Manchester Roundtable
on the role of emotions and agency in teaching and beyond
23 - 25 May 2018
The speakers
Anne Edwards
Professor Emerita in the Department of Education, Oxford University, a co-founder with Geoff Hayward of OSAT (the Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research), is a founding editor of Learning Culture and Social Interaction and remains a member of its editorial board. In her recent edited book with Cambridge University Press 'Working relationally in and across practices' (Cambridge, 2017) contributors discuss how they worked with her concepts of relational expertise, common knowledge and relational agency in a range of settings.
Paula R. Golombek
Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics University of Florida, an author of ‘Mindful L2 Teacher Education’ book published by Routledge in 2016.
Anna Stetsenko
Professor in the PhD Programs in Psychology and in Urban Education at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She came to CUNY with years of experience in a number of leading research centers and universities in Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Russia). With her interdisciplinary expertise in psychology, philosophy, human development, and education combined with an international background, her writing cuts across many fields and connects cutting-edge developments and insights from a variety of frameworks. She is widely published in several languages and her recent book is The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education (Cambridge University Press, 2016).