Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 42
March 10, 2015
Early school-based parent involvement and student achievement
Does parental involvement have an impact on student achievement? While the answer to this question may seem self evident, actually the results are much more ambivalent. Dr Graham Daniel, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, presents an interim report on this research project he shares with Dr Audrey Wang.
Why do you want to become a teacher?
With all the pressure and attacks on teacher education, it is a provocative but useful question to ask, why would anyone want to become a teacher? Tara asks the new generation of teacher education students at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus. Their answers are inspiring and aspirational.
February 17, 2015
Thinking Ear
How would your personal and professional life change if you concentrated on what you hear, rather than what you see? Tara answers that question and shares her presentation for the 2015 researchED conference in Sydney.
February 4, 2015
Tara's ten tips for success at university
The academic year is about to commence. Tara offers 10 tips to orient students into higher education. Academics hold assumptions about our students. This podcast tells students about our expectations and some strategies to meet them.
February 2, 2015
Tara Brabazon's Digital Dieting - Ashgate books that have impacted on their field
Ashgate publishers have described Digital Dieting as one of their books that have made an impact on the scholarly field. Tara talks about how this book was written, its context, interdisciplinarity and its audience.
January 31, 2015
Mick Winter 14 - Consciousness (man)
Tara and Mick continue to hack through morphic fields. They explore how theorists of morphic fields define and apply consciousness. Yes, this is another hippy-inflected podcast.
January 25, 2015
Mick Winter 13 - Let's get Mick out of the jungle
What happens when a PhD student goes deeply into a research literature and needs to get out of it again? Mick and Tara talk about the morphic fields literature and how to hook this research back into his doctoral thesis.
Anne McLeod 28 - Time to get stroppy
Anne and Tara talk through the changing context and environment of early childhood education, and the relationship between 'a service' and 'learning.'
January 16, 2015
The sounds of food
What is the sound of food? Tara shares the assignment from one of her courses in the Masters of Gastronomic Tourism that probes the sociology of the senses, with attention to the relationship between food and sonic culture.
December 30, 2014
Theoretical times - claustropolitanism
Do you feel closed in? Do you want to leave the planet because of war, terrorism, violence and xenophobia? The concept that captures this tendency is claustropolitanism. Steve and Tara discuss claustropolitanism, and the popular cultural texts that capture it: Top of the Lake, Breaking Bad, The Tunnel, Orange is the New Black and The Fall.
