges and opportunities that various youth constituencies are faced with, and how education initiatives (fail to) respond to this.

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Series
Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Mieke Lopes Cardozo
Keywords
youth
education
oxpeace
positive peace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 12/06/2017
Duration: 00:20:41

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