Week of April 29, 2012 to May 5, 2012

1. Monday, April 30, 2012

   1. 2:00 pm

      Jia Chen

      
      DISSERTATION: How Can One be Perfected by Music?--Contemporary Educational Significance of Chinese Pre-Qin Confucian Thoughts on Yue Jia (Music Education)
      

      398 Education Building

2. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

   1. 11:00 am - 12:30 pmMolly Delaney and Evangeline Pianfetti
      TRANSFORMATIONS: PBS LearningMedia: Empowering Teachers Through Technology
      10 Education, 1310 S 6th St, Champaign
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmINFORMATIONAL MEETING: Undergraduate Transfer into the College of Education
      

      210A Education Building, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL

3. Thursday, May 3, 2012

   1. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmKeynote Speaker: Prof. Toms Jimnez, Stanford University
      CONFERENCE: Responding to Immigrants: Bridging Research and Practice to Meet the Needs of Immigrants in New Growth Communities
      I-Hotel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   2. 10:00 am

      Lavern Byfield

      
      DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Teachers' Perceptions of Bilingualism and Bidialectalism: The Effect on Language Arts Pedagogy
      

      398 Education Building
   3. 12:00 pmSEMINAR: STEM Education Research Collaborative: Beyond IES & NSF--Other Funding for STEM Education Research
      Room 28, Education Building
   4. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmSPRING FACULTY MEETING
      

      Heritage/Spitze Room, ACES Library

4. Friday, May 4, 2012

   1. 10:00 am

      Hao Chen

      
      DISSERTATION DEFENSE: The Heritage Language Education of an Indigenous Group in Taiwan: An Ethnographic Study of Atayals in an Elementary School
      

      398 Education Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

      Professor Helen Neville, Hardie Faculty Fellow

      
      SEMINAR: Transnational Black Racial Identities: Exploration of Belongingness among Indigenous Australians
      

      242 Education Building
   3. 1:00 pmDr. Saundra Murray Nettles, Author and Independent Scholar / Consultant
      JOB TALK: EPSY Faculty Candidate: Dr. Saundra Murray Nettles
      210A Education Building