Hawke Research Institute
Dr Sue Shore
Centre for Studies in Literacy Policy and Learning Cultures
Ms
Elaine Butler
Research Centre for Gender Studies
An emergent research agenda
We are entering, yet again, a ‘policy moment’ where, despite the ‘silos’
that surround disciplines, literatures, policy agencies, the
organisation of university departments and research funding, vocational
education and training policy activity is central in the ‘rewriting’ of
social contracts and transformation of global/local institutions. These
processes have little regard for boundaries, and less again for the
potential impact for those least able to maintain the basics of a safe
and sustainable life.
The principal researchers have worked collaboratively at UniSA and its
preceding institutions, on program and course developments, teaching,
symposia, and research projects over two decades. This includes shared
reading and identification of professional development activities to
build our capacity as a research team. We are committed to work as
public intellectuals, as well as creating space for our postgraduate
students to engage in this work with us. During this time we have
accumulated a number of
data sets to provide important longitudinal
analyses of policy shifts and theoretical framings of VET provision
during times of considerable cultural, socio-economic and political
change. As a result of thinking about these research, teaching and
scholarly collaborations we see the need for the development of a
comparative and longitudinal approach to research, based on an emergent
methodology of ‘global conversations’ that addresses questions of
location, national/global institutional change, multi disciplinarity,
national policy formulation and theoretical efficacy.
Projects
Contact details:
Dr Sue Shore and
Ms Elaine Butler
Status of project: Ongoing
Referencing convention: Shore, S. & Butler, E. (2006).
Global/local conversations around work and life.
http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cslplc/research/Global
