CREEW'S News
October/November 2004
Hello everyone
Here is a two month edition of CREEW's News to make up for the missed edition in October. This may be the last edition for the year as academic programs are winding up and academic staff scatter far and wide. We will be assembling the annual Activity Report soon so, if there is an activity you have been involved in which has not been included in CREEW's News, please notify us so that it can be included in the report. CREEW's News is written by members, so thank you all for your many contributions over the year and helping us all keep in touch.
- Research News
- Publications
- Conferences
- Professional Development
- Seminar Series
- Postgraduate News
- HRISS Update
- Future CREEW's News
Research News
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The final report, A huge learning curve: TAFE Practitioners' ways of working with private enterprises' by Roger Harris, Michele Simons and Julian Moore, was submitted to NCVER on 22 September for external review.
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A proposal for a national consortium on "Building RTOs for the Future" was submitted on 29 October. It is in response to a call for such consortia, this one for $600,000 over two years of research. This is the way VET research is being funded now, in consortia of researchers scattered over Australia rather than funds being given to two Key Research Centres (previously situated in Sydney and Melbourne). The submitted Proposal comprises 16 researchers, some of whom are located in three leading research centres at UniSA, UTS and CIT, the others are located strategically over the country. The proposal has CREEW as the lead Centre.
Publications
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Sue Howard and Bruce Johnson (2004) Resilient Teachers: Resisting Stress and Burnout in Social Psychology of Education, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp-1 - 22
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Bruce Johnson announced the publication of the 9th edition of the Journal of Educational Enquiry, Volume 5, No 1, 2004
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Reid, A.(2004) Guest Editor, Point and Counterpoint: 'Curriculum and Democracy', Curriculum Perspectives, Vol. 24. No. 3. pp. 59 - 79
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Reid, A (2004) 'Challenging the dominant grammars of an undemocratic curriculum', in Curriculum Perspectives, Vol. 24. No. 2. pp. 68-75.
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Reid, A (forthcoming) Rethinking National Curriculum Collaboration: Towards a National Curriculum. Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra, pp 1 - 96
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Reid, A Beyond managerialism: Inquiry-based leadership in an education system in Professional Voice, Vol. 3. No.3.
Conferences
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Judy Gill and Sue Howard are giving a paper at AARE Conference in Melbourne in December. The paper is entitled: Up the country or down in the city? Working with curriculum and young people's imagined Australias
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Sue Howard and Bruce Johnson are giving a refereed paper at the AARE Conference in Melbourne in December. The paper is entitled:Transition from primary to secondary school: Possibilities and paradoxes.
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Faye McCallum attended the ISPCAN (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect) 15th International Congress on Child Abuse & Neglect in Brisbane from Sept 19-22 and presented a paper entitled: Pre-service and Teacher Training in Child Protection.
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Alan Reid presented the opening keynote address: 'The politics and paradoxes of public education' presented to the annual conference of the South Australian Primary Principals Conference, October 21, Chateua Tanunda, Tanunda.
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Alan Reid also, on September 16, gave an invited presentation to the national executive of the Australian Education Union on new ways to think about funding for public education, Melbourne, and
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On September 7, Alan gave an invited presentation on 'Pedagogy, research and inquiry' to the Metro West District, DECS, West Adelaide Football Clubrooms.
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Reid, A, Johnson, B and Marshall, S Building a culture of inquiry across an education system, presented at the AARE annual conference on Wednesday, 1 December, Melbourne.
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Reid, A. Invited Panel Member on the topic of the Future of Public Education, final panel at the AARE Conference, Melbourne.
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A reminder about the Twelfth International Conference on Learning at the University of Granada, Spain, 11-14 July 2005. Closing date for papers is 30 November. For more information, click here.
Seminars
Three successful CREEW seminars were held in October, as follows:
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17 September Peter Willis presented a seminar on Mentorship, transformation and compassion: Adult education approaches to research supervision.
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15 October Tom Stehlik presented a seminar/forum on 'Beyond Communities of Practice', which will contribute to a book on the topic.
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22 October Rosie le Cornu & Judith Peters presented a seminar entitled 'Leaders in transition: Living with paradoxes.
Reid, A Directions for senior secondary education: Reflections from the SACE review, CREEW seminar on Friday November 19, 2004, Underdale Campus.
Professional Development
Tom Stehlik completed his six-month Fellowship with the Hawke Research Institute (HRISS) at Magill on October 19. Some outcomes include:
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Commenced publishing project editing a book with Pam Carden: Beyond Communities of Practice. Two seminars held August 12 at Murray House and October 15 at Underdale. Seed Grant from CREEW for $300 to establish publishing contract with Post Pressed, Queensland. Thirteen chapter abstracts received from local and international authors. Due for publication in mid 2005 .
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Currently applying for an ARC Round 2 Linkage Project Grant with three industry partners - Association of Independent Schools in SA and WA and Catholic Education SA in mapping and determining best practice in transition support for students through school to post-school destinations
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The CREEW website now features a link to CREEW publications with images of book covers and a link to the order form, thanks to help from Pam Carden and Kate Leeson at HRISS .
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I will have ongoing involvement with HRISS including membership of the Postgraduate research culture group and liaison between HRISS and CREEW members.
Postgraduate News
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Lisa Davies writes: I am presenting a paper at the ALA Conference in Adelaide in November. "If I put on free beer, they might come: Organisational cultures and challenges to education about depression in the workplace." Given the economic impact of depression in Australia, I interviewed people in the deregulated sector of Information Technology in South Australia about their accessibility to work based education about depression and to ask their opinions regarding the merit of such education. My early findings suggest it is perceived as not work related, not of interest to engineers and too expensive, however, an interesting dichotomy is emerging; most of the people whom I interviewed expressed personal, sympathetic and supportive views towards people with depression but simultaneously described sufferers in the workplace very unsympathetically and as a frustrating liability to business. I am proposing that an understanding of the factors associated with holding opposing attitudes in differing environments may enable the bridging of what appear to be disenfranchising organisational cultural constructs.
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Lisa also writes: I also presented a paper at the Post grad forum "Noesis" in August. "Out of the laboratory and into the Habitus." This paper was essntially a descripion of my situated learning since joining CREEW. Having come from a research background that was fixed firmly in sciences which attempted to answer rational questions by undertaking empirical procedures and assuming the possibility of an objective stance, I entered the habitus of CREEW as a novice PhD student seeking flexibility, creativity, clarity and enhanced understanding. But I found that initially I didn't know the rules of the new game and in an ironic microcosm of the emergence of post structuralism and post modernism, my former certainty was exposed as merely a particular and parochial historical form. Rather than unravelling another comforting meta-theory, my epistemological search has found instead that there is not one at all in a world of hyper reality, heteroglossia and simulacrum. While my conscious floundering and experiential learning continues, some clarity is emerging.
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Deborah Tranter writes: In September I presented a refereed conference paper at the Making Connections: Transition to University Conference at QUT. The paper was entitled "Maybe I wasn't supposed to be here": Students from Disadvantaged schools and the University Experience.
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Deborah will also be presenting a conference paper at the AARE conference in Melbourne at the end of the year entitled No greater uphill battle: the work of teachers in disadvantaged secondary schools and their influence on student aspirations.
HRISS Update
The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS) gained University Institute status in August. This means that CREEW along with the Centres of Research Centre for Gender Studies, Centre for Literacy, Learning and Language Cultures and several research groups will now form part of a new cross divisional (EASS and Business) social science research structure. As an Institute there will be a larger concentration of researchers and resources allowing new collaborations of a multidisciplinary nature which will allow us to operative more effectively in the changing and increasingly competitive research environment. CREEW will be a significant concentration in the new Institute. The Institute's Steering Committee is working hard at developing new governance options to be discussed with the HRISS membership. A paper of the options for a resource allocation model for the new Institute for 2005 and beyond will be distributed for discussion soon.
We welcomed three new post docs in August/September: Drs Emily Potter, Simon Rob and Kevin Purse. The focus of their work initially has been to submit 2 University competitive grants. Emily and Simon's proposal concerns how a cultural studies understanding of waste can expand and enrich the ways in which industry works with waste. Kevin's proposal utilises a country comparative approach to workers compensation costs and policy development. The next step is to set up reference groups comprising HRISS members interested in working in related research areas with a view to develop further research projects and collaborative funding proposals involving HRISS members. Emily, Simon and Kevin can be contacted at Murray House at Magill campus and would welcome hearing from anyone interested in joining the reference groups.
The HRISS Retreat for full members is still on target for 10 and 11 November at McLaren on the Lake, and if you haven't already responded to your invitation please do so ASAP. It will be a great opportunity contribute to our future and get to know each other in a lovely, relaxing environment.
Remember the Members Access Only page is where we keep updated information about HRISS, please let Debro have any suggestions regarding improvements. Our url is http://www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au/institute/
Future CREEW's News
Please continue to keep us notified of all your activities, sending all contributions to Linda Rainey.