Tara Brabazon podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mick, Tara and Steve probe the key problem for doctoral students: when is enough reading actually enough? When should a PhD student stop reading on a particular topic?

Dr Richard Liu challenges our expectations of assessment through the application of multimodality.

This workshop, presented by Bruce Cameron (Director of Easy Access Australia Publishing) and Naul Nunnari (Manager, Event Access and Inclusion, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet) assists profit and non-profit organization to create accessible events. A range of strategies are offered that are both clear and easy to implement.

Anne, Steve and Tara consider the intellectual, political and social management of the binary opposition HOME and SCHOOL. What is the impact on this binary opposition for early childhood education? Steve proposes that Anne investigates Derrida and does deconstruction properly, rather than using it as a synonym for 'analysis.'

Mick, Steve and Tara are back together working through Mick's meme chapter. He has been on an Althusserian journey. They discussed the relationship between ISAs, RSAs, statism and anti-statism. But the fear of the tea towel overshadowed much of the meeting. Wives of theorists have to be cautious in the kitchen...

Dr Geoff Pearson, a senior lecturer in Law at Manchester University, presented an innovative seminar on behalf of the School of Teacher Education and CSU Law. Geoff explored the specific challenges and profound benefits of ethnography. He then demonstrated the benefits of ethnography in the study of English football fans.