Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 40
May 15, 2015
Academic misconduct series 1 - for academic staff
Tara presents the first session in her series exploring academic misconduct in our universities. This professional development session is geared for academics. Teachers in our universities are the first responders to academic misconduct. But what is the role of an academic in cases of plagiarism and collusion? Tara talks through this role, alongside presenting the risks and challenges that flood any case of academic misconduct.
Academic misconduct series - introduction
Tara introduces her professional development series on academic misconduct. This introductory session defines the terms 'academic misconduct,' 'academic integrity,' 'plagiarism' and 'collusion' to reveal their role in enabling quality and excellence in higher education.
May 8, 2015
Ashgate books that transformed their field - Tara Brabazon and The University of Google
The University of Google has been recognized by Ashgate as a book that transformed its field. Tara talks about this monograph, sharing how it was written and how it activated new relationships between cultural studies, media studies and information literacy.
A weblink to this book is here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/978075467...
Steve Redhead's Football and Accelerated Culture - This Modern Sporting Life
How has football transformed through globalization and digitization? Steve Redhead talks with Tara about his new book for Routledge, Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life.
For further details about the book plese refer to the website for this book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/97...
Anne McLeod 31 - Dancing to Level 42
Probably the greatest challenge in the completion of a PhD is reaching - and sustaining - the intellectual level of a doctorate. It is particularly tough to keep the level high while teaching undergraduate students. Anne McLeod, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss this challenge. How do we stretch and move from teaching first year students through to high quality doctoral research?
Mick Winter 17 - The Purge
Why was there a riot in Baltimore? Were memes involved? Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.
April 30, 2015
The value of music education
Why study music? Tara Brabazon talks with Oriana Zanon about music education. What is the value of music to pre-service teacher education students?
April 29, 2015
Tara talks with Leanne about cultural studies, universities and life
In a provocative reversal, Leanne interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond. Leanne is interested in the past, present and future of cultural studies and her questions probe the effectiveness of this paradigm in a tough era for higher education.
April 28, 2015
The role of performing and creative arts in building community partnerships
Anne McLeod, from CSU's School of Teacher Education Dubbo campus, talks about the role of the creative and performing arts in teacher education. She shows the significance of community partnerships and the value - at the level of skill and knowledge - in enabling the creative arts in higher education.
April 25, 2015
Mick Winter 16 - Mick, Steve, Tara and Oxford
Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.
