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Education PG Research Conference
The UTS: Education 2008 Post Graduate Student Research Conference took place Friday May 30 and Saturday May 31 2008. Titled "Open-ing Research Space-s" the conference featured:
- 26 papers by doctoral students in Education, Humanities & Social Sciences, and International Studies
- 9 poster presentations by doctoral students and research centres
- Key note address by Professor David Boud, Dean, University Graduate School
- Readers Theatre illustrating paradigm perspectives on tackling the research topic: "the impact of earth hour on learning and change", with our thespian colleagues Jenny Hammond, Tony Holland, Stephen Muecke, Rick Flowers, Peter Aubusson & John Buchanan
- Practical workshops on qualitative analysis software (by our doctoral students Michelle Salmona and Marion Burford) and on thesis writing (by Sandy Schuck)
- A panel of recent graduates including Donna Rooney, Emi Otsuji & Damian Maher, shared their wisdom and practical tips on completing a research degree
Sponsored by the Associate Dean Clive Chappell, and organised by students Ros Carter, Maria Chisaro, Michelle Melick and Dick Audley with assistance from Kitty te Riele, the conference was by all accounts a huge success: informative, collegial and entertaining.
Click to view the conference Photos
Paulo Freire
May 2nd was the 11th anniversary of the death of Paulo Freire. Freire’s work continues to inspire educators across the world, and new Institutes, books and courses emerge to review and re-invent his work.
Below are some of these resources:
On video
Culture, Politics & Pedagogy: A Conversation with Henry Giroux about Freire’s influence on him, and Giroux’s views on George Bush’s notorious ‘No Child Left Behind’ Bill. A 4 minute talk available on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdVCnTTqXA
Paolo Friere & Seymour Papert’s video on the “Future of School”
http://www.paulofreire.ufpb.br/paulofreire/Files/O_futuro_da_escola_parte_i.mpg
Text
Pedagogy of the Oppressed – its first three chapters available in English at
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/subject/education/freire/pedagogy/index.htm
On the Web
Paolo Freire Institute, Brazil - http://www.paulofreire.org/
Paulo Freire Institute – UCLA - http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
Paulo Freire Institute of South Africa – University of KwaZulu-Natal
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cae/pfi/index.htm
Paulo Freire Research Center – University of Tampere, Finland
http://paulofreirefinland.org/?page_id=2
Paulo Freire Institute, Malta
http://www.jesuit.org.mt/justice/freire.html
Paulo Freire Kooperation, Germany
http://www.freire.de/sprachen/english.html
Conference
OISE, University of Toronto
Remembering Freire, Reinventing Freire Conference
2 May 2007
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:uodtxLAUt1AJ:tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/pdfs/Remembering
Research Grants
Learning and Development for Sustainable Health Futures -- UTS Challenge Grant
This program of research is being conducted by a trans-disciplinary team of educational and health researchers from UTS, the health system including the health bureaucracy, and key consumer agencies. It is addressed to the need for a coherent educational framework for building sustainability in health care. Such a framework needs to be effectively inter-professional, trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral. This research explores the centrality of learning for health professionals, consumers of health services, for programs and systems, to build shared capacity to meet future health needs.
It focuses on the critical role of consumers in the achievement of effective partnerships with the health system, and on the critical need for wide-ranging collaborative research into the capabilities and capacities required for all stakeholders in building and sustaining these partnerships.
There is international policy and practice consensus that a more active engagement by citizens in managing their own health will be essential to the financial, social and workforce sustainability of the healthcare system. What is also well recognised and well documented are the many and complex barriers that constrain such developments. There is, however, a lack of research establishing the competencies and capacities required for the sustainable ‘co-production’ of health by citizens in collaboration with health systems. This research program will investigate the learning and development dimensions of building co-productive capacity in citizens, health professionals and health systems.
Recent Publications
INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
It was good to see that in the recently published (2007) International Handbook of English Language Teaching (Springer, 2 volumes, US$495 !), there were three articles by UTS authors: Chapter 1: 'ELT and colonialism' by Alastair Pennycook; Chapter 42: 'Mediating academic language learning through classroom discourse' by Pauline Gibbons; and Chapter 52: 'Extending our understanding of spoken discourse' by Diana Slade (and Michael McCarthy). This is evidence of the significant esteem in which the UTS work in English language teaching is held internationally (only the University of Hong Kong and OISE/ University of Toronto, where the two editors work, and the University of British Columbia, had greater representation in this major international pulication). Congratulations to the authors.
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GLOBAL ENGLISHES AND TRANSCULTURAL FLOWS
Alastair Pennycook
'Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows is remarkable for the depth of its insight and the breadth of its scholarship. Drawing on theories of performativity and transculturation, Alastair Pennycook brings a fresh perspective to debates on the relationship between local and global cultural practices. Written with eloquence and style, the book is a “must read” for applied linguists, language educators, and cultural studies enthusiasts.'
Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alastair Pennycook is Professor in language and literacy at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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BRIDGING DISCOURSES IN THE ESL CLASSROOM
Students, Teachers and Researchers
Pauline Gibbons
Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom examines the interactions between learners and teachers in content-based classrooms. It aims to identify patterns of discourse which support both second language development and curriculum learning, and the pedagogical contexts in which they occur. These interactional patterns are ‘bridging’ discourses in that they build on the everyday language and prior experiences of the student in the process of developing the specialized academic registers of school. The study examines the use of these bridging discourses in two case study classrooms to show how they offer affordances for learning.
This book puts forward an innovative new approach to the analysis of classroom discourse. Drawing on systemic functional linguistics and sociocultural theory, it argues that the significance of classroom talk for second language development can only be understood when it is examined within its situational, historical and sociocultural context. The book is recommended for academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and education.
Pauline Gibbons is an Associate Professor in language and literacy at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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