Clores Presented Papers in the
Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference 2009

Dr. Michael A. Clores, Program Director for the Natural Sciences and Associate Professor of the Department of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department, presented four (4) papers in the Redesigning Pedagogy: International Conference 2009: Designing New Learning Contexts for a Globalising World last 1-3 June at the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

With over 1,100 attendees, including 160 overseas participants from 25 countries, the conference was an international platform for presentation and engagement in leading-edge research and was important in building individual and institutional partnerships. It provided a forum wherein the key topics in education in the context of emergent knowledge economies, the central role of high quality education in building progressive societies, research addressed to problems confronted policymakers, educators and practitioners were discussed and deliberated.

Two of the papers Dr. Clores presented in the conference were based on the school absenteeism research funded by the University Research Council (URC) of Ateneo de Naga University: (i) School Absenteeism: The Case of Filipino Tertiary Students, and Phenomenological Exploration of School Absenteeism. The other two papers he presented focused on his study of at-risk students:  A Grounded Theory Research on Optimizing the Student Benefit from the SRA in Reading Program for University Students, and a secondary analysis of his dissertation: Changing Students’ Beliefs and Concepts about the Evolutionary Theory Using Pedagogy Based on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS).