Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with the staff at the School of Teacher Education's Burlington campus in Canada about professional development. She asks the staff to explore how digitization has transformed PD in terms of time management, range of opportunities and the nature of expertise.

Tara talks with colleagues in the School of Teacher Education at the Burlington campus about the nature of 'innovation' in education. What is innovation and - more importantly - how do we as teachers enact it?

Tara talks with colleagues at the Burlington campus of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. These staff - and our students - are in a special environment. They work in a Canadian campus of an Australian university. Such an institution offers an evocative world view and perspective on the potential of international education.

Tara talks with Anne for this seventh installment of her PhD podcast series. Three months into her doctorate, Anne's supervisors - Tara and Steve Redhead - are about to prepare her for writing the proposal. This podcast explores Anne's trajectory so far and enables her movement into the proposal. The questions to Anne are live and tough. Her answers and clear and inspirational.

Tara talks with Maria Hatzigianni about her journey to Charles Sturt University and her research in early childhood education. There is particular attention to play as a mode and method for learning.

Tara talks with Marilyn about the value to students and communities of regional and remote placements.

Anne and Tara explore how anchorage operates on images. There is attention to the complex and contradictory relationship between images and meaning in the iconography of teaching and teachers.

Tara and Loraine explore how interventions operate in Early Childhood Education. How and why do we change the lives of disadvantages children?

Associate Professor David McKinnon talks with Tara about science education: why he was drawn to it, and why it matters for contemporary students and the contemporary society.

Anne talks with Tara and Steve about the challenges involved in applying semiotics to education research.