Spotlight On… International

International Students Get a Taste of Indigenous Australia

On Monday 25th March a group of International students from the Faculty of Education and Arts visited the University's Wollotuka Institute, to find out more about Australia's Indigenous heritage. Staff at Wollotuka spoke to our students about Aboriginal history and culture, and this was followed by demonstrations of didgeridoo-playing and traditional dancing. The students also had the chance to join in the dancing and attempt to play the didgeridoo.

The students had an enjoyable and informative time, and on the strength of this, such visits may become a regular part of the Faculty's program to provide an enriching student experience for our International students. The photo shows Joe Griffin from Wollotuka demonstrating the didgeridoo.

Jilin Students Arrive

The Faculty has received its first students through a credit transfer agreement with Jilin University, which is one of the leading higher education institutions in China. The two students, He Xiaotong and Qu Yan, are enrolled in the Master of Applied Linguistics program, and will be studying with us in Semester 1, 2013. The Faculty looks forward to welcoming more students from Jilin in the coming semesters. The photo shows our two Jilin students with Assistant Dean International, Dr Christo Moskovsky.

Professor Visits Shanghai

This month Associate Professor Roland Boer was a guest of Fudan University's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Marxism Abroad located in Shanghai. He was also one of the organisers of the Religion and Radicalism Conference held in Herrnhut, Saxony (Germany) on March 22-24. Professor Boer's collaborator Professor Lu Shaochen from Fudan, a 2012 Faculty Visiting Fellow, was also involved.

US Academics Visit FEDUA

Visiting US academics Dr Bruce King (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Associate Professor Peter Youngs (Michigan State University) were guests of ERIN and the School of Education in March.  They presented two seminars:  'How Organisation Capacity and Program Coherence Support School and Teacher' and 'Ratching-up Rounds: How Professional Development can Enhance Teaching for Intellectual Quality'.