CREEW'S News
November 2006
Hello everybody
another year rolls by and, sadly, this will be the last CREEW's News for 2006. Thank you, all CREEW members, for your support of this publication over the last year, by way of your ongoing contributions and feed-back. We hope the newsletter has helped provide the collegial and 'human' support that reflects the inclusive, embracing ethos that underpins CREEW's success as a research group.
I try to keep my welcomes short and unobtrusive, so please keep sending in news about your activities as they happen and we will save them for the new year. Good luck, health and happiness to you all until then.
- Research Grants
- Publications
- Conferences and Presentations
- Professional Practice
- Seminars
- HRISS News
- Future CREEW's News
Research Grants
Congratulations to all CREEW members for the following funding successes:
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Sue Gelade has won funding was in the latest round of the National VET Research & Evaluation Program, in the project 2 category 'Matching VET offerings to regional development skill needs'. I got $84K (inc GST) for a proposal entitled: 'Skilling for development: Matching needs and learning in regional Australia'. The research will involve a colleague from QUT, Dr Tricia Fox from the School of Learning & Professional Studies. The research will triangulate data from websites, regional providers and regional development boards. They plan to visit the regional development board sites of Limestone Coast, SA and Cairns Qld. The project should run over about 10 months.
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Judy Gill and Alan Reid won a $10,500 seeding grant from HRISS for a project on international approaches to civic education.
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Roger Harris has just been advised that the new Rail CRC application has been successfully short listed to interview stage.
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Alan Reid won an ARC grant of $250,000 over three years. The ARC Linkage Project is entitled: Education Investment in Australian Schooling: Serving Public Purposes. His research partners are Professor Jack Keating (Melbourne University); Professor Bill Mulford (University of Tasmania); and Associate Professor Neil Cranston (University of Queensland). (Amount Awarded: 2007 $ 60,000, 2008: $ 130,000, 2009: $ 60,000; Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): Australian Government Primary Principals Association Education Foundation.)
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Publications
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Harris, R & Simons, M (2006) VET practitioners working with private enterprises: a third space?, Journal of Workplace Learning, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 478-494. For more information, click here.
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Glenna Lear has contributed an autobiographical chapter titled A late blooming: A new career in later life for the forthcoming book '"Coming back: The mature-aged students guide to university study ', edited by Robert Cantwell and Jill Scevak, School of Education, University of Newcastle. It is due to be launched prior to Semester 1, 2007.
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Rosie Le Cornu and Judy Peters have had their paper entitled 'Perceptions of 'significant change' in school cultures in South Australia' accepted for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management.
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The third edition of Teaching: Challenges and dilemmas by Susan Groundwater-Smith, Robyn Ewing and Rosie Le Cornu has just been published by Thomson Learning Aust.
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An article by Helen Raduntz, 'Education for social change or for capital crisis resolution' has been published in the UK eJournal, Information for Social Change No. 23, Summer 2006, in the special issue on Education for social change. It can be retrieved here.
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Reid, A (2006), 'Democracy, social justice and senior secondary education: Reflections on undemocratic schooling' in Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, Vol. 27. No. 4. pp 551-562.
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Reid, A (2006), Is consistency the only rationale for national curriculum collaboration? in Curriculum Perspectives, Vol. 26. No. 3., pp 66-71.
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Reid, A (2006), Review of Cheng et al 'Values education for citizens in the new century', in Citizenship Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2. No. 2.
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Silver lining! While Roger and Linda's article, 'Interrogating the notion of transition' was not one of the seven chosen (from 45 abstracts) for a special edition of the International Journal of Lifelong Education looking at transitions from education to work, they have been invited to contribute to a book on the same topic.
Conferences and Presentations
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Rosie Le Cornu presented at the British Educational Research Association conference at Warwick University, 6-9 September, on behalf of Judy Peters and the DECS Learning to Learning team, in a joint symposium with colleagues from Newcastle University (UK) and Durham University. The symposium was entitled Learning to learn: a focus on school and teacher learning.
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Rosie Le Cornu presented at the European Conference on Educational Research at the University of Geneva, 13-16 September, with Assoc. Prof. Robyn Ewing from The University of Sydney on Transforming knowledge in preservice professional experiences.
Professional Practice
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From October 16 19, Alan Reid was an invited external member of the Panel reviewing the education programs in the School of Education at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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On Monday October 9, Alan Reid was interviewed about approaches to national curriculum on Radio Nationals 'Life Matters' program. Alan also participated in an hour of discussion and talkback on 'Life Matters' on Friday 13 October.
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Seminar Programme
Helen Raduntz, Susanne Owen, Graham McDonagh and Robert Crotty presented stimulating seminars at the CREEW Seminar and Colloquium Programme during October and November. Many thanks to all those who helped make the event a success this year. Peter and Miriam work like beavers to assemble and stage a varied and successful seminar programme each year. This completes the programme for 2006 but, no doubt, Peter will be seeking out new presenters for 2007.
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HRISS News
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Congratulations to HRISS Researchers have won three ARC grants to begin in 2007, together with two ARC Linkage grants for 20062009 which were announced earlier in the year.
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Visiting HRISS in September on Australia-India Council Australian Studies Fellowships were Prof Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay and Mr Angshuman Kar, both from the Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India. Professor Bandyopadhyays research project is titled Curriculum Development: Redefining the Australian Studies Syllabus at Indian Universities. The aim of the project is to form a curriculum derived from the historical and material context of Australian studies and to develop a model curriculum of Australian studies that will address all major themes and issues relating to Australian studies. Mr Kars project is titled Petitions as Culture Texts: Mapping the Aboriginal Protest since 1796. He aims to develop a book that will collect and anthologise all major petitions available and create a critical awareness among researchers of Aboriginal studies.
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Future CREEW's News
CREEW's News is your newsletter, so please keep us informed of all your activities, sending all contributions to Linda Rainey.