First BERA conference

The first BERA conference, including a session to discuss the constitution

This is the original agenda:
BERA Conference 1974 - Birmingham University
Friday 5th April
11.00 Planning committee meeting
12.00 – 13.00 Assemble. Bar open.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Introductory plenary session (E Stones, University of Liverpool) 14.30 – 16.00 Parallel discussions
Politics and the financing of research in education (Prof M Kogan, Brunel University) Problems of methodology in educational research, John Bynner , Open University) Educational research and its audience (G Chanan, NfER)
16.00 Tea. Discussions continued. 17.30 Plenary session
Inaugural address – Educational research; the state of the art (Prof John Nisbet, University of Aberdeen)
18.30 Bar open
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Constitutional committee in session for informal discussion of constitution
Saturday 6th April
9.00 – 12.00 (Coffee available at 10.30)
Seminar One Problems of research in classroom studies
1. Systematic observation in naturalistic research (D McIntyre, University of Stirling)
2. A brief note on symbolic interactionist perspective on classroom studies (D Hargreaves,
University of Manchester)
3. Implications of linguistics for classroom studies (N Maynard, Dundee College of education)
4. Controlled studies in classrooms (G McLeod, University of Stirling)
Seminar Two Problems of evaluation
1. Changing strategies for curriculum evaluation (W Harlen, University of Reading)
2. Evaluating teaching: a missing element within contemporary paradigms of curriculum
evaluation (R Whitfield, University of Cambridge)
3. Selecting criteria for curriculum evaluation (L. Orr, NfER)
4. The end(s) of evaluation (D Hamilton, University of Glasgow) 12.00 Bar open
12.15 Lunch
13.30 Inaugural meeting of BERA 15.00 Tea and disperse