Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Episodes
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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.
Apr 30, 2015 • 17min
The value of music education
Why study music? Tara Brabazon talks with Oriana Zanon about music education. What is the value of music to pre-service teacher education students?
Apr 30, 2015 • 39min
Tara talks with Leanne about cultural studies, universities and life
In a provocative reversal, Leanne interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond. Leanne is interested in the past, present and future of cultural studies and her questions probe the effectiveness of this paradigm in a tough era for higher education.
Apr 28, 2015 • 49min
The role of performing and creative arts in building community partnerships
Anne McLeod, from CSU's School of Teacher Education Dubbo campus, talks about the role of the creative and performing arts in teacher education. She shows the significance of community partnerships and the value - at the level of skill and knowledge - in enabling the creative arts in higher education.
Apr 26, 2015 • 10min
Mick Winter 16 - Mick, Steve, Tara and Oxford
Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.
Apr 22, 2015 • 1h 28min
Exploring a capabilities-friendly approach to 21st century professional practice
Professor Melanie Walker, from the Free State University in South Africa, explores how our understandings of higher education transform when deploying the capabilities approach to teaching and learning.
Apr 17, 2015 • 21min
Anne McLeod 30 - Keeping Anne out of the crack den
Steve, Anne and Tara are back together again, celebrating the completion of Anne's first chapter and foreshadowing her next chapter. We discuss methods, ethics and the role of curriculum studies in the formulation of professionalism, and the teaching profession.
Put another way, why is Anne using Unobtrusive Research Methods rather than conducting a participant observation of crack use?
Apr 14, 2015 • 57min
Theorizing the work around
Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'
Apr 12, 2015 • 8min
Mick Winter 15 - Writing through the intellectual hangover
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.
Apr 4, 2015 • 55min
Bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms
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.
