Education, Equity and Social Identities Associated Events
SOCIAL EQUITY FORUM
15th May 2009
The University of Melbourne, through the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, is establishing a number of large inter-disciplinary Research Institutes to tackle problems of major social significance. This initial forum is to discuss how the area of social equity might be shaped as a University Research Institute, and to invite all researchers with an interest to attend, or, if they are unable to be there, to signal their interest in this initiative.
Three Research Institutes have recently been established: Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute (Interim Director: Professor Ruth Fincher); Melbourne Energy Institute (Interim Director: Professor Mike Sandiford); and Melbourne Institute of Materials (Inaugural Director: Professor Steven Prawer).
Interest in establishing a Research Institute on Social Equity will be canvassed and questions to do with scope, benefits, focus, structure, and research agenda discussed. The aim of such an Institute would not be to replace existing centres and activities, but to build on them and help create new opportunities for research and collaboration. The forum will include 3-4 brief presentations and a longer plenary discussion to seek ideas and feedback from colleagues on this proposal.
Date and time: Friday, May 15th 2009, 9.30am-1.00pm
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
| 9.45am | Coffee, registration for a 10.00 start |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome and introductions Professor Peter Rathjen, (DVC-Research), A/Prof Julie McLeod (Melbourne Graduate School of Education), Dr. Jeremy Moss (Social Justice Institute) |
| 10.15-11.15 | Presentations 3x15 mins each with questions and discussion from the floor |
| 11.15- 11.30 | Short break – refreshments |
| 11.30-12.45 | Plenary |
| 1.00-1.30pm | Lunch |
If you have any questions or comments regarding this forum, please contact the convenors – either Julie McLeod (jemcleod@unimelb.edu.au) or Jeremy Moss (jmoss@unimelb.edu.au)
All university staff are warmly invited to attend.
RSVP (your interest, and whether you will be attending this forum): By May 8th to Eleanor Brignell, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, eleanorb@unimelb.edu.au
Book Launch: Youth, Health and Welfare: the cultural politics of education and wellbeing AND Young People Making a Life
5 December 2008
The Youth Research Centre announces two new books…
- Youth, Health and Welfare: the cultural politics of education and wellbeing,
Johanna Wyn (2008) Oxford University Press, Melbourne - Young People Making a Life, Ani Wierenga (2008) Palgrave MacMillan,
Houndsmills, Basingstoke
Professor Field Rickards, Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education invites you to join him at the launch of two important new books by Professor Johanna Wyn & Dr Ani Wierenga
Speaker: Professor Rob White
Time and Location:
Friday December 5,
from 5-7pm
Public Policy Lecture Theatre Foyer
University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
(Cnr Leicester Street)
RSVP by November 28
yrc-info@unimelb.edu.au or 8344 9633
Book Launch, Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
24 November
Edited by Christine Sinclair, Neryl Jeanneret and John O’Toole. Published by Oxford University Press. Contributions by the editors and Jane Bird, Robert Brown, Jan Deans, Kate Donelan, Kelly Freebody, Julia Green, Wesley Imms, Jo Raphael, Andrew Swainston, Marnee Watkins and Sarah Young.
Education in the Arts is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of visual arts, drama, dance, music - in fact all the creative and performing arts - in primary and early childhood education, within a creative and integrated approach to learning. Written in everyday language and enhanced by applicable examples, this comprehensive text:
- links theory and research to teaching practice; encourages reflection upon teaching practice through real case studies;
- allows teacher education students to apply what they have learned to different curriculum contexts; and,
- provides direction for new teachers to help implement and participate in integrated arts education programmes in schools
- provides well-grounded practical assistance to all teachers seeking to expand their use of the arts in their classrooms
The book includes background theory, case studies and exemplars for practice contributed by all staff in the Arts Education program in Artistic and Creative Education (ACE), in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. The managing editors and main contributors are Christine Sinclair, Senior Lecturer in Writing, School of Business and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology and formerly ACE, Neryl Jeanneret, Senior Lecturer in Music Education, ACE, and John O’Toole, Chair of Arts Education, ACE.
The book launch is jointly presented by Artistic and Creative Education and Education, Equity and Social Change.
For further information about the book, please click here to view the Oxford University Press Flyer
RSVP:
Please register your attendance with Marie-Claire Moloney. for catering purposes.
Time and Location:
This event will be held in The Gryphon Gallery: 1888 Building, Parkville Campus on Monday 24 November between 5:15pm - 7:00pm
CEIEC 2008 Conference
Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 8: Young citizen(s), New Citizenship(s)
13th - 15th November 2008
Registration
- Full registration is inclusive of GST and includes: teas, lunches, all conference sessions, conference opening & book of abstracts.
- All prices are inclusive of GST.
- Late registrations will be accepted. Please email education-ceiec-conference@unimelb.edu.au
- Cancellation fees: to 15 September 2008 - $50, 16 September-15 October 2008 - $100. No refunds from 16 October 2008.
- Students must submit a copy of their Student ID card showing proof of full time study status with their payment form (a letter from your University Faculty will also be acceptable).
Please download the registration form.
Send form/s:
- by mail to:
Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (CEIEC)
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
East Wing Elisabeth Murdoch Building
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010 Australia
- or fax to: +61 3 9347 9380
Theodore Fink Memorial Lecture
'Practising Multiculturalism: Racialised Identities in Twenty-First Century Education'
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Presenter: Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
Time: 6.00pm - 7.00pm
Venue: JH Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building, The University of Melbourne
Abstract:
Questions of multiculturalism in education are longstanding in culturally plural societies. Professor Ann Phoenix will discuss the history of present multicultural debates and differences in educational attainment and experience. The lecture considers how experiences of multicultural education help to construct children and young people’s identities. It focuses on research from Australia and the UK and includes the narratives of children and adults from minority ethnic groups. It argues that schools ethnicise and racialise identities as well as producing gendered and social class identities. A consideration of the practice of multiculturalism thus illuminates key issues for twenty-first century societies, ones that Theodore Fink himself may well have believed crucial.
Biography:
Ann Phoenix is Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her research includes racialised and gendered identities; masculinities; consumption and the transition to motherhood. She currently holds an ESRC research professorship on ‘Transforming experiences: Re-conceptualising identities and ‘non-normative’ childhoods’.
Her publications include:
- Young Mothers? (1991) Cambridge: Polity Press;
- Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, (1993/2002 with Barbara Tizard);
- Young Masculinities (2002, with Stephen Frosh and Rob Pattman);
- Social Psychology Matters (2007 edited with Wendy Hollway and Helen Lucey) and
- Parenting and Ethnicity (2007 with Fatima Husain).