Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Episodes
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Aug 29, 2015 • 18min
Skyping the PhD
Tara and Steve reflect on their use of Skype in the supervision of PhD students. They discuss Skype's use as a synchronous and asynchronous tool, and its specific value for busy postgraduates, busy supervisors and regional education.
Aug 29, 2015 • 8min
Mick Winter 21 - What Mick did on his holidays
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the value of taking a break - taking a holiday - in the midst of a doctorate.
Aug 17, 2015 • 9min
Anne McLeod 34 - Debbie doesn't do deconstruction
Anne, Steve and Tara continue their Derrida journey. Anne recognizes the best use of deconstruction for her project.
Aug 17, 2015 • 53min
Developing pre-service teachers' capacity to deliver local Aboriginal Cultural Education Programmes
Dr Bev Moriarty and Ms Maria Bennet present an innovative pilot of a cultural education programme for first year students.
Aug 6, 2015 • 7min
Mark Brown 1 - Compositional systems and movement systems
Tara introduces our new doctoral student, Mark Brown. Mark's PhD is developing a new way of thinking about movement and music, inverting the conventional relationship to create object (body) triggered compositions.
Aug 5, 2015 • 50min
Reading the higher education literature - how do I know what to read and include in a learning and teaching manuscript
Dr Deb Clarke helps early career SoTL (Scholarship of Learning and Teaching) scholars to manage the learning and teaching literature.
Aug 1, 2015 • 15min
Rebooting music education in the central west
Tara talks with the music educator and music education consultant Oriana Zanon and the CSU School of Teacher Education Secretary Anthony Wallis about the major changes being enacted to music education at the University. They discuss the current challenges facing music education in Australia, and how a new future and new opportunities are emerging for teacher education students in and through music.
Jul 27, 2015 • 57min
Small places / big ideas
Tara Brabazon introduces third tier cities. These small urban environments confront particular challenges and opportunities. Tara reveals the international literature in this field to enable these small places to summon big ideas.
Jul 26, 2015 • 21min
Aca-Twitter? Twitter for Academics
Steve and Tara talk about Aca-twitter. How do academics use Twitter and how can it assist early career, mid-career and senior scholars in their teaching and research? They talk about the gathering of research materials, receiving feedback and returning intellectual generosity to the neo-liberal academy.
Jul 24, 2015 • 60min
Sound Start Study
Professor Sharynne McLeod introduces her research project, Sound Start Study. She explores the options for intervention in the early years to understand and assist children with speech development.
