Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 41

Exploring a capabilities-friendly approach to 21st century professional practice

Professor Melanie Walker, from the Free State University in South Africa, explores how our understandings of higher education transform when deploying the capabilities approach to teaching and learning.

Anne McLeod 30 - Keeping Anne out of the crack den

Steve, Anne and Tara are back together again, celebrating the completion of Anne's first chapter and foreshadowing her next chapter.  We discuss methods, ethics and the role of curriculum studies in the formulation of professionalism, and the teaching profession.

 

Put another way, why is Anne using Unobtrusive Research Methods rather than conducting a participant observation of crack use?

Theorizing the work around

Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'

Mick Winter 15 - Writing through the intellectual hangover

Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter.

They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter.  How to handle an intellectual hangover?  Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.

Bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms

Dr Jae Major explores the role, function and place of bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms.  With specific attention to Aotearoa/New Zealand, strategies are offered to enable bilingualism to flourish.

Moving on up - physical cultural studies in third tier cities

How can policy makers and local councils encourage movement in small cities?  Leanne McRae, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore these third tier cities and the benefits of thinking about physical cultural studies in a way that integrates the analogue and the digital, the tourist and the resident.

Mike Kent offers advice to mid-career researchers

Dr Mike Kent, from Internet Studies at Curtin University, talks with Tara about his career and how to build momentum and success during a challenging time for the higher education sector.

Disability, mental illness and elearning

How are men and women with mental illnesses being supported through higher education and elearning?  Dr Mike Kent presents the results from a recent survey conducted with students from Open University Australia.  These results are startling and challenging, questioning the practices and protocols of university teaching and learning.

What is the role of creative arts in teacher education?

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about the place of the creative arts in teacher education.  They discuss the disparate streams of the discipline area, but also the value for teachers in understanding voice and movement.

Anne McLeod 29 - What does Anne see from the balcony?

Anne and Tara discuss the particularly difficult challenges of writing a doctorate in a rapidly changing policy environment for early childhood education.