Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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May 27, 2015 • 56min
Equal human worth and social justice education
What is a human 'worth'? What does equality actually mean? Dr Tace Vigliante, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, takes these questions as her focus, to develop a social justice education.
May 20, 2015 • 55min
Understanding the transition to university - how can kindergarten children help us understand tertiary transition
Transitions are crucial to education. Dr Libbey Murray, from the Dubbo campus of the School of Teacher Education, explores what academics can learn from the transitional experiences of kindergarten children when thinking about first year teaching and learning in a university.
May 16, 2015 • 23min
Academic misconduct series 3 - for academic managers
The calibre of higher education requires the maintenance of standards and the protection of academic integrity. Tara, in this third podcast in her academic misconduct series, offers advice to academic managers. They must manage and monitor the process with ethics, respect and care. Tara helps academic managers ensure a strong process for students, staff and the higher education sector.
May 16, 2015 • 19min
Academic Misconduct Series 2 - for students
What advice can help students manage academic integrity and information literacy, or a charge of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct? Tara helps students move through an academic misconduct process and offers clear advice to enable a productive resolution.
May 16, 2015 • 17min
Academic misconduct series 1 - for academic staff
Tara presents the first session in her series exploring academic misconduct in our universities. This professional development session is geared for academics. Teachers in our universities are the first responders to academic misconduct. But what is the role of an academic in cases of plagiarism and collusion? Tara talks through this role, alongside presenting the risks and challenges that flood any case of academic misconduct.
May 16, 2015 • 4min
Academic misconduct series - introduction
Tara introduces her professional development series on academic misconduct. This introductory session defines the terms 'academic misconduct,' 'academic integrity,' 'plagiarism' and 'collusion' to reveal their role in enabling quality and excellence in higher education.
May 9, 2015 • 27min
Ashgate books that transformed their field - Tara Brabazon and The University of Google
The University of Google has been recognized by Ashgate as a book that transformed its field. Tara talks about this monograph, sharing how it was written and how it activated new relationships between cultural studies, media studies and information literacy.
A weblink to this book is here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670971
May 9, 2015 • 27min
Steve Redhead's Football and Accelerated Culture - This Modern Sporting Life
How has football transformed through globalization and digitization? Steve Redhead talks with Tara about his new book for Routledge, Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life.
For further details about the book plese refer to the website for this book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138923157/
May 9, 2015 • 11min
Anne McLeod 31 - Dancing to Level 42
Probably the greatest challenge in the completion of a PhD is reaching - and sustaining - the intellectual level of a doctorate. It is particularly tough to keep the level high while teaching undergraduate students. Anne McLeod, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss this challenge. How do we stretch and move from teaching first year students through to high quality doctoral research?
May 9, 2015 • 11min
Mick Winter 17 - The Purge
Why was there a riot in Baltimore? Were memes involved? Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.
