Tara Brabazon podcast

Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'

Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter. They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter. How to handle an intellectual hangover? Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.

Dr Jae Major explores the role, function and place of bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms. With specific attention to Aotearoa/New Zealand, strategies are offered to enable bilingualism to flourish.

How can policy makers and local councils encourage movement in small cities? Leanne McRae, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore these third tier cities and the benefits of thinking about physical cultural studies in a way that integrates the analogue and the digital, the tourist and the resident.

Dr Mike Kent, from Internet Studies at Curtin University, talks with Tara about his career and how to build momentum and success during a challenging time for the higher education sector.

How are men and women with mental illnesses being supported through higher education and elearning? Dr Mike Kent presents the results from a recent survey conducted with students from Open University Australia. These results are startling and challenging, questioning the practices and protocols of university teaching and learning.

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about the place of the creative arts in teacher education. They discuss the disparate streams of the discipline area, but also the value for teachers in understanding voice and movement.

Anne and Tara discuss the particularly difficult challenges of writing a doctorate in a rapidly changing policy environment for early childhood education.

Does parental involvement have an impact on student achievement? While the answer to this question may seem self evident, actually the results are much more ambivalent. Dr Graham Daniel, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, presents an interim report on this research project he shares with Dr Audrey Wang.

With all the pressure and attacks on teacher education, it is a provocative but useful question to ask, why would anyone want to become a teacher? Tara asks the new generation of teacher education students at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus. Their answers are inspiring and aspirational.