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ItemDynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2024-01-01)
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ItemWhat's the use of educational research? Six stories reflecting on research use with communities(SPRINGER, 2024-01-01)Abstract The question of how education research can be ‘useful’ is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread ‘impact’ agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These stories engage issues of the risk of usefulness, the time that is needed to work collaboratively for research usefulness, whether theories developed in universities can be useful to communities for understanding the problems they face, who has the power to steer research to serve their purposes, and how community collective action can enhance the usefulness of research. The article concludes with a section that reflects on the importance of continuing to engage with the debates about research use in often highly commercially oriented university environments. This article brings together diverse voices that wrestle with the politics of research use beyond the neat, linear narratives of change that impact agendas tend to portray. These illustrations of the ethical dilemmas encountered through navigating research use with communities contribute to an ongoing conversation about refusing capitalist and colonialist logics of research extraction while working within institutions often driven by such logics.
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ItemAssessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence(Australian Government, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2023)The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), while creating new possibilities for learning and teaching, has exacerbated existing assessment challenges within higher education. However, there is considerable expertise, based on evidence, theory and practice, about how to design assessment for a digital world, which includes artificial intelligence. AI is not new, after all. This document, constructed through expert collaboration, draws on this body of knowledge and outlines directions for the future of assessment. It seeks to provide guidance for the sector on ways assessment practices can take advantage of the opportunities, and manage the risks, of AI, specifically generative AI.
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ItemWhere powerful knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge intersect: the case of knowledge and beliefs for teaching school geography through inquiry(Taylor and Francis Group, 2024)Despite global interest in inquiry as a teaching and learning approach for school geography, little is known about teachers’ knowledge and beliefs for teaching geography through inquiry. This paper reports on findings from a survey of 44 Victorian secondary teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practice of teaching geography through inquiry. Our findings reveal that geography teachers believe in the power of geographical knowledge to influence young people’s attitudes, values, emotions and ethical action and the power of incorporating geography inquiry to deliver these ambitious educational goals. This paper concludes that knowledge for teaching geography through inquiry is a dynamic collection of rich and situated knowledge constructed in and with practice, and teachers’ beliefs are deeply intertwined. These conclusions augment Shulman’s concept of pedagogical content knowledge by incorporating concepts of powerful knowledge and curriculum-making, signalling a way forward on knowledge for teaching powerful subject knowledge through inquiry. We argue that geography inquiry is key to experiencing and developing powerful knowledge in geography. Disciplinary inquiry supports, even gives flesh to, Young’s vision of a Future 3 curriculum.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAn A/r/tographic Blueprint for Walking in Four Propositions(InSEA Publications, 2024-05-01)Our life narratives are intertwined and entangled with/in art, research and teaching. As digital a/r/tographers, our place stories have connections that have connected us further across spaces and sites. These are multiplicitous and invite new inter-actions and intra-actions across times. We-searching (Holman Jones & Harris, 2019) with Haraway digitally is an experiment that we followed as a series of propositions during 2020. A turn in our life narratives that hold us, yet opens us to living and working with and through the human, non-human and more-than-human interests us as re-searchers. This a/r/tographic blueprint for walking in four propositions explores making kin as a/r/tographers that work in often contested spaces of conservative educational research and across disciplinary boundaries.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDrawing, Writing, and Walking: An A/r/t/graphic Proposition in 7 Prompts(InSEA Publications, 2024-05-01)This co-storied a/r/tographic proposition in seven prompts has been designed by three a/r/tographers at different stages of knowing between themselves, their worlds, and their practices in and through a/r/tography. We have co-designed these seven prompts in response to the renderings of a/r/tography from the spaces and places we have found ourselves in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. We live in the same city but each of our a/r/tographic practices and our inquiries differ. Our practices of living, walking, being, working, and travelling explore how the radical relatedness and collaborations (Bickel et al., 2010) found within an a/r/tography pedagogy and methodology occur. “Radical relatedness leads to further knowledge sources and cross disciplinary experience in regard to relational aesthetics, relational inquiry, and relational learning” (Bickel et al., 2010, p. 98). We believe that collaboration is central to our work as researchers and practitioners—we learn through, with, and together.
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ItemA Student-Centric Evaluation of a Program Addressing Prevention of Gender-Based Violence in Three African Countries(MDPI AG, 2023-08-01)Studies investigating the effectiveness of school-related gender-based violence prevention programs seldom report on the extent to which students themselves value and recommend such programs. Yet, along with evidence about effectiveness in relation to shifts in knowledge, attitudes, or intentions, student-valuing is a significant indicator that the programs can make a positive contribution to students' lives. This mixed-method study analyses survey and focus group data collected from ninety-two schools in three African countries (Tanzania, Zambia, and Eswatini). Students found the program contributed to improved peer relationships and identified the five most useful components as learning about gender equality and human rights, learning how to obtain help for those affected by violence, understanding and communicating about their emotions, strategies to avoid joining in with bullying and harassment, and understanding the effects of gender-based violence.
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ItemSupport for Dyscalculia(Mathematical Association of Victoria, 2024-04)In January 2022 after months of research on finding an appropriate professional body to learn more about dyscalculia. I could not find any organisations that offer a practical course with evidence-based research on how to teach students with maths learning difficulties in Australia. Through prior Professional Learning at SPELD Victoria, I encountered Dyscalculia Association UK and started the year long online course. The course is an interactive hands-on course designed by Professor Steve Chinn and Judy Hornigold of the Dyscalculia Association UK. The following reflection is the Final Practicum I submitted after successfully completing 10 hours of teaching maths to a group of learning difficulties students in year 6. In this article, I have outlined critical evaluation and reflection on the lessons. I have included a structure of a multisensory maths lesson plan based on the Singapore Maths pedagogy (Chinn, 2017; Hornigold, 2017). I then tailored the lessons to the students’ learning needs and teach them accordingly.
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ItemInclusive gaming through AI: a perspective for identifying opportunities and obstacles through co-design with people living with MND(Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-04-10)This interdisciplinary research initiative seeks to enhance the accessibility of video gaming for individuals living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a condition characterized by progressive muscle weakness. Gaming serves as a social and recreational outlet for many, connecting friends, family, and even strangers through collaboration and competition. However, MND’s disease progression, including muscle weakness and paralysis, severely limit the ability to engage in gaming. In this paper, we desscribe our exploration of AI solutions to improve accessibility to gaming. We argue that any application of accessible AI must be led by lived experience. Notably, we found in our previous scoping review, existing academic research into video games for those living with MND largely neglects the experiences of MND patients in the context of video games and AI, which was a prompt for us to address this critical gap.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMeaning Making in Early Childhood Research: Pedagogies and the Personal(Routledge, 2017)Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies. This collection explores how educators and researchers can move toward practices of meaning making in early childhood education. The text’s narrative style provides an intimate portrait of engaging in research that challenges assumptions and thinking in a variety of international contexts, and each chapter offers a way to engage in meaning making based on the experiences of young children, their families, and educators.