Adaptive Knowledge Production
Programme Leader:
Chief Investigator(s):
Professor Sid Bourke; Professor Stephen Crump; Professor John O'Connor; Assoc. Prof. Shen Chen; Dr. Robert Cantwell; Dr. Kathryn Homles; Dr. Margaret Kiley; Dr. Eva Petersen; Dr. Jill Scevak; Dr. Kathleen Butler
Summary and significance of programme:
Universities are a critical element in the nation's knowledge infrastructure through knowledge production and professional development in what is now recognised as a context of uncertainty and rapid change. This programme foregrounds knowledge production and seeks to examine to what extent educational conditions and processes, including their assessment and evaluation, build capacity to approach knowledge adaptively. We advance that the latter is both an education phenomenon to be understood and a goal to be articulated. In linked projects across four areas: Research Training, Higher Education, Professionalism and Cultural Variation the programme explores the nature, development and expression of Adaptive Knowledge Production.
Publications
Barcan, A. (2011). From New Left to Factional Left: Fifty Years of Student Activism at Sydney University. Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN: 9781921509889
Bourke, S. & Holbrook, A. (2010). Preparing for a career as a researcher. (pp.110-119) in R. Cantwell & J. Scevak (Eds). An academic Life; A handbook for new academics. Melbourne: ACER Press, 99 110 -119. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Cantwell, R. (2010). The nature of academic learning. In R. Cantwell & J. Scevak, J. (Eds). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, ACER, pp. 25-34. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Cantwell, R. & Scevak, J. (Eds). (2010). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, ACER, 193 pgs. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081
Cantwell, R., Scevak, J., & Parkes, R. (2010). Aligning intellectual development with curriculum, instruction & assessment. In R. Cantwell & J. Scevak, J. (Eds). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, ACER, pp. 16-24. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Cantwell, R., Scevak, J., Bourke, S. & Holbrook, A. (2011). Individual differences that affect the quality of learning in doctoral candidates. In M. Lawson & J. Kirby (Eds.). The quality of learning: Dispositions, instruction, and mental structures. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Crump, S. (2010). Academic administration: Becoming involved. In R. Cantwell & J. Scevak, J. (Eds). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, ACER, pp. 140-149. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Crump, S. & Twyford, K. (2010). Opening Their Eyes: E-Learning for Rural and Isolated Communities in Australia. In K. Schafft & A.Youngblood (Eds.) Rural Education for the Twenty-first Century: Identity, Place and Community in a Globalising World. Penn State University Press: Pennsylvania, pp. 210-231.
Chen, S. & Sit, H. W. (2010). A comparative study on the responses by international students towards the teaching strategies used in an Australian university, The International Journal of Learning, 16, (9), 495-504.
Dunphy, B., Dunphy, S., Cantwell, R., Bourke, S & Flemming, M. (2010). Evidence-based practice and Affect: The impact of physician attitudes on outcomes associated with clinical reasoning and decision-making. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 10, 56-64.
Dunphy, B., Cantwell, R., Bourke, S & Flemming, M. Smith, B., Joseph, K. & Dunphy, S., (2010). Cognitive elements in clinical decision-making: Toward a cognitive model for medical education and understanding clinical reasoning, Advances in Health Science Education, 15, 229-250.
Eacott, S. & Holmes, K. (2010). Leading reform in mathematics education: solving a complex equation, Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 12, (2).
Fricker, J., Kiley, M., Townsend, G., & Trevitt, C. (2011). Professionalism: What is it, why should we have it and how can we achieve it? Australian Dental Journal, 56, (1), 92-96.
Gosper, M., McNeill, M., Phillips, R., Preston, G., Woo, K., & Green, D. (2010). Web-based lecture technologies and learning and teaching: a study of change in four Australian universities. ALT-J Research in Learning Technology, 18, (3), 251-263.
Grushka. K. (2010). Conceptualising visual learning as an embodied and performative pedagogy for all classrooms. Encounters on Education, 11, 13-23.
Grushka, K. (2010). Montage as visual art research: Identities, images and meaning. Australian Art Education, 33, (1), 72-91.
Grushka, K. (2010). Valuing visual learning as self-narrative.: Self-narrative and embodied knowing in the post-compulsory visual art classroom: Voices of parents, students and teachers. Australian Art Education, InSEA Special Edition.
Grushka, K. & Donnelly, D. (2010). Digital technologies and performative pedagogies: Repositioning the visual. Digital Culture and Education (DCE), 2, (1), 83-102.
Kiley, M. (2011). Developments in research supervisor training: Causes and responses. Studies in Higher Education, 36, (6).
Kiley, M., Boud, D., Manathunga, C. & Cantwell, R. (2011) Honouring the incomparable: Honours in Australian universities, Higher Education. OnlineFirst, DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9409-z. Available at: http://springerlink.com/content/v317303746444350/
Kiley, M., & Cumming, J. (2010). Developing skills for research learning: Right ways and real ways. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving Student Learning: For the Twenty-First Century Learner. The Proceedings of the 17th Improving Student Learning symposium, 7-9 Sept, 2009, Imperial College, London: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. (Chapter 5- 11). ISBN: 1 873576 79 3
Kiley, M., & Wisker, G. (2010). Learning to be a researcher: The concepts and crossings. In J. H. F. Meyer, R. Land & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning. Rotterdam: Sense. 399-414
Morpeth, N. (2009). The fluidity of the past and the present: Historians’ ways of perceiving/understanding-Part 1, Teaching History, 43, (4) 18-25.
Paltridge, B., Starfield, S., Ravelli, L. & Nicholson,S. (2011). Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts: Issues and debates. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 30, (2), 88-101.
Preston, G., Phillips, R., Gosper, M., McNeill, M., Woo, K. & Green, D. (2010). Web-based lecture technologies: Highlighting the changing nature of teaching and learning. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26, (6), 717-728.
Scevak, J. & Cantwell, R. (2010). Some concluding comments. In R. Cantwell & J. Scevak, (Eds). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, pp. 192-193. ACER, ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Scevak, J. (2010). Lectures. In R. Cantwell & J. Scevak (Eds). An academic life: A handbook for new academics. Melbourne, ACER, pp. 45-54. ISBN-13: 978-0864319081.
Shaw, K., Holbrook, A. & Bourke, S. (2013). Student experience of final-year undergraduate research projects: an exploration of ‘research preparedness’. Studies in Higher Education, 36, (6) Online 2011.
Sit, H. W & Chen, S. (2010). The teaching strategies for advanced studies in English language teacher education. The International Journal of Learning, 17, (6), 485-500.
StGeorge, J., Holbrook, A., & Cantwell, R. (accepted 2011). Learning patterns in music practice: Links between disposition, practice strategies and outcomes. Accepted for Music Education Research.