CREEW'S News
March 2005
Hello everyone. Welcome back! Many of us are in a new location after the move from Underdale campus. Here at Mawson Lakes we're enjoying the new building and the lovely views across the city to the hills. Hopefully, everybody has had a chance to settle in, ready for another busy academic year. CREEW members, however, have continued to be active in their research activities, some of which are reported in this first edition of CREEW's News for 2005.
- Research News
- Publications
- Conferences
- Professional Practice
- Awards
- Seminar Program
- Meet the CREEW!
- Centre News
- HRISS News
- Future CREEW's News
Research News
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Roger Harris is Consortium Director and Michele Simons is a researcher for recently won national competitive research funding of $600,000, provided by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA). Sixteen Australian VET researchers from UniSA, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) will research professional development practices and models for Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, aimed at building the capability of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) for the future. The consortium will work together to build the workforce capability and professional standing of the VET workforce, focussing on three areas of workforce development that together build organisational capability: people, cultures and practices.
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Tom Stehlik and Pam Carden received a Divisional Research Performance Fund Grant of $1500 towards publication costs for the forthcoming edited book Beyond Communities of Practice to be published this year by Post Pressed and marketed through CREEW Books.
Publications
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Gill J, 2004, 'Social Inclusion in South Australian Primary Schools', University of South Australia, Adelaide.
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Bruce Johnson has announced the publication of the 10th edition of the Journal of Educational Enquiry (vol 5, no2, 2004) which is available electronically at http://www.literacy.unisa.edu.au/JEE
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Mills J, Ayre M, Hands D & Carden P, 2005, 'Learning about learning styles: Can it improve engineering education?', MountainRise, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2005).
MountainRise is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University as an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL). -
Reid A, 2005, 'Beyond managerialism: Inquiry-based leadership in an education system', in Professional Voice, Vol 3, No 3, pp 11-16.
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Reid A, 2005, 'Rethinking National Curriculum Collaboration: Towards an Australian Curriculum', DEST, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, pp 1-72, ISBN 0642775052, on-line version: http://www.dest.gov.au/research/publications/national_curriculum/default.htm
Conferences
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Gill J, 2004, 'The power of more than one: Comparative approaches to educational research', Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES).
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Gill J & Howard S, 2004, 'Revisioning the social: young Australians and the rural/urban divide', Annual Conference of the American Association for Research in Education (AERA), San Diego, California.
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Gill J & Howard S, 2004, 'Sydney or the bush: Images of space and place in conversation with contemporary Australian schoolchildren', Annual Conference of the British Education research Association (BERA), Manchester, UK.
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Gill J & Howard S, 2004, 'Up the country or down in the city? Working with curriculum and young peoples imagined Australias', Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Melbourne.
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Gill J & Moyle K, 2004,'Just how far have we come? A retrospective on girls education and an analysis of the present situation', Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Melbourne.
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Gill J, Sharp R, Franzway S & Mills J, 2004,'I wanna be an engineer!: a tale of high-achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity', Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Melbourne.
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Sue Howard and Bruce Johnson gave a refereed paper at the AARE conference in Melbourne, 28 Nov 4 Dec called Transition from primary to secondary school: possibilities and paradoxes.
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Tom Stehlik presented a paper entitled Building a university research culture what does it look like? at the recent ATN Research on Research Conference held at UniSA on February 7.
Professional Practice
Bill Lucas, Faye McCallum and Denise Macgregor were members of a team who have just returned from South Africa where they have been involved in a week of intensive moderation/affirmation with teachers in the Eastern Cape Province. Working with colleagues from the University of Fort Hare and the Eastern Cape Education Department, the team assessed the professional portfolios of over 800 teacher-learners. The Distance Education Program, which provides new insights on global teaching and learning and on authentic assessment strategies, is an international linkage program (Fort Hare, Open University (UK) and The Eastern Cape Education Department) which has been operating for ten years.
Awards
- Rosie Le Cornu won a 2004 EASS Teaching and Learning Grant for Practicum Scholarship in Education in the December 2004 round. Congratulations Rosie!
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CREEW members featured in the seven projects which received 'The Chancellor's Awards for Community Service' in 2004. Fiona Underwood was part of the team which undertook the 'University Orientation Program Project 'and Bill Lucas participated in the 'Seaford 6-12 School City School Project'. The purpose of these awards is to acknowledge and celebrate activities, undertaken by University staff and students, which provide a significant benefit to community groups, particularly those identified in the founding legislation. Congratulations Fiona and Bill!
Seminar Program
Peter Willis is enthusiastically putting together a seminar program for the year. If you would like to present a seminar, please contact Peter Willis.
Meet the CREEW!
Although large in number, members of CREEW do not often have the opportunity to meet and get to know each other at a personal as well as a professional level. We invite all CREEW members to send in a short 200 word thumbnail sketch of themselves, to flesh out the name. This month we have a contribution from a new postgraduate student, Ann Lawless.
Ann writes:
I am commencing a PhD at Mawson Lakes campus. I am investigating the emerging wisdoms of change-agents and education activists, and the meanings they garner from their experiences.
I have a passionate interest in critical theory and postcolonialism, and have drawn on these theories in my work as a Medical Educator at University Adelaide Medical School. I have worked there for over four years where I have introduced Caffarellas curriculum design model; situational analysis of the curriculum; culture and gender issues in medicine, reflective practice and portfolio-based learning. I am about to have a chapter published in an edited collection on the intellectual and Indigenous inspirations for introducing whiteness, culture and gender into medical education.
I have worked at all three South Australian universities over the past 24 years, and both medical schools. I am immediate past president of Adult Learning Australia in South Australia and member of a number of professional associations such as HERDSA and ATEM.
I have been active in the general community in a variety of equity discourses mainly around anti-racism and pro-diversity.
Centre News
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The CREEW 2004 Activity Report was produced earlier this year and distributed to members at the annual workshop in February. All members will receive a copy very soon.
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CREEW achievements in 2004 included $657,000 external research income, $98,000 internal grants and 88 publications and presentations. Last year we had 46 higher degree research students, 11 supported Researchers and 18 members listed on the Research Register as higher degree supervisors. Well done, everybody!
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The annual CREEW Planning Workshop was held at Next Generation in Memorial Drive on 15 February and was attended by 27 members. Professor Ian Davey talked on the topic of 'Internationalisation'. Professor Davey touched on the different ways by which the university currently achieves internationalisation, for example through strategic partnerships with overseas educational institutions, which usually involve student exchange. The university is attempting to build relationships with key institutions overseas but needs advice from academic staff concerning which institutions which would be valuable research partners. Professor Davey encouraged staff to build relationships with international researchers which could be used as a basis for collaborative research at an institutional level.
Roger led the workshop and recapped the year's events reported in the 2004 Activity Report. Instead of small group discussions, the whole group contributed to a very interesting and productive planning discussion. This was enriched by contributions from representatives of two sister research groups, Helen Nixon from the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures and Lia Bryant from the Research Centre for Gender Studies.
The afternoon was very enjoyable and positive, giving us the chance to catch up with each other in a relaxed and pleasant environment. Miriam ably organised the venue and refreshments, as usual, and will be distributing minutes to members very soon. -
The 'Member Directory', 'Publications' and 'Projects' pages of the CREEW web site have been updated. Please check your entries are correct. Also, if you would like to provide a short description of your project against the entry on the web page - please send it to Linda.
HRISS News
During 2004, a number of research groups and centres within the university evolved into the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS). A retreat in November 2004 to discuss structure, governance and identity will be followed by a members' day in May or June. All CREEW members are automatically members of HRISS and can access all the news and facilities through the HRISS website.
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.