Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 39
June 5, 2015
Sporting claustropolis
What is happening to FIFA? Why are there so many drug scandals in cycling and the myriad codes of football? Do the global sporting events still regenerate and lift a city and region? Steve and Tara talk through the concept of 'sporting claustropolis' to describe and understand what is happening to global and globalizing sport.
Mick Winter 18 - Louis and Slavoj and Mick (and a bus)
Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he convince in this argument without end?
June 3, 2015
Academic text types and assessment design - embedding literacy outcomes
How do teachers and students share their expectations and outcomes about assessment? Dr Jae Major takes colleagues through the methods and strategies to ensure that students and academics can share their assumptions about academic text types.
May 29, 2015
What is the point of an ethics committee?
Tara and Steve get stroppy (again), pondering the nature of ethics committees - and research ethics more generally - in the neoliberal university.
Does ethnography still matter in a digital age?
Particular methods are fashionable, and then move out of fashion. Tara and Steve talk about ethnography, the disco of research methods. But as ethnography moves beyond its fame and height in the 1970s, how can it reconfigure and refresh for the 2010s?
Peta Johnston 1 - Raunching and twerking to physical cultural studies
It is time for feminist physical cultural studies. Steve and Tara introduce Peta Johnston and her doctoral thesis. Peta is interested in researching women, sexuality, bodies and digitization. Physical cultural studies provides the frame and impetus for this study. Social media provides the foundation. This exciting thesis begins now. Join us on this special journey.
May 27, 2015
Equal human worth and social justice education
What is a human 'worth'? What does equality actually mean? Dr Tace Vigliante, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, takes these questions as her focus, to develop a social justice education.
May 19, 2015
Understanding the transition to university - how can kindergarten children help us understand tertiary transition
Transitions are crucial to education. Dr Libbey Murray, from the Dubbo campus of the School of Teacher Education, explores what academics can learn from the transitional experiences of kindergarten children when thinking about first year teaching and learning in a university.
May 16, 2015
Academic misconduct series 3 - for academic managers
The calibre of higher education requires the maintenance of standards and the protection of academic integrity. Tara, in this third podcast in her academic misconduct series, offers advice to academic managers. They must manage and monitor the process with ethics, respect and care. Tara helps academic managers ensure a strong process for students, staff and the higher education sector.
Academic Misconduct Series 2 - for students
What advice can help students manage academic integrity and information literacy, or a charge of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct? Tara helps students move through an academic misconduct process and offers clear advice to enable a productive resolution.
