CREEW'S News
Here's another newsletter to keep you up to date with all CREEW members' activities - busy, busy people!
August 2005
- Publications
- Research News
- Presentations
- Professional Practice
- Seminar Program
- HRISS News
- Future CREEW's News
Publications
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Sue Howard presented a paper (co-authored by Judy Gill) entitled 'Learning to belong: Children talking about feeling "Australian"' at the Sixth Child and Family Policy Conference, held at the Childrens Issues Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, 7 9th July.
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Le Cornu, R (2005),'Positioning the practicum through research and scholarship', Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association conference, July, Gold Coast.
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Le Cornu, R & Ewing, R (2005),' Developing richer learning communities in schools: Reconceptualising professional experiences for pre-service teachers', Paper presented at the 12th International conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, July, Sydney.
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Harris, R & Simons, M (June 2005), Exploring the notion of retention in apprenticeship, Education + Training (UK), vol.47, issue 4/5, June, pp.350-365, www.emeraldinsight.com/0040-0912.htm.
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We have just been informed that this paper, published last year, has received a Highly Commended Award from the Emerald Literati Clubs Awards for Excellence 2005: Harris, R, Simons, M & Carden, P (2004) Peripheral journeys: Probationary constables, learning and acceptance in an Australian police service, The Journal of Workplace Learning, vol. 16, no. 4, May, pp.205-218, www.emeraldinsight.com/1366-5626.htm.
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Michele and Roger presented a paper at Oxford University in July: Simons, M & Harris, R (2005), How much do they really need to know? What VET teachers and trainers learn about learners and learning from their initial training, presented to Sixth International Conference for Researching Policy and Practice in Vocational Education and Training, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, Oxford, 13-15 July.
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This article has now been published on the Consortiums work: Harris, R (2005) Opportunity to participate in VET research, The Australian TAFE Teacher, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 12 (July).
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On Monday 25 July, Professor Alan Reid, along with SACE Review Panel members Hon Greg Crafter and Patricia Crook, met with the Premier, Hon Mike Rann, and then attended a meeting of State Cabinet and presented an outline of their recommendations for senior secondary reform in South Australia.
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David Snewin presented a paper in June at The 5th Comparative Education Society of Asia Biennial Conference 2005. The conference was held at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia and had the main theme of Education for Peace: The Asian Context, attracting presenters from more than a dozen countries. Davids paper, An International Professional Development Program for Provincial Vietnamese Teacher-Educators, was based on off-shore teaching as part of an international consortium, following a research study conducted at the Hanoi University of Education.
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Research News
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The Department of Employment, Science and Training has just put out a call for tenders for provision of careers services for young people. DEST will be organising a base line survey of service providers which has many features in common with the current research project undertaken at CREEW entitled, 'Choosing VET: an evaluation of career development services for young people. DEST and CREEW will be keeping communication open in relation to this topic. An interesting example of the relevance of research practice to policy!
Presentations
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Marie Brennan gave a keynote address, 'How might we work towards serious postcolonial teacher education?' at the national conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association conference held at the Gold Coast last week.
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On Tuesday July 12, Alan Reid presented a Colloquium Session with three colleagues from the Wallarra District of DECS : A critical analysis of approaches to developing a system-wide culture of inquiry, at the international LERN Conference at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Professional Practice
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Robert Hattam and Marie Brennan are part of a team which has successfully tendered for Graduate Certificate Practitioner-Based Inquiry to the Department of Education and Childrens Services. This program is to be delivered for 2 years beginning in 2006.
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Liz Preston calls weekly for dot points to be included in the EASS under the headings 'highlights and achievements', 'teaching and learning', 'research and research education', international', collaboration and partnerships', and 'important contacts'. Marie Brennan asks you to 'please put in dot points when Liz Preston calls for them weekly as this is what gets checked at the end of the year for the annual report and it is important for Education in all our glorious dimensionality to be vigorously present inside the uni as well as outside'.
Seminar Program
In her presentation on 19 August Helen Raduntz intends to demonstrate
the critical method at work based on Marxian-Hegelian principles which
she formulated for her critical review essay of the book by well
respected US Marxist/Deweyan educator, Richard Brosio, entitled
Philosophical Scaffolding for the Construction of Critical Democratic
Education.
What the critique shows is that, while Brosios book is intended to
offer a practical guide particularly for those teachers working in the
US public school sector who are interested in actively changing the
social inequalities endemic in the system, it in actual fact presents a
set of ideas not founded on a rigorous analysis not only of his
philosophical assumptions but also of the external as well as the
internal dynamics shaping the system.
What Brosios proposals therefore represent is a set of ideal principles
and situations to which teachers might aspire but which are of little
assistance in helping them to get from the reality to the realisation of
the ideal.
Helen hopes that her thesis will stimulate a lively debate not only on
the pros and cons of her review but particularly on the practical
effectiveness of the method of critique she employs.
For those interested Helens review 'Constructing a Critical Democratic
Education: Is it possible?' can be downloaded from the website of the
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies Volume 3, Number 1 March
2005 http://www.jceps.com/
HRISS News
- The New look Hawke website has finally gone live. Why not take a look at http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute .Thanks go to Kate Leeson for all her efforts in working towards our wonderful new look. Please note the new URL for future reference.
- HRISS International Funding. The aim of this funding is to support international grant applications for major collaborative grants or associated initiatives that will assist HRISS in moving to a different category of grants. HRISS is pleased to announce that a total of 6 applications will be funded. Congratulations to those groups who were successful.
- We have a couple of new visiting scholars since the last CREEW
news. Feel free to contact them and welcome them to UniSA.
- Sofia Kling a PhD student from the Dept of History, University of Ume, Sweden will be with us until 12 August and gave an interesting paper on Childbearing and birth control in Sweden during the fertility decline (1870-1940). Sophia can be contacted via email at sofia.kling@ddb.umu.se
- Dr Patrik Lantto, Dept of History, University of Ume, Sweden will be at the HRI until Dec 2005. Patrik is working on a comparative study of Sami and indigenous education and is on the university email system if you wish to contact him. - Remember to take a look at our postgraduate working papers and as usual we have a number of upcoming events in the next few weeks. Please take time out to join us and meet some of the interesting people. Events can be viewed at http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/events/default.asp.
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.