SMEC
Programme 2008
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Thursday 11.09.08 |
Venue |
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Friday 12.09.08 |
Venue |
| 8.30 | Registration | Nursing Foyer | 9.00 | Registration | Nursing Foyer |
| 9.30 | Opening Ceremony Pauric Travers President of SPD Odilla Finlayson, SMEC08 Conference Chair |
HG22 | 9.30 | Jenifer Burden, Twenty First Century Science, UK |
HG22 |
| 10.00 | Uri Zoller, Haifa Universit, Israel |
HG22 | 10.30 | Oral Presentations D.1, E.1 & F.1 |
HG17/18/19 |
| 11.00 | COFFEE | Nursing Foyer |
10.50 | COFFEE | Nursing Foyer |
| 11.30 | Norman Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA |
HG22 | 11.30 | Oral Presentations D.2, E.2 & F.2 |
HG17/18/19 |
| 12.30 | LUNCH And Poster presentation setup |
Restaurant | 11.50 | Oral Presentations D.3, E.3 & F.3 |
HG17/18/19 |
| 14.00 | David Treagust, Curtin University, Australia |
HG22 | 12.15 | LUNCH | Restaurant |
| 15.00 | COFFEE BREAK | Nursing Foyer | 13.30 | Doris Jorde, University of Oslo, Norway |
HG22 |
| 15.30 | Oral Presentations A.1, B.1 & C.1 |
HG17/18/19 | 14.30 | Interim closing remarks Eilish McLoughlin, CASTeL |
HG22 |
| 15.50 | Oral Presentations A.2, B.2 & C.2 |
HG17/18/19 | 15.30 | Depart for Dunsink | DUNSINK |
| 16.10 | Oral Presentations A.3, B.3 & C.3 |
HG17/18/19 | 16.30 | Niall Smith BCO, Ireland |
DUNSINK |
| 17.00 | Poster presentation & wine reception |
Nursing Foyer | 18.00 | Talk on Dunsink | DUNSINK |
| 19.00 | Conference dinner | 1838 Club | 19.00 | Dinner & close of SMEC08 | DUNSINK |
| 22.30 | Depart Dunsink for DCU | DUNSINK |
CONFERENCE THEMES:
Papers are invited which relate to any such issues, but in particular those which will focus on:
- Breadth versus depth in science curricula
- Transfer of knowledge & skills between disciplines
- Interdisciplinarity & multidisciplinarity
- Subsidiary subjects in science
- Implications for teacher education








