ICIRE 2010

Clearly, a positive teacher-student relationship strongly contributes to student learning. Educators, parents and students understand that problematic relationships can be detrimental to student outcomes and development. Productive learning environments are characterized by supportive and warm interactions throughout the class: teacher-student and student-student. Similarly, teacher learning thrives when principals facilitate accommodating and safe school cultures.

A variety of research perspectives help explain how these constructive learning environment relationships can be developed and sustained. Contributions have come from educational and social psychology, teacher and school effectiveness research, and communication and language studies, among other fields. Recently, developments such as dynamic system theories have added often-spectacular directions to the topic.

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15/5/2010 - The PowerPoints of the four keynotes are availabale in pdf format. They can be downlaoded from the keynotes page.
29/4/2010 - The best paper award was granted to Marie-Christine Opdenakker and Ridwan Maulana for their paper Teacher-student reltaionships and academic engagement: How do they develop and link?
29/4/2010 - The best poster award was granted to Michael Dyson and Margaret Plunket for their poster Building positive relationships through an alternate educational setting: an Australian case study.

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While the importance of interpersonal relationships in education has been appreciated for decades, research in this field is still young, with an increasing number of studies appearing in journals and books. Therefore, it is an appropriate time to celebrate, evaluate and advance these efforts through a conference that focuses on the state of the field and avenues for future research: the ICIRE 2010.

This conference brings together researchers, teacher educators and others interested in interpersonal relationships in education. Scholarly papers will be presented in terms of two main elements that frame interpersonal relationships in education:

An analysis of the communication process.
An example of research in this area might be an examination of dynamic systems theory.
The study of interpersonal perceptions.
Research that represents a variety of domains, such as learning environments research, educational psychology, and/or research on school/teacher effectiveness.

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