Centre for Research in Education
- Past Events 2012 -
CREd Seminar Series
Throughout the year the Centre for Research in Education (CREd) holds workshops and seminars with presentations by members of the various CREd Research Groups as well as visiting scholars from interstate and overseas. Such events provide unique opportunities to keep abreast of current research and progress within the various fields.
The CREd Seminar Series continue to provide opportunities for:
a) Academics to share what they are up to in their research projects: such as
work in progress, problematisations, issues with analysis and theory building,
methodological and ethical quandries
b) Post graduate students to present their latest writing to a supportive
audience
c) Visiting researchers to talk about their research work.
Below are links to various papers, presentations, audio and video files of CREd Seminars held throughout 2011.
Activism for Peace: Transforming lives with lessons from Nepal
Dr Chintamani Yogi
Audio file available - click here - this one takes a while to start!!
February 24th 2012
Dr. Yogi will describe his work as part of the
following programs in Nepal and elaborate on his humanitarian vision and goals
Hindu Vidyapeeth-Nepal (HVP) is an educational institute run on a non-profit basis. HVP aims to produce a generation of capable, dynamic, committed and thoughtful individuals who would devote their lives for world peace. HVP emphasizes the development in students of ideals such as love, peace, harmony, tolerance, fraternity and non-violence.
Peace Service Center (Shanti Sewa Ashram) provides programs such as a Children Study Centre, Women Education Centre, Women Training Centre, Seeds of Peace. SSA was founded for the promotion of peace as a reflection of Mr. C.M. Yogi’s effort to bring organizations working in several areas of the society into a common forum.
The Youth Society for Peace was founded by youth and aims at bringing social harmony and transformation by fostering peace in society. It focuses on the younger generation's potential and thus works specifically to promote peace through active participation of youths.
The Children’s Peace Home based in Dang has been serving orphans, war victims, destitute and homeless children of Nepal by providing them with free education, food and accommodation.
Dr. Yogi is the:
- Founding Chairperson of the Shanti Sewa Ashram (Peace Service Centre Nepal)
- Founder of Values Education in Nepal
- Founding Principal of Hindu Vidyapeeth School Kathmandu
Dr Yogi works with students and youth to develop values that serve humanity
Book Launch - Changing the paradigm: Education as the key to a socially inclusive future
Edited by Tom Stehlik & Jan Patterson
Thursday March 1st
Education has long been recognised as the key to addressing
intergenerational and social disadvantage, but the notion of a socially
inclusive future and changing the paradigm of the established
system of schooling in Australia is the particular concern of this book.
Authors from academic, policy and practice settings, drawing on the
experience of South Australia’s Social Inclusion Initiative School Retention
Action Plan, provide examples and ideas for ensuring that the benefits of a
quality education system are available to all children and young people in
Australia. Contributors include: Peter Bishop, Marie Brennan, Helen Dolan,
Phillipa Duigan, Robert Hattam, Katherine Hodgetts, Susanne Koen, Alison
Mackinnon, Jillian Miller, Patrick O’Leary, & Simon Robb. With a foreword by
Emeritus Professor Alan Reid AM.
The book is presented in two parts:
- Challenging the present: context and policies
- Foregrounding the future: communities and case studies
- What young people are telling us about schooling and their lives
- Social inclusion and school retention: the South Australian experience
- What it takes to engage young people and the importance for them of experiencing success in learning
- Joined-up working to improve educational outcomes for young people who are marginalised and socially excluded
- Shaping systems, policy and practice to increase learning opportunities and more equitable outcomes for all young people.
- Challenging the paradigm: education and social inclusion. Jan Patterson
- Road maps or global positioning systems? Young people’s lives in the twenty-first century: preparing for a global future through education and training. Alison Mackinnon
- Listen to me, I’m still leaving: young people’s perspectives on schooling. Robert Hattam
- Senior secondary study as a part-time phenomenon? Implications for policy and practice. Katherine Hodgetts & Marie Brennan
- We know what to do but we don’t always do it: aligning policy and practice. Jan Patterson
- Evolution of Aboriginal education solutions at the ‘cultural interface’: Educators’ capacity to respond to the learning priorities of Aboriginal families. Helen Dolan & Jillian Miller
- Relationships, participation and support: necessary components for inclusive learning environments and (re)engaging learners. Tom Stehlik
- Re-engaging young people in learning: the ICAN experience. Susanne Koen & Phillipa Duigan
- Caring for hope: the importance of hope for socially excluded young people. Patrick O’Leary, Peter Bishop, Alison Mackinnon & Simon Robb
- Conclusion: changing the paradigm – moving forward to more equitable educational outcomes for all young people. Tom Stehlik