CREEW'S News
June 2005
Unbelievably, we're nearly half way through the year and industrious CREEW members are battling deadlines and commitments, but remaining productive ....
- Publications
- Conferences
- Presentations
- Awards
- Postgraduate News
- Seminar Program
- Centre News
- HRISS News
- Future CREEW's News
Publications
- The report written by Roger Harris, Bob Sumner and Linda Rainey, entitled Student traffic: two-way movement between VET and higher education and recently published by NCVER (www.ncver.edu.au/publications/1549.html), has received a great deal of media publicity recently. It has been an interesting experience in how each account selects different emphases. It was first written up by Laura Anderson (Political Reporter) in The Advertiser on Saturday 14 May (p. 5), University first and then its off to TAFE. Students seek skills to enhance job prospects. Secondly, it appeared in ANTA Fast Facts, No. 214, of 16 May, Students flow from uni to VET. Thirdly, it received front page exposure by Brendan OKeefe in the Higher Education Supplement of The Australian on Wednesday 18 May (p. 29), Job chances see masses move to VET. And most recently, it has been written up by Alethea Mouhtouris in the Campus Review dated 18 May (p. 9), Student traffic between unis and VET complex: Study (with the first sentence stated the wrong way around, for which she rang and sincerely apologised another reader had picked it!)
- Alan Reid has been a member of the three person Panel, chaired by former Education Minister Greg Crafter, reviewing the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE). The Review Report was handed to the Minister of Education, Hon Jane Lomax-Smith, on Friday, April 29.Alan will shortly be returning to the uni.
Conferences
- The following appeared in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences hallowed dot points for the week ending 13 May 2005. Women in Adult and Vocational Education and Training (WAVE) held a highly successful National Forum Women living and learning: rhetoric or reality? at Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) on April 7-8th, 2005. Keynote presentations were delivered by Elaine Butler (Education) (Practices of repetition: the case of disappearing women and policy problematics in VET. A reflection. EASS PhD student Jeannie Daniels ... presented (her) contribution to a national research project relating to girls, in a conversational launch of the report: Getting Real? Girls and Young Women, Working Futures and VET in Schools.
- Roger Harris conducted a two hour workshop at the VISTA Annual Conference in Lorne on 23 May, attended by 36 participants. The workshop highlighted the work of the new VET Research Consortium, and involved small group discussions on some key questions related to the future of registered training organisations.
- Alan Reid delivered the opening keynote address at the recent national conference: Quality teachers, quality teaching: towards a new agenda, at the Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University, on Monday 23 May, 2005.
Presentations
- Alan Reid delivered the MacKillop Medal Lecture on Friday May 20: Rethinking approaches to national curriculum: Beyond the railway gauge metaphor. The MacKillop Lecture marks the Australian College of Educators biennial distinguished educators award, the MacKillop Medal.
- Marie Brennan was one of the speakers to a group of Malaysian principals who visited the new Mawson Lakes building of the School of Education on Friday May 6.
- A number of CREEW members attended the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Salisbury, Barossa, and Kumangka Para Districts and the University of South Australia: 'Northern Adelaide: A Zone of Middle Schooling Innovation', on May 20. Marie Brennan presented on The Middle Years of Schooling: Building Resources for Hope and Robert Hattam on Connecting Young Peoples Lives to The Curriculum.
Awards
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Congratulations to David Badenoch for being recognised by a 2004 Scholarly Teaching Award. The scheme will be closed in 2005 and a new Supported Teacher scheme will take its place.
Postgraduate News
- Lisa Davies has had an abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the International Mental Health at the IPO Conference 2005, Mental Health and the Millennium Development Goals sponsored by the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London to be held from 31st August to 2nd September 2005.
- Lisa will also be giving a paper about the use of qualitative approaches in her research at the 24th International Human Sciences Research Conference being held at the university of Bournemouth, UK, from the 10th to the 13th of August 2005. The theme of this conference is 'Are there values which bind us as human science researchers'.
- Halia Senu, one of CREEWs PhD candidates, passed the School Panel stage on 19 May. She has transferred to Education from the Business Division, and now is supervised by Roger Harris as principal supervisor and Peter Willis as associate supervisor.
- Deborah Tranters recent post graduate working paper Why university? A case of socio-cultural reproduction in disadvantaged secondary schools has been picked up by SAPO (South Australian Policy On-Line), APO (Australian Policy On-Line) and various newsletters with wide national distribution.
- Deb Tranter is co-author of a refereed paper which has been accepted for the HERDSA conference in Sydney in July.
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Here
is another photo of a graduating CREEW postgraduate, Peter
Shanahan (MEd), with Roger Harris. Another photo showing
Doug Conlan
(PhD), Peter Shanahan and Peter Willis was featured in May's CREEW's
News.
Seminar Program
- Jeannie Daniels and Jan Coker presented two well received seminars on 20 May entitled: 'Lifting the curtain and finding the voice: confronting the framework of VET in Womens Education' and 'Using narrative readings in interpretative research'.
Centre News
- Val Pudney is joining the CREEW team from Tuesday 31 May. She will work on several of the Centres projects. Val comes to us after a period as research assistant and project officer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Division of Health Sciences, City East. She will be able to tell us more about herself in later issues of CREEWs News.
HRISS News
- Visiting Scholars: Professors Britt-Marie Berge and Ulla Johannsson visited the Hawke Research Institute from 9 20 May as part of an ongoing research relationship with the University of Ume, Sweden.
- HRISS events on June 10 include: the inaugural HRISS Advisory Committee Meeting; a public forum 'Global questions, global ideas'; and the HRISS launch/celebration at 4.30pm at City West Campus (please rsvp to karen.hewitt@unisa.edu.au). Click here for more info.
- On 9 May an email was circulated to HRISS staff advising of the availability of HRISS funds and how to access these funds which is in keeping with the HRISS International Research Agenda. The response to date has been good and applications will be considered at the next HRISS Executive meeting in June.
- 16 June Big Day In Planning Day: The aim is to focus on outcomes: research projects to be advanced, international initiatives and post graduate culture. Come and meet with colleagues, strategise and have fun. Time is running out - RSVP essential: karen.hewitt@unisa.edu.au
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.