{"title":"Interrogating critical discourse analysis for educational research in new spaces and places","authors":"W. Morgan, Sandra Taylor","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115959507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Methodology in action’: Some dilemmas about researching pregnant and parenting young people and their educational participation","authors":"G. Shacklock, L. Harrison, J. Angwin","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reports on aspects of the pilot phase of a continuing study of pregnant and parenting young people and their movements in and out of school (and other educational) settings. It presents an overview of the methodological approach employed, data collected and readings of that data. The article draws on one specific case to identify how young people engage with school during this phase of their lives. This case represents one instance of how young people can see themselves becoming somebody in and around other identity work they engage in while pregnant and parenting at school. An insight into the dilemmas encountered in the interpretation of data and the construction of research accounts is provided through a window on researcher reflections and research team discussions.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117349399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Uni is a serious thing, why are you here if you've got learning difficulties?’: Access and exclusion in higher education","authors":"Janette Ryan","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556415","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The massification of higher education in Australia since the early 1990s has foregrounded issues of access and participation for a range of ‘non‐traditional’ students. Such issues can unsettle academics’ normative assumptions of the learning behaviours of the traditional, ‘ideal’, university student and highlight normative beliefs and practices about teaching and learning. This can be seen most acutely in regard to the increasing numbers of students with disabilities, especially students with ‘hidden’ disabilities such as psychiatric disabilities and learning disabilities. The impacts of these disabilities go to the very core of the business of the academy: cognition, intellectual ability and academic success. Using Smith's (1999) notion of ‘cultural cartography’, this article takes a sociocultural approach to investigate and give voice to the responses of a small number of students with a ‘learning difficulty’ at a regional university about problematic aspects of their teaching and learning experiences. This demonstrated that the after‐effects of access and equity admission polices can play out in deeply personal ways for individual students when normative, behaviourist notions of ability and achievement continue to prevail within higher education environments. Although non‐traditional students are now permitted to enter the academy, this occurs at some personal cost to their feelings of belonging and self‐esteem, and can result in students taking on deficit or helpless positions within the academy.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128036585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Counting and accounting for social justice in the devolved school: How do indigenous students fare?","authors":"P. Mcinerney","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556413","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How does a self‐managing school meet the needs and aspirations of the most disenfranchised members of its community? What responsibilities should reside with the state and the education system in the quest for more equitable schooling outcomes? In the neo‐liberal state, responsibility for addressing educational disadvantage has largely been devolved to schools within centrally determined curriculum frameworks and accountability mechanisms. But there are disturbing signs that these new arrangements are not working in the interests of the most marginalised students and their families. This article explores the nexus between school‐based management and educational equality with particular reference to Indigenous students in a disadvantaged Australian school community. It reaffirms the need for well‐resourced and vibrant education bureaucracies as an integral component of a responsible approach to school‐based management.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129653775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking about a revolution. paradigmatic change in early childhood education: From developmental to sociocultural theory and beyond","authors":"Suzy Edwards","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556412","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Early childhood education has been characterised in recent times by discussion associated with the similarities, differences and various merits of developmental and sociocultural theory as theoretical informants to curriculum and educational practice. In the main, these discussions centre on the way each theory views development and positions the child as a learner. This article argues that the debate may be furthered by considering the extent to which each perspective is related to the other and draws on Kuhn's conceptualisation of the evolution of knowledge in communities of practice in order to examine the extent to which newer explanations for development are being considered in relation to traditional ideas. The article concludes with an emphasis on the idea that the evolution of knowledge concerned with children's development and learning is a process of continued growth and one that requires an active awareness as to how and why it is utilised and interpreted as an informant to early childhood education.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128621315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does the glass through which we view the World frame our view? Research and literacy policy","authors":"D. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556416","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article considers whether the methodology used for research determines the viewpoint of the researcher, or whether the researcher's view of the world determines the methodology. The purpose of the article is to consider some of the questions arising from the author's endeavour to conceptualise a methodological framework for a doctoral analysis of the Australian Commonwealth Literacy Policy Literacy for All: The Challenge for Australian Schools (DEETYA 1998).","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"70 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120895834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning joyfully: An emotional and transformative experience","authors":"Peta. Heywood","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556414","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article I focus on the emotion of joy in the classroom and identify the role that experiencing joy has in promoting engagement and satisfaction in learning. For educationists, the implication that the emotional climate of the classroom has as much to do with cognitive growth as it does with attitudinal needs to be recognised and addressed. As Bloom and his colleagues noted in 1956, the idea of dualistic notion of cognition and affect is untenable as these inform each other. How the brain is structured and developed affects how we learn. Because the circuitry of the brain is sculptured by emotional experiences it can alter during one's lifetime. Emotions contribute to the brain's neural circuitry experiencing joy will lay down neural pathways likely to serve the individual well for a lifetime. Furthermore, joy promotes holistic learning through engaging both left and right hemispheres. Joy, as an emotion, involves accepting challenges that stretch one's capacity and persevering through often‐painful experiences until a successful outcome is reached. This ultimate achievement can then be celebrated and recognised as a joyful learning experience. Teachers who promote the experience of joy in the classroom may do more than simply promote successful learning.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129178709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17508480509556419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480509556419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123073556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogies, policies and politics of mobility","authors":"Michael Singh","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558612","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary transitions in the historical, ideological and localising practices of globalisation (and counter-globalism) are evident in global/national flows of students and teachers, individually or in groups. These organic flows of students and teachers include trans-national exchanges, internal migration and inter-suburban bussing. The innovative research reported in this special edition of Melbourne Studies in Education explores the complexities of mobile students and teachers moving from one suburb to another, from the country to city, from town to town, from one state to another, from one continent to another. This encompasses those students and teachers for whom travel is not be a normal way of life, but a necessity because they choose to or believe that they have no other choice than to move. The diverse and disjunctive movements of students and teachers constitute a key feature of schooling today throughout Australia, and are affecting educational pedagogies, policies and politics to a hitherto unprecedented degree. The movements of students and teachers of all kinds, the experiences of travel for those for whom movement is a requirement, the transfers of intellectual labour power, run up against the sovereignty of sedentary regulations governing pedagogies for producing knowledge, policies that resource different ways of knowing, and politics that privilege some communities while disadvantaging others. Drawing on cultural, political, sociological and philosophical perspectives the research reported in this edition of Melbourne Studies in Education reveals that student and teacher mobility is neither all of the one kind nor something peculiar to a particular time and space; each being an adaptation to and layered within changing culturalhistorical situations.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116739787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossing tentatively from the ‘right’ side of the track: Dimensions of mobility","authors":"G. Nelson","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558614","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates growing tensions between traditional forms of schooling that serve largely settled student populations and new influences of increasing student mobility. The article is structured around four main considersations. The first brings to the fore dimensions of mobility that effect schools on a daily basis. The article then analyses statistical data illustrating the growing movement of students within and into Australia. This section contextualises the particular of real schools and draws out further complexities of student mobility, questioning taken‐for‐granted traditions of schooling. This analysis is followed by socio‐cultural perspectives informed by Foucault (1979), Bauman (1998) and Giddens (1994,2003) to explore tensions between the regulatory power of schooling and dimensions of student mobility in local/ global conditions. Finally, some recommendations for future practice are presented for critical consideration.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122889591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}