CREEW'S News
March 2006
Hello everybody
Welcome to the first CREEW's News of 2006. Everybody's been very active over the last few months - we hope you enjoy reading all the news.
- Research News
- Publications
- Conferences and presentations
- Awards
- Professional Practice
- Seminar Program
- Postgraduate News
- Meet the CREEW
- Centre News
- Future CREEW's News
Research News
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Bruce Johnsons project Case Study Implementation of Child Protection Curriculum will involve schools and preschools in the Darlington/Seaview Cluster working collaboratively to conduct research on six issues: delineating curriculum authority; promoting facilitative leadership; establishing moral purpose; generating community support; promoting and assessing educator learning; and promoting and assessing teacher learning. These issues will be addressed through promoting evidence-based practice through local inquiry and promoting networking within and across sites. A range of inquiry approaches and techniques will be used. Action research reports will be delivered in July 2006 and a final report in September 2006. This project is registered on the Project Quality System at UniSA. The PQS allows you to view basic details (eg start/end date, project leader, budget items) about the project. More about the PQS here.
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Judy Peters and Rosie Le Cornu have won a divisional research grant to investigate 'Stakeholders perceptions of successful early career teaching in South Australian primary schools'. They are about to begin collecting data from teachers and principals in six 'Learning to Learn' primary schools. Congratulations Judy and Rosie!
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The Division has published, through the new Centre for Work and Life in the Hawke Institute, the proceedings of the 2006 Conference proceedings of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) titled 21st Century Work: High Road or Low Road (eds Pocock, Provis and Willis). The Conference was convened by the UniSA and Adelaide and Flinders Universities .
Publications
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Peter Geyer writes: 'Recently, I've presented three papers at the Psychological Type and Culture Conference at Honolulu Hawai'i (Jan 2006). The papers were:
- 'Learning to teach type and the MBTI : An accreditation experience';
- 'Consciousness and its role in understanding and interpreting MBTI results'; and
- 'Form K of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in Australia: Its robustness, interpretation and use', with Ian Ball of Deakin University. I presented on Ian's behalf. This paper was also presented in a symposium at the Australian Psychological Society's Melbourne Conference in September 2005 and it is being submitted for publication with the Journal of Psychological Type.
- My review of the conference 'Cultural norms, and other people: Hawai'i, type and vulture 2006' is soon to be published in the Australian Psychological Type Review.
- I continued to write regularly for the Australian Psychological Type Review in 2005 in my 'Freewheelin'' column: 'Sporting chance: Experts, work and other experiences'; 'Error 87 and other contemporary myths: On life without facts'; 'Personal risk: Role models and other demands'; with 'Life, going forward? Roadmaps, decisions etc' to be published shortly.
-Other papers were also published in the Australian Psychological Type Review in 2005: 'Consciousness and Psychological Type: An investigation into meaning and relationship'; '328,735km: Persona, cars, labels, life'; and, with John Bathurst , from the Open Polytechnic in New Zealand, 'Measuring differences: what are the MBTI word pairs and phrases doing? .' -
Miao, S Y, Harris, R & Rainey, L (2005/2006) 'Engaging with foreign culture during a study tour: Taiwanese learners perspectives', accepted for the International Journal of Humanities, vol. 3. CREEW members may remember Shin-Yu, who was a PhD student and graduated in 2005.
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Miao, S Y, Harris, R & Sumner, R, Exploring learning during study tours: participant perspectives, The International Journal of Learning.
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Judy Peters and Rosie le Cornu have had their refereed paper 'Creative dissent about school leadership: Co-construction in new settings published in the on-line proceedings of the 2005 AARE Conference.
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On 7 December a new book , 'Beyond communities of practice: Theory as experience' edited by Tom Stehlik and Pam Carden, was launched by Professor Alison Mackinnon, from the Hawke Institute. The book has chapters written by contributors from Australia and Finland.
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Another new book now available is 'One pencil to share: stories of teacher transformation in science and mathematics from the Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa', Michael Chartres and Kathryn Paige, Post Pressed, 2005 AUS $30.00. One of the challenges of these times is to address the increasing disparity between rich and poor. This collection of inspirational stories of transformation of individual teachers is the result of a collaborative project between educators in South Africa and South Australia, providing opportunities to develop and share teacher practices and redistribute resources.
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Denise MacGregor writes: 'An article titled Unique SA model addresses skill shortage recently appeared (Feb 2006) in a publication titled Ideas for Practitioners- A professional development guide to growth and change in the Australian vocational education and training sector, by Dr John Mitchell and Associates. The published article acknowledged the Bachelor of Education, Design and Technology program, offered at the University of South Australia, as being innovative and unique. The article suggested that the structure of the program could provide a nationally viable alternative to Australian Technical Colleges. The degree of collaboration between educational sectors such as TAFE, the University of South Australia, Secondary Schools and Industry were also highlighted. I have the article if you require a copy.'
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Conferences and presentations
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Marie Brennan, Robert Hattam and colleagues presented a symposium titled 'The pedagogical challenge: rethinking relevance in the interests of social justice' at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference at the Parramatta Campus of the University of Western Sydney on 27 November.
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Robert Hattam also presented a paper, with Stephen Atkinson, titled 'Reconciliation as a frame for rethinking racism' at the same conference.
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Alan Reid presented the opening address at the recent invited national Forum of Chief Executives of Boards of Studies and Curriculum Agencies and Directors of Curriculum, at the Melbourne Business School, Melbourne on 7 February. The Forum was designed to promote greater curriculum collaboration between the States in the face of the many recent curriculum initiatives being undertaken by the Federal Government.
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The 'Redesigning Pedagogies in the North' ARC linkage project held its annual conference at the Australian Education Union on 25 November. Presenters included 30 teachers from the10 schools within the project as well as CREEW members: Robert Hattam, Marie Brennan, Bill Lucas, Fay McCallum and Alan Reid.
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The Hawke Research Institute recently hosted a visit by a group of academics from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. Professor Keijo Rsnen, colleague Dr Anne Herbert and PhD candidates met with Dr Deborah Churchman and Dr Tom Stehlik to discuss common research interests and possible future collaborations as part of a Hawke Institute international seeding grant. This group then attended the fourth International Conference on Researching Work and Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, from December 11 - 14, where they all presented papers at a symposium on universities as worksites, organised and facilitated by Drs Churchman and Herbert.
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Awards
Congratulations to all the following CREEW members!
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Rosemary Badenoch has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Level C) by the University Council and Academic Board.
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John Holmes and Michele Simons have accepted offers as Associate Head of School for Magill and Mawson Lakes campuses respectively.
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At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion held at the University of Sydney, Michael O'Donoghue was elected President of the Association. It was also decided that the 30th Conference would be held in 2006 in Adelaide, where it had been founded by Norman Habel and a group of Adelaide-based CAE academics in Religion Studies in 1976. Also Robert Crotty was honoured with an Emeritus Membership of the Association at the same AGM.
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Judy Peters, Tom Stehlik, Elaine Butler ,Susan Howard, Judy Gill and Rosemary Badenoch have been approved for PEP leave in 2006 by the Division Executive.
Professional Practice
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Peter Geyer writes: 'I've been appointed Interest Area Co-ordinator for Research and Theory with the Association for Psychological Type International, based in the USA, which is a leadership position in which I get to write a regular article for the APT Bulletin, which is its newsletter, and arrange a Symposium on Research and Theory at the next APT Conference in mid 2007. I've also been appointed to the Review Board of the research journal, Psychological Type Research International: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Type (PTRI).'
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Alan Reid has accepted an invitation to Chair the Board of the Northern Area State Secondary Schools Alliance (NASSSA). The NASSSA Board has been established to consolidate the exciting cooperative relationship/partnerships that have been developing between the 10 secondary schools in the northern region of Adelaide over the past few years.
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Tom Stehlik recently completed a successful seven-month secondment to the Department of Premier and Cabinet as a Research Fellow with the Social Inclusion Unit, contributing to the evaluation of the state governments School Retention Action Plan. The opportunity to be an embedded researcher in a central agency involved in government policy provided a unique learning experience for Tom, and enabled the Social Inclusion Unit to broaden its perspective on research and evaluation, with the result that the unit is keen to continue its links with the Hawke Research Institute and if possible pursue similar such arrangements in the future.
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Staff involved in the PNG Curriculum Reform Implementation Project (CRIP) Lower Secondary Partnership project have been notified that all nine lower secondary syllabuses they helped develop as part of structural education reform in PNG have been passed by the PNG Secondary Board of Studies. Team members have been thanked for their terrific assistance in the syllabus development process. CREEW members involved in this project are Denise MacGregor, Tom Stehlik and Rosemary Badenoch. Work will now commence on the Teacher Guides for each of the syllabus areas.
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Seminar Program
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The end of the 2005 Seminar programme included the following presentations: Lisa Davies described two recent conference papers: If I offered pizzas and beer after work, they might come to it: understanding challenges to education about depression in the workplace, and Disquiet, dismay and disrepute: contemporary stigma and ignorance about employees with depression in some modern Australian workplaces; Peter Willis: Mythopoesis and mythopoetic pedagogy; and Rob Pattenden, from Macquarie University, presented 'Artists do the Big Picture: Arts Practice as Cultural Re-imagining'.
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Peter Willis will be putting together a seminar program for 2006. Please contact Peter if you would like to make a presentation.
Postgraduate News
Ann Lawless writes: 'I am delighted to have won a fulltime scholarship to continue my PhD an Australian Postgraduate Award. So in 2006 I will be a fulltime Higher Degree Research student attached to CREEW'. Congratulations Ann!
Meet the CREEW
Peter Geyer is currently undertaking PhD studies at the University of South Australia, supervised by Roger Harris, investigating the nature of psychological type as a personality construct and how it is used and interpreted by trained professionals. Peter has taught the MBTI at Qualifying and Advanced levels since 1993. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Psychological Type, a founder of the Psychological Type Research Unit at Deakin University in Melbourne, and a life member of AusAPT. He contributes a regular column and articles on both conceptual and practical aspects of type to the Australian Psychological Type Review. He has written and presented various papers, including psychological type as a grand theory, type as a contemporary theory of personality, type and emotion, consciousness and type, type and depression, social implications of a type perspective, Isabel Briggs Myers as scientist. Peter has also collaborated and advised on research from several universities. Peter's research interests are multidisciplinary, having qualifications in the study of history, religions, education, organisations and the history and philosophy of science. His qualifications are BA (Hons); Dip. Ed.; Grad. Dip. (Organisation Behaviour); and an MSc, for which his thesis was: Quantifying Jung: the origin and development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Welcome Peter!
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Centre News
- The CREEW planning day was held on 16 February at the New Generation
function centre in Memorial Drive. The minutes will be distributed
shortly, but here are some photos for now ...
- The Activity Report was distributed to members at the Planning Day and is available here (418Kb). The Activity Report documents all achievements by CREEW members, many of which are gleaned from the CREEW's News - so please keep us up to date with your activities.
Future CREEW's News
CREEW's News is your newsletter, so please keep us informed of all your activities and help maintain the democratic, collaborative and inclusive culture of CREEW.