Important Dates

Submission of abstracts : 31 January 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 February 2010
Submission of full papers : 30 April 2010
Pre-Conference Workshop:
Designing Courses for Outcome-based Education:
An Integrated Design Approach 1 - 2 June 2010
(Kuala Lumpur)
Post-Conference Workshop:
Assessing Students’ Learning Outcomes 10 June 2010
(Kuching, Sarawak)
Conference Date : 7 - 9 June 2010

http://seminar.spaceutm.edu.my/rceerhed2010/

The WCCES 14th World Congress will be held at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey from 14-19 June 2010.

The theme is "Bordering, Re-Bordering and New Possibilities for Change in Education and Society".

CALL FOR PAPERS
XIV WORLD CONGRESS
WORLD COUNCIL OF COMPARATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETIES (WCCES)
‘Border’ is a key concept for analyzing the relationship between education and society at all levels. Borders can be national, regional, social or psychic; they can be fixed or shifting. Borders and ‘lines’ can be material (walls), psychological (in peoples’ minds) or metaphorical (the ‘glass ceiling’ for women’s careers). Discussions of borders are part of discussions of space, and of space-time.

‘Space’ can be absolute/concrete/fixed/measurable (rooms, properties, cities, territories) but also relative (flows and exchanges of energy, peoples, money and information in space and time); and relational (linked to how people operate together in or across these spaces). Space is something produced by human activity and in turn conditions it.

Educational space is where ‘difference’ is conceived, reproduced or contested. Our interests would be the linkages between material space (institutional buildings, camps), representations of space (maps and organizational charts as well as metaphors) and spaces of representation, (the lived or experienced space, our feelings and emotions, our senses of security or insecurity). Spaces are made in the living of our lives, and since they are always being made, the possibility remains for them to be made differently. ‘Border-crossers’, physically and psychologically, can defy or challenge structures, and can reclaim power or identity.

The production and control of space and borders is always tied up with questions of power and politics; and also with the production of inequality. Spaces and their uses can be classed, gendered, racialised, and sexualized. The production of space is also therefore linked to the production of identities, to spaces for assembly, or to keeping ‘others’ in their place, materially or symbolically – whether ‘members of the nation-state’, ‘believers’ or ‘the disabled’. Our educational concerns therefore link to inclusion and exclusion.

Rebordering is an aspect of globalization, and it is thought that all themes would have globalization as a backdrop if not a direct concern, and as an opportunity as well as a threat. There would be concerns about responsibility across and within borders (for climate change, arms trade, movements of peoples). But also the concerns are about borders in terms of social divisions, the invisible and visible lines between groups, and how education can challenge those borders which deny freedoms, rights and capabilities. Then, what are the educational spaces for contestation of inequality, for interruption?

THEMATIC GROUPS
The conference includes the following 14 groups which will address the issues of bordering in an international perspective from their specific thematic vantage point.
The Thematic Groups of the Conference are:

1.Educational Governance, Policy Within and Across Borders
2.Comparative Education: Rethinking Theory and Method
3.Education, Conflict and Transitions Within and Between Societies
4.Demystifying Quality in Education
5.Re-imagining Curriculum
6.Critical Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development
7.Identity, Space and Diversity in Education
8.Education, Human and Social Development, and Capabilities
9.New Technologies and Accessibility to Learning
10.Education and Children's Rights in a "Globalized" World
11.Education, Politics of Dominance, the Suppressed and Disappearing Languages
12.Privatization and Marketization in Education
13.Education, Migration, Citizenship and the State
14.Cross-Thematic Groups (Special Interest Groups / Special Workshops / Symposia / Round table)

We welcome theoretical and/or empirical papers that address the issues from different thematic group perspectives. We encourage papers based on national and/or comparative research and which draw on a range of viewpoints. In particular we look forward to papers from different groups and individuals, NGOs, regional or national institutions, bilateral or multilateral organizations, and financing agencies.

ORGANIZERS
Turkish Comparative Education Society - TUKED
World Council of Comparative Education Societies - WCCES
Boğaziçi University, Department of Educational Sciences - B.U.

Contact Information

Email:

Homepage: http://www.wcces2010.org

Deadline for Submission of Abstract: 15th January 2010

The Malaysian Postgraduates’ Council of London, UK (MPGC-London) in partnership with the University College London, UK (UCL) is proud to present the second United Kingdom - Malaysia Engineering Conference 2010 at the University College London, UK.
The conference is supported by Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia-MOHE) and Malaysian Students Depatment for United Kingdom and Eire.


8th and 9th April 2010
Technological Symbiosis for Sustainable Cooperations
ADVANCING AND SYNERGIZING ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT
Currently, our world continues to face technological, environmental and energy related problems. How is Engineering and Technology responding to the needs of our society and the world? Is there a need for a concerted effort? Advancing and synergizing engineering development, Technological Symbiosis for Sustainable Cooperation will be the theme for an exhilarating and thought provoking days of presentations and discussions to be participated by academics and professionals from the UK and Malaysia at the University College London

The UK-MEC 2010 Conference us soliciting manuscripts and posters which address the various challenges and paradigms in this technological world through research and development activities in Engineering and Technology.



UK-MEC 2010

E&PDE2010-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway

Dear Aede Hatib Musta'amal,

The 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
will be organised by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
in Trondheim, Norway in partnership with the Design Education Special Interest
Group (DESIG) of the Design Society and the Institution of Engineering
Designers (IED). The conference in 2010 will address the relationship between
design education and design research.

This year's conference theme, "When Design Education and Design Research meet
. . . . " aims to provide a platform for participants to explore how
scientific research and education within the engineering and product design
arena do, can or should strengthen each other. This theme has been chosen as
it has remained relatively unexplored in previous years' conferences; yet,
design research has, especially in the past decade, grown to become a mature
scientific discipline.

Conference topics include:

- Industrial relevance of design education
- Research-based education
- International collaboration
- Creating scientific attitudes among design students
- Linking Bachelor, Master and PhD level education
- New design education paradigms
- Synergies between engineering and product design education
- Teaching Design Methodology
- Best practices in design education
- Scientific methods for course evaluation
- Professional perspectives for design students
- The role of design within a technical university environment
- Technology transfer through design

The Call for Abstracts is NOW OPEN. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should
be submitted through the Conference Management System at
https://www.conftool.net/epde10/ by 4th December 2009.

For full information please see http://www.iepde.org/epde10/

Yours sincerely

E&PDE 2010 Organisers

2009 International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

Creative Behaviours Observed in 2D and 3D Sketch Modelling and CAD Modelling
Aede H Musta'amal, Dr Eddie Norman,and Tony Hodgson

Abstract:

At E&PDE08, the authors presented a paper that demonstrated links between the use of computer-aided design (CAD) when designing and a ‘creative behaviours model’ derived from published research into creativity; primarily from researchers in the field of cognitive psychology. From a series of data collection approaches e.g. observations, protocol analysis, and design diaries, designers were found to display a number of creative behaviours whilst using CAD in designing [1]. Inevitably a key question arises as to how such creative behaviours relate to the behaviours observed when designers use other designing tools such as 2D and 3D sketch modelling. This paper will report the authors’ initial research concerning this parallel agenda.
Literature reviews have been undertaken of reported categories of behaviours observed when 2D and 3D sketch modelling and a sample design project has been carried out. This provided data for an initial comparative analysis with the ‘creative behaviours model’ previously used in analysing CAD modelling. Again protocol analysis and design diaries were employed to record behaviours from 2D and 3D sketch modelling, and CAD modelling activities.
The design project has confirmed the emergence of most of the behaviours reported in the literature in relation to 2D and 3D sketch modelling. As 2D and 3D sketch modelling are accepted as creative activities when designing, there would be every expectation of correlation between the behaviours observed when undertaking these activities and the creative behaviours model derived from cognitive psychology. An analysis of the research results has been undertaken to reveal such correlations, as well as apparent differences.

D&T Education: an International Journal 2009

Gathering Empirical Evidence Concerning Links Between Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Creativity
Aede Hatib Musta'amal, Dr Eddie Norman, Tony Hodgson

Design and Technology Education: an International Journal, Vol 14, No 2 (2009)
PDF Url:http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/DATE/article/view/249

Abstract

Discussion is often reported concerning potential links
between computer-aided designing and creativity, but
there is a lack of systematic enquiry to gather empirical
evidence concerning such links. This paper reports an
indication of findings from other research studies carried
out in contexts beyond general education that have sought
evidence relating CAD and creativity. It describes the
establishment of a framework for gathering empirical
evidence to support the analysis of links between CAD
and creativity, via the observation of creative behaviours,
which was developed from published literature largely
relating to the area of cognitive psychology. It notes some
initial research findings concerning the use of this
framework in analysing the use of CAD in postgraduate
design projects completed at Loughborough University.
These results demonstrate the occurrence of creative
behaviours in association with the use of CAD when
designing. Finally the significance of these results is
discussed within the wider context of design modelling.

Review : Educational design research

Book Review in Design and Technology Education: an International Journal, Vol 13, No 2 (2008)

Title: Educational design research
Author/Editor: Jan Van Den Akker, Koeno Gravemeijer, Susan McKenney and Nienke Nieveen
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Reviewed by: Aede Hatib Musta’amal, University Technology of Malaysia
ISBN: 0-415-39635-2

url:http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/DATE/article/view/Journal_13.2_REV2

2009 Education & International Research Conference

Paper: Observing Creative Behaviours
Authors: Aede H Musta'amal, Dr Eddie Norman, Tony Hodgson
Organiser: DATA UK and Loughborough University

2008 International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

Links between CAD and Creativity: Reality or Myth
Aede H Musta'amal, Dr Eddie Norman, and Tony Hodgson
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education 4-5 September 2008 at Universitat Poletecnica de Catalunya E.T.S.E.I.B., Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

Theme: New Perspectives in Design Education

2008 International and Education Research Conference

CAD as a 'recording' or 'designing' tool: Evidence from user behaviours







2-4 July 2008
Loughborough University

Organised by DATA and Loughborough University

Abstract:

Previously published research has explored the implications of using CAD for the quality of design development, and the quality of design outcomes (Fraser & Hodgson, 2007; Hodgson & Fraser, 2006; Hodgson & Fraser, 2005; Kimbell et al, 2002). Prior study has also revealed, that users’ perceptions affect how CAD is applied, and reflect the benefits received from such use (Robertson & Allen, 1991).

In order to link creativity to the use of CAD, a literature review concerning behaviours associated with creativity was conducted. This was discussed in a PowerPoint presentation presented at the 2007 Design and Technology Association International Research Conference. A framework of 7 groups of creative behaviour were identified, particularly ‘Novelty’, ‘Appropriateness’, ‘Motivation’, ‘Fluency’, ‘Flexibility’, ’Sensitivity’, and ‘Insightfulness’.

Evidence for these behaviours when using CAD was sought by a number of research methods such as interviews, protocol analysis, observations, and design diaries. This paper is reporting part of an initial study undertaken to research the implications of using CAD for creativity in designing. A small-scale case study exploration based on the masters projects by 4 postgraduate students from the Design and Technology Department at Loughborough University has been carried out.

The results from the current research showed that the use of CAD in designing was linked to design behaviours associated with creativity in the literature.

Keywords

Computer-aided Design (CAD), creative behaviour, observations, protocol analysis

For those who interested, the paper could be retrieved online from the Loughborough University Repository http://hdl.handle.net/2134/3496

2007 Education and International Research Conference

The first conference attended in my PhD study. It is a powerpoint presentation to introduce my research topic and the initial concept of Creative behaviours model.

Presented at






2007 Education and International Research Conference
Linking Learning, 4-6 July 2007
University of Wolverhampton
UK

Organised by Design and Technology Association (DATA) and University of Wolverhampton

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