CREEW'S News
October 2005
Welcome to another edition of CREEW's News. This is a smaller edition than normal, but still many remarkable achievements by members, including awards commemorating members' teaching and research histories. We're hoping for a bumper edition next month, so don't forget to let us all know about your world of research.
Publications
Alan is holding the fort with his publications this month:
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Reid, A (2005) 'The politics of national curriculum collaboration', Chapter 3 in Harris, C & Marsh, C (eds) (2005) Curriculum Development in Australia, OpenBook Publishers, Adelaide, pp. 39-52.
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Reid A (2005)
'Challenging the dominant grammars of an undemocratic curriculum' (pp. 97-105)
'Accountability and education: the great profiles debate' (pp. 152-154)
'Profiles: Real problems or real gains - from whose perspective?' (pp. 191-197)
in Marsh, C (ed) (2005) Curriculum Controversies: Point and Counterpoint, 1980-2005, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Deakin, Canberra. -
Reid, A (2005) 'Plain English - the Nelson Way', in The Independent Weekly, September 4-10, 2005, p. 8.
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Conferences and presentations
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Roger Harris was invited to present a keynote address at a Conference on Understanding TAFE Students conducted by the TAFE Development Centre (TDC) in Melbourne on 26 September. His address, entitled Moving students: experiencing both VET and higher education, was given to about 90 staff. This conference was one in a series of professional development activities for Victorian TAFE staff conducted by the newly established TDC which has a state-wide PD role. It is interesting that Victoria has seen the need for such a potentially important body presumably because, in a state which has the most decentralised VET system where all institutions are virtually autonomous, there is the need to have a coordinating agency which can bring staff together from across the state to talk, share and learn from each other what is going on in other institutions!
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Robert Hattam, together with Stephen Atkinson, presented a seminar entitled 'Reconciliation Pedagogies Project: Towards thinking critical pedagogy through a reconciliation frame' at the HRISS Research-at-work Seminar Series on 5 October. The seminar discussed some of the obstacles to reconciliation in Australia and proposed ways in which the concept of reconciliation might be used to rethink critical pedagogy.
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Alan Reid gave an invited presentation on 'Inquiry as a focus for organisational change', to the National Principal's Executive of the Australian Education Union (AEU), McGahey House, AEU, Adelaide, on 7 September.
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Alan Reid gave the following presentations at the biennial conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association Conference (ACSA) held at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, 21-23 September.
Member of a four person panel discussing curriculum controversies;
Workshop (with Tony McKay) on different ways to think about the quality teaching, quality teacher agenda
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Deb Tranter presented a paper entitled "Enhancing Higher Education opportunities for educationally disadvantaged secondary students: a cross-sectoral partnership" at the Equal Opportunity Practitioners in Higher Education (EOPHEA) Conference, Strategic Connections, at Griffith University, Brisbane, 27 - 29 September.
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Awards
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Congratulations to David Badenoch who is one of just 81 academic staff who have been awarded as a Supported Teacher. These awards recognise teachers who have gained above average evaluation from students, as identified in the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) data. Recipients are awarded $1500 each to be used for further professional development to improve teaching.
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Congratulations also to the following CREEW members who have been awarded as Supported Researchers:
Rosemary Badenoch
Marie Brennan
Roger Harris
Rob Hattam
Bruce Johnson
Steve Keirl
Rosie Le Cornu
Judy Peters
Alan Reid
Michele Simons
Tom Stehlik
Peter Willis
Supported researchers are determined on a points based system on the basis of income from Australian Competitive Grants and other external research funding, as well as publications and supervision of research degree completions. Funds are allocated to the relevant School Supported Researcher Fund, to be used to provide assistance to research activities.
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Seminar Program
We have had several interesting seminars presented by PhD students this month:
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On 2 Sept Glenna Lear presented 'Learning in the third age in rural communities' and Catherine Hall presented 'The law curriculum in Bachelor of Nursing: What is taught and learnt '.
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On16 Sept Ann Lawless presented 'Caring for the democratic spirit' and Sharron King on 'Emotional dimensions on radical change', this presentation including a innovative and thought provoking dialogue between the two presenters.
Centre News
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The CREEW management group has been replaced by the larger CREEW Key Researchers Group, whose inaugural meeting was on 30 September. The group discussed their role and the draft CREEW/HRISS work plan. Miriam will be distributing minutes to CREEW members soon.
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We currently have a visiting academic from the UK, Colleen McLaughlin, who will be here until 30 October. Colleen writes: I am currently at the Faculty of Education University of Cambridge where I teach and research. While I am here I am writing up some work on practitioner research and enquiry within schools and networked learning communities. I am also working with Bruce Johnson on a development of what we did in the bystander project. I am also enjoying Adelaide enormously!
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.