Tara Brabazon podcast

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.

Tara and Steve Redhead talk about Wellington, in Aotearoa / New Zealand. They explore city imaging and the specific creative industries agendas and policies in Wellington. Particular attention is placed on the transformative effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the very specific urbanity of Wellington.

Anne McLeod and Tara are joined by Steve Redhead for this week's podcast. Anne explores the role of visuality in her PhD and probes strategies to enable analysis and interpretation, rather than description, of these rich materials.

Tara Brabazon and Anne McLeod discuss how unobtrusive research methods are applied to the study of early childhood education in Australia.

Tara talks with international visitors to Charles Sturt University from the University of East London. Carolyn Silberfeld and Paulet Brown explore the changing nature of international early childhood education.

Anne talks with Tara about her PhD. They explore unobtrusive research methods and their appropriateness to educational resesearch.

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project: the retention project at Charles Sturt University in Australia. In this final podcast, Tara asks them about the legacy of their project and how they have been personally and professionally transformed by their research.