CREEW'S News
August 2006
Hello everybody
CREEW members are back on deck again after the mid-year break, with several reporting on their travels ...
Publications
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Roger and Michele have continued their international collaboration with Rob Poell who was a Visiting Research Scholar in CREEW three years ago from The Netherlands. Their most recent article has just been published in an international journal:
Poell, R, Van der Krogt, FJ, Vermulst, AA, Harris, R & Simons, M (2006) Roles of informal workplace trainers in different organizational contexts: Empirical evidence from Australian companies, Human Resource Development Quarterly (USA), vol. 17. no. 2, Summer, pp. 175-198. -
Judy Peters and Rosie Le Cornu had an article entitled School Leaders Use of Emotional Literacy to Manage Transition published in the International Journal of Learning, Vol 12, Issue 4 (2006).
Conferences and Presentations
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Roger presented a paper at an International Conference in Sheffield recently:
Harris, R (2006), Building organisational capability: the role of research in supporting Australias registered training organisations for the future, paper to 2nd International Conference on Integrating for Excellence, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 28-30 June.
He also was invited to chair one half day session that included six papers from presenters from six countries: UK, USA, Israel, Egypt, Germany and South Africa. Atogether the conference involved researchers from 24 different countries. -
Le Cornu, R (2006) 'Reculturing the practicum through scholarly learning conversations', refereed paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Conference, Fremantle, 5th 8th July, This paper has been published in the Conference Proceedings CD entitled Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education ISBN 0 9775685 0 4.
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In July (11-14) Judy Peters attended the Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations at the Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy. She presented a paper entitled Perceptions of Significant Change in School Cultures in South Australia on behalf of co-authors Rosie Le Cornu, Margot Foster, Robyn Barratt and Jacqueline Stratfold.
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Peters, J & Le Cornu, R (2006) 'Exploring Perceptions of Successful Early Career Teachers in South Australian Primary Schools', refereed paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Conference, Fremantle, 5 8 July. This paper has also been published in the Conference Proceedings CD entitled Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education ISBN 0 9775685 0 4.
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Alan Reid presented a paper on community and cosmopolitan democracy at the invited International Conference on Citizenship Education at Oriel College, Oxford University, England on Wednesday 26 June.
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Tom Stehlik gave an invited keynote address to the Future Scenarios in Education conference held in Helsinki on 5 6 June organised by the Finnish National Board of Education Schooling for Tomorrow project entitled 'Should I stay or should I go: who else can help engage potential school leavers?' The paper was jointly presented with UniSA graduate Andrew Wojecki and addressed findings from their recent mutual research into the role of youth workers in engaging young people at risk from early school leaving. Tom and Andrew were then invited to join the planning team for a Comenius 2.1 project on school satisfaction and student welfare, which is intended to involve teacher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Australia and New Zealand in a three year international project commencing in 2007.
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In regard to this conference, Andrew has supplied some extra information. He writes 'Andrew Wojecki and Tom Stehlik were invited by the Finnish National Board of Education to speak at the International Futures in Schooling Conference in Helsinki, Finland on June 5th and 6th 2006. The focus of the conference was in planning the future of Finnish schools and what they might look like in 2015. Following Finlands achievements in the Program for International Student Achievement (PISA) 2003, a three-yearly study of 15 year olds in 41 participating OECD countries, the Finnish National Board of Education is embarking in futures-scenario planning envisioning the future of Finnish schooling. Tom and Andrew co-presented on their individual work and research on strategies for re-engaging early school leavers, with particular attention given to the roles of youth workers as facilitators of learning and youth centres as legitimate sites of learning'.
Andrew adds I was amazed by the hospitality and warmth that Tom and I were given during our stay in Finland. I found it to be a great opportunity to share my current work and thinking with other educators, school leaders, and policy makers. As part of my trip I was also able to visit with Silwa Claesson, Lecturer in Pedagogy, at Gteborg University, in Sweden. It was a very long flight but I found there to be much commonality, synergy, and dynamism with our friends in the far north.
David Istance, from the Organisation of Economic Development (OECD), Tom Stehlik from the University of South Australia, Ruth Gorinski from the Ministry of Education, New Zealand, and Andrew Wojecki from Relationships Australia (SA).
Seminars
Peter Willis is putting together an interesting programme of seminars for the second semester, including presentations from Professor Patricia Cranton from Penn State University, Pennsylvania.
Grants
NCVER, on behalf of the Department of Education, Science and Training
will be advertising a funding round on Saturday 22 July 2006 in the Weekend
Australian and on Wednesday 26 July 2006 in the Campus Review. The research
priorities to be funded are:
- Contemporary models for employment based training
- Matching VET offerings to regional development skills needs
- Open Category
Information kits, including a template for proposals can be obtained from
the NCVER website.
Closing date for submissions is 5pm (CST) Monday 14 August 2006.
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Centre News
On 9 June CREEW Key Researchers met with Professor
Barbara Pocock and other members of the Centre for Work and Life to explore
areas of overlap and difference between the two centres. Barbara explained
that her research centre investigates work and its intersection with
household , family, community and social life in Australia. It has eight
members including three doctoral students and currently holds four ARC
grants. Industry partners include the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Lend Lease
Communities, the Department of Industry and Regional Development (Victoria),
the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union and SA Unions.
Current research projects are:
Changing work life patterns of Australian women, men and children,
households and
communities;
Low paid services employment in Australia;
Re-conceptualising citizenship and the commodification of labour; and
The work, home and community study.
CREEW Key Researchers shared their research interests and current studies
and it appeared that the greatest area of overlap with the Centre for Work
and Life is with some of Micheles foci on relationships and counselling.
Barbara raised an interesting question for us to consider as to whether
research should come from researchers passions or be framed around the
identified gaps and priorities in relation to important social issues.
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