ERIN Activities & Events held in 2012
March 2012
The Faculty of Education and Arts Research Institute and
School of Drama Fine Art and Music would like to invite you to a Guest Seminar:
Ars Electronica: Where Art, Science Technology, Culture and Society Intersect
Presented by Horst Hörtner, Director of the Future Lab, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Horst Hörtner directs the Future Lab at the prestigious research centre Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. He is a media artist, researcher and expert in Human Computer Interaction design, holding many patents in this field. Since 1979, Ars Electronica seeks intersections and congruities, causes and effects between diverse fields of knowledge.
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WHEN: Wednesday 28 March, 1:00pm-2:30pm
WHERE: Isabella's, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au by Friday 23 March
May - December 2012
ERIN Lecture Series
The Series includes an exciting line up of national and international speakers in the areas of social justice, ICT, curriculum, equity and comparative education.
3 May (3:30pm-5pm)
Mr Raju Varanasi - Director, NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre
15 June (9:30am-11am)
Professor Raewyn Connell - University of Sydney,
Schools and Social Justice in the 21st Century
27 July (12pm-1:30pm)
Professor Peter Goodyear - University of Sydney
Designing for Learning: new opportunities for educational research
4 September (5pm – 6:30pm)
Carmel Richardson
Queering the Eylf: Using Critical Theory to Challenge and Inform Early Childhood Education and Care
19 October (12pm-1:30pm)
Professor Peter Sullivan - Monash University
Making educational research convincing to practitioners
30 November (12pm-1:30pm)
Professor Trevor Gale - Deakin University
10 Decmber (12pm-1:30pm)
Professor Karin Ronnerman
Same But Different: Leading Quality Work In Swedish Preschools
7 December (12pm-1:30pm)
Professor Lesley Andres
How Do Educational Aspirations and Expectations Influence Postsecondary Outcomes
May 2012
ERIN Lecture Series
Obtaining value from educational research - challenges and opportunities
Presented by Mr Raju Varanasi from NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre
Abstract
While the value of research to educational practice is commonly acknowledged, optimising that value is a significant challenge. In this seminar, Raju will outline the challenges of whether research necessarily ‘lags or leads’ practice, how well the interests of the sponsor are served in educational research, technology as a domain for research as well as a tool for research and what is really needed to provide insights that guide decisions in education. Research often leads to recommendations for further research but what provides the catalyst to bring the threads of research together?
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WHEN: Thursday, 3 May 3:30pm - 5:00pm
WHERE: HA96, Hunter Building, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: to Wayne.Durand@newcastle.edu.au by 1 May
JUNE 2012
Schools and Social Justice in the 21st Century
Presented by Professor Raewyn Connell from The University of Sydney
Abstract
In a neoliberal era, with the education system re-shaped to serve the needs of business and the ideology of competitive individualism, what is the relevance of social justice? In this session we will explore the secret of neoliberal education, review the inconvenient knowledge that we have about contemporary education systems, and ask about emerging patterns of inequality. We will pose some twenty-first century questions for educators: about the rationing of education, the shape of curriculum, and socially just practice in the classroom - and beyond. Click here to view Flyer
WHEN: Friday, 15 June, 9:30am - 11am
WHERE: Treehouse, Shortland Union Building, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: Wayne.Durand@newcastle.edu.au
JULY 2012
The Educational Research Institute Newcastle (ERIN) and the Comparative and International Education Group University of Newcastle (CIEGUN), supported by the University of Newcastle's Emerging Research Leaders' program (ERL) would like to invite you to a FEDUA Visiting Fellow lecture
Global Education Policy and the Problem of 'Space': experiments in comparative method
Presented by Associate Professor Stephen Carney from Roskilde University, Denmark
WHEN: Tuesday 31 July 12pm - 1:30pm
WHERE: Isabella Restaurant (upstairs), Callaghan Campus
RSVP: to Wayne.Durand@newcastle.edu.au
Abstract
Education policy research is increasingly comparative in its orientation and reach yet comparative education as a discipline has struggled to respond to developments in the related fields of anthropology and geography which suggest that we need to move beyond the study of bounded and stable education systems, levels and processes. From this perspective educational phenomena - from policy visions to practices - are conceptualized as increasingly interconnected. This has profound consequences for researching global education reform in a given context. Building on the work of Arjun Appadurai and Anna Tsing amongst others, and grounded in ethnographic work undertaken in China, Denmark, Nepal, South Korea and Zambia, I take up the challenge that we rethink space and locality via two experiments in method. The first examines processes of advanced liberalism in educational management; the second considers these processes in relation to youth subjectivities and schooling. The lecture will illustrate how particular cases are connected imaginatively and materially, how particular ‘localities’ are being produced by global flows, and how we need to think afresh about the emerging ‘global’ policy landscape that shapes our engagement with/ in education.
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JULY 2012
ERIN Lecture Series
Designing for Learning: new opportunities for educational research
Presented by Professor Peter Goodyear from The University of Sydney
WHEN: Friday, 27 July 12pm - 1:30pm
WHERE: HA96, Hunter Building, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: to Wayne.Durand@newcastle.edu.au
Abstract
In this lecture I will try to combine some insights from two areas of my current work. The first area is my ARC Laureate research program - ‘Learning, technology and design: the architecture of productive learning environments’. This attempts to give a central place, within education, to the practices of design for learning, or what might be called ‘teaching-as-design’. I argue that design involves combining multiple forms of knowledge and ways of knowing - it needs an epistemic fluency that can go unnoticed in educational research and theorising. It also involves a commitment to action (rather than just reflection or critique), and needs methods, tools and ideas for handling complexity. I also want to draw on my recent work with the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Australian Council of Deans of Education - guiding the development of a national strategy for research capacity building. Based on this experience, I would like to raise some questions about the nature of educational research and its connections to the improvement of learning and teaching.
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OCTOBER 2012
FEDUA RESEARCH INSTITUTES 2012 FORUM
All staff are invited to join us for a forum to hear from the Programme Leaders of the current and past funded research programmes about their achievements to date and the plans for the future.
The forum will conclude with a Q&A session with the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Institute Directors and an announcement about the new Strategic Networks and Capacity Building scheme in lieu of a Round 4 of funding for the Institutes Research Programmes.
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WHERE The Treehouse, Callaghan campus
WHEN Tuesday 30 October 10:30am to 1pm
RSVP by 26 October to Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au
November
ERIN PUBLIC LECTURE
NARRATIVES OF NAPLAN
presented by GREG THOMPSON, Murdoch University
WHERE University Art Gallery, Callaghan campus
WHEN Tuesday, 27 November 5pm – 6:30pm
RSVP 25 November ERIN-Research@newcastle.edu.au