CREEW'S News
August 2004
Hello everyone
Welcome back to the second semester and the home run to Christmas! It continues to be cold and wet in Adelaide, but some CREEW members have returned from sunnier climes. More from CREEW members below ...
- Research News
- Publications
- Conferences
- Professional Service
- Seminar Series
- Postgraduate News
- HRISS Update
- Centre News
- Future CREEW's News
Research News
- Alan Reid is a member of a 9 person research team, led by Rob Hattam, that won an ARC Linkage Grant ($363,000 over 4 years), Reinvigorating middle years pedagogy.
Publications
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Harris, R, Simons, M & Carden, P (2004) Peripheral journeys: Probationary constables, learning and acceptance in an Australian police service, Journal of Workplace Learning, vol. 16, no. 4, May, pp.205-218. For more information click here.
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Poell, R, Van der Krogt, F J, Vermulst, A A, Harris, R & Simons, M (2004) The role of workplace trainers in increasing learning opportunities in the workplace: Empirical evidence from Australian companies, Human Resource Development Quarterly (USA) (forthcoming).
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Price, K, Alde, P, Provis, C, Harris, R & Stack, S (2004) What hinders and what helps: Searching for solutions to mature aged unemployment and the residential aged care workforce crisis, Australasian Journal on Ageing, December (forthcoming)
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Price, K, Alde, P, Provis, C, Stack, S & Harris R (2004) Submission (written and public) to the House of Representatives Standing Committee Employment and Workplace Relations: Inquiry into Employment: Increasing participation in paid work, Submission No 22. For more information click here.
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Reid, A., and ODonoghue, M. (2004) Revisiting enquiry-based teacher education in neo-liberal times, in the international journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 20, No. 6, pp. 559-570.
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Reid, A and Thomson, P (2004) Democracy and the official curriculum in Lifelong Learning and the Democratic Imagination, Post Pressed, Flaxton, Queensland, pp.415 430.
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Tom Stehlik edited the vol. 44, no. 2 (July) issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning.
Conferences
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Steve Keirl provided a keynote address for the Design and Technology Association International Research Conference in Sheffield, UK, entitled Life in the Lilypond: Nurturing the design and technology family while keeping the alligators fed.
- Reid, A. Friday, July 30, Keynote address to the Barossa District Leaders Conference: Towards a culture of inquiry, Nurioopta.
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Tom Stehlik presented a paper Contract research into vocational education for Indigenous adult learners in Australia whose interest are being served? at SCUTREA (Standing conference on university teaching and research in adult education), University of Sheffield, England, 6-8 July. Based on his story of involvement with contract research projects in adult education for indigenous learners, Tom's paper investigated issues in funding, commissioning and ethically managing such projects; and explored the extent to which research outcomes and findings influence policy, benefit indigenous communities, and contribute to an understanding of the learning needs of individuals.
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Tom also presented on The worldwide Waldorf School movement: Educating for Humanity at The Second International Conference on the Humanities, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy.
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Peter Willis also presented a paper entitled 'Mentorship, transformative learning and nurture: Adult education challenges in research supervision' at the SCUTREA (Standing conference on university teaching and research in adult education), University of Sheffield, England, 6-8 July. Peter presented narratives of research supervision practice pursued as inclusive, person-centred, adult education, suggesting that such a pursuit needs to respond to three challenges: mentorship; transformative pedagogy and tactful nurturance.
- Education@UniSA was well represented at the national conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association conference at CSU, Bathurst last week, with presentations from Marie Brennan, Judy Peters, Rosie le Cornu and Michael ODonoghue.
Professional Service
- Bruce Johnson attended a reception in honour of Naidoc Week held by the Premier of South Australia at Parliament House on Monday 5 July.
Seminar Series
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The CREEW Colloquium on Friday 30 July was well attended. Fortuitous planning meant that nibbles and drinks were served before and during, as well as after, so discussion was quite relaxed and free flowing. Annie Campbell, Senior Business Manager for the Division, very competently, and with much flexibility, presented relevant information on the formal requirements for the management of research projects in the university, together with a few stories of good and bad practices in project management. Thank you Annie, together with Sue Howard, Bruce Johnson and Judy Gill for their contributions!
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Please remember that CREEW will be presenting our first public lecture and book launch on 5 August, 6-7.45 pm in The Atrium, Yungondi Building, North Terrace, City West campus. Mike Newman will be presenting on 'Teaching for sustainable, vigorous and defiant societies' in the 'Weaving the social fabric' seminar series. This will be followed by the launch, by Denise Bradley, of the book 'Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination: revisioning justice, freedom and community', edited by Peter Willis and Pam Carden. For more information, and to register, click here.
Postgraduate News
Lisa Davies will be presenting on "Out of the Laboratory and into the Habitus" at the Annual Divisional Postgraduate Forum in August. Lisa writes: My presentation will describe my methodological struggle with the process of leaving a view of the universe which was grounded in psychology and statistics, and entering a world of post structuralism and qualitative research methods.
Lisa has also had a paper accepted for the ALA conference in November entitled " If we give them beer, they might come: Breaching the sub-cultural divide of organisational resistance to education about depression in the workplace."
HRISS Update
Alison Mackinnon writes:
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We are nearly there! The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies has been approved by a UniSA working party chaired by Prof Ian Davey and is now subject to ratification by Research Policy Committee which meets on Friday 6 August. We have been given useful extracts from three assessors reports to reflect on and help us move forward.
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At the HRISS steering committee meeting and the following discussion of research grants/programs last week we identified three major interdisciplinary programs which currently provide foci for much of our work. They are:
- Eco-social sustainability in the Murray Darling Basin and associated issues of policy, pedagogy, water justice, sustainability and eco-humanities
- Restructuring and renewal in communities at risk (work, restructuring, unions, schools, youth, globalization etc)
- Lifeways, pathways: changing paths to work, to school and to adult life
Of course these are not the only things we do but seemed like useful ways of organizing for the way ahead.
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We will soon have our password-protected website up and running so that all HRISS members can have access to minutes of meetings, info re programs, events etc.
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Watch for the Book Writers Club starting this week: convened by Kathy Arthurson and providing a support (and stimulus) group for those writing monographs.
Centre News
Roger is back at UniSA after completing his 5 week teaching stint at the University of Konstanz in Germany as a component of his PEL, and after 2 weeks in London.
Future CREEW's News
This newsletter reflects the activities and interests of some 80 members of CREEW. Please keep us informed about your activities, sending all contributions to Linda Rainey.