SMEC

Programme 2008

 

Thursday 11.09.08

Venue

 

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