New Teacher Training Book To Be Published
University of Hertfordshire staff members will be featuring in a range of publications released throughout the year.
A new book edited by Elizabeth White and Joy Jarvis - School-based Teacher Training: A Handbook for Tutors and Mentors - is to be published by Sage in December 2012.
Professor Helen Payne has been invited to act as editor for the Routledge International Handbook on Dance Movement Therapy and to contribute a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing, to be published by Oxford University Press, on ‘The BodyMind Approach: Using dance and group facilitation to support patients with medically unexplained symptoms at the interface between primary and a community health care’.
Helen has a ‘spin out’ company which will be called 'Pathways2Wellbeing' and will deliver The BodyMind Approach (TBMA) programmes for patients with psychosomatic/medically unexplained symptoms in the NHS and occupational health and privately.
Her next invited presentation is a workshop in September 2012 at the European Body Psychotherapy Conference, Cambridge on 'TBMA: Its application in the NHS' and a research forum entitled 'From Practitioner to Practitioner-Researcher' which stresses evidenced-based research.
Helen will also be presenting in June 2012 at the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Annual Research Conference, Regents College, on: 'The BodyMind Approach (TBMA): Embedding research outcomes of an embodied, expressive group learning process into practice in primary care’.
Professor Philip Woods, following his keynote - on the theme of his latest book, ‘Transforming Education Policy: Shaping a democratic policy’ - to a conference of the German Society of Educational Science on ‘Organisation and Participation’ in March 2012, has been asked to contribute a chapter for a book on Organisation und Partizipation: Beiträge der Kommission Organisationspädagogik edited by the conference organisers.
The chapter is entitled ‘Drivers to Holistic Democracy: Signs and signals of emergent, democratic self-organising systems’.
He has also been invited to speak at the Festival of Education at Wellington College in June 2012, and later that month will present a keynote talk at an event in Berlin on ‘Structuring and Culturing Schools for Comprehensive Learning’ organised by the European Policy Network on School Leadership.
In July 2012, Philip will be giving a keynote introduction at the ‘Mainstreaming Co-operation Conference’ taking place in Manchester and running a day-long professional development session in Poland for school leaders throughout Europe on democratic leadership and holistic democracy.
Oscar Odena’s edited volume - ‘Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research’ , published in 2012 - presents new research on how musical creativity is developed and nurtured in collaborative improvisation, and how it is used as a communicative tool in music therapy. Contributors comprise an international team of experts from the fields of music education, music psychology and music therapy.