{"title":"‘Socrates at the tech’: On higher education in the age of the mass university","authors":"R. Watts","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558606","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While conservative pundits routinely decry the collapse of ‘real’ universities, the task of defending the modern mass university and renovating its pedagogical culture receives too little attention. The author draws on the Socratic and Stoic traditions to defend the idea that higher education should be open to all citizens. That defence talks in terms both of the role of a university in sustaining a robust public culture and about providing the conditions in which all citizens can flourish. By drawing on the same traditions it is possible to point to some crucial principles that might inform the kind of pedagogy such a university system deserves, but which are all too conspicuously lacking in our universities at the present time.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127834658","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":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114902539","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":"Perspectives of another: Conceiving of ourselves in critical times.","authors":"R. Arber","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558607","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article takes as its focus newspaper articles chosen from a Melbourne newspaper published annually on a particular day, between 1988 and 2003. The resultant bricolage provides a backdrop through which contemporary conversations about race and ethnic relations in Australian contexts can be examined. Australian educational institutions, particularly those in major cities such as Melbourne and Sydney have long been implicated in the provision of immigrant education. Over the last decade Australia follows the United States and Britain as major suppliers of international education. Under examination here are the changed ways that race and ethnic relations can be understood and the implications of these changes for the ways that these new directions in education can be spoken about.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126352271","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":"Universities as learning networks","authors":"Lorraine Ling, E. Burman, M. Cooper, P. Ling","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558605","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article the authors report on an investigation of the types of professional development university academics perceive to be of most value in the current context of universities. In the current context academics are required to undertake a range of tasks that hitherto may not have been seen as the role of academics. These include marketing and generating enterprise income, as well as teaching, undertaking research and performing administrative duties. The conduct of professional development for academics may then relate to roles broader than the traditional ones that focused on research and teaching","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128399927","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":"Discourses of difference in gender equity policy in Australian education: Feminism and marginalisation","authors":"Sandra Taylor","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558598","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract I am interested in understanding why resolving the key dilemma of redistribution and recognition of difference has proved to be so difficult. In this article I analyse the history of gender equity reform in relation to difference, with particular emphasis on Indigenous issues, applying recent theoretical understandings about equity and difference. The article documents how discourses of difference were framed and addressed in four major gender equity policy documents produced at the national level in Australia. In particular there is an emphasis on how the redistribution‐recognition dilemma is handled in the documents.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128841328","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":"The problem of poverty amongst tertiary students: Why it is missing from the policy agenda","authors":"J. Bessant","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558599","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article two questions arc addressed. The first is whether there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate there is a significant experience of poverty amongst university students. The second question is, if student poverty is a significant problem, then why hasn't it become an issue to which government officials and people outside government pay serious attention? The article is confined to an exploration of two factors that appear influential. The first relates to the minimal political efficacy of students, which I suggest is linked to their general social status and to popular narratives that tertiary students are a privileged group. This also reinforces the widely held belief that student poverty is a positive ‘character building’ experience for young people. The second factor which helps explain the omission of tertiary student poverty from the policy agenda concerns the absence of ethnographic information on tertiary student poverty.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123419042","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":"Identity, physical capital and young men's experiences of soccer in school and in community‐based clubs","authors":"R. Light, J. Quay","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558600","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article engages with four key informants from a school into the meaning of soccer in the lives of the informants and the disparity between the school's practice and the cultural meanings attached to soccer, at the school and community‐based clubs. We will demonstrate how their ability and the cultural knowledge developed through playing club soccer over most of their lives provided them with an identity and meaningful membership in communities built around soccer. Drawing on Bourdieu (1884), we see this physical and cultural knowledge as embodied capital. While it provided them with meaningful membership, social status and position within the communities of their soccer clubs, it had far less value at school. Within the community of the school, their embodied cultural capital provided them with few opportunities to develop a sense of social distinction, personal identity, self‐expression and self‐determination.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115605848","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":"Becoming a teacher educator during the golden age of higher education","authors":"Anthony P. Potts","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558601","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many are aware of that clichéd quote ‘those who can do, those who can't teach and those who can't teach, teach teachers’. Fewer are probably familiar with Caplow and McGee's (1968, p. 82) observation that some academics regard education faculties as occupying a special Siberia of their own. This article has as its focus on why teachers became teacher educators and worked in a faculty of education in a non‐elite or peripheral higher education institution (Friedman, 2000, p. 38) during the period 1965–1982. Research on the academic profession is still limited to the United States, Britain and Germany with key aspects of the profession still unexamined especially in less prestigious institutions (Altbach and Kelly, 1985, pp. 34–42). In Australia the very small number of studies undertaken rely heavily on questionnaire data which cannot yield the richness of detail provided by interviews (Powell, Barrett and Shanker, 1983, p. 298).","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130385314","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":"In terror's wake: Text, power and knowledge in the aftermath of 11 September, 2001","authors":"R. Hil, A. Bloemhard","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558597","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Terror, war, death and destruction are on the lips of politicians, commentators, observers and activists concerned with the ‘war against terror’. Since the tragic events of 11 September, 2001 various intellectual struggles, tensions and controversies have arisen as writers, often from hostile and competing camps, seek to understand and interpret the nature, meaning and consequences of the attack. This article focuses on three genres of post‐'9/11’ textual discourse that have arisen in book form: ‘critical contextual’, ‘moral philosophical’ and ‘reflective parochial’. Each body of work is distinguished broadly by a shared analytical and intellectual trajectory that defines its discursive parameters of analysis and interpretation. We argue that given the prevailing political context in the wake of 11 September — typified by a deep sense of insecurity, risk, suspicion of uncertainty, and denial of ethical dilemmas ‐ and many of the policy measures that have resulted from these, critical contextual texts have been largely relegated by the powerful to the margins of heretic ‘irrelevance’. Despite this, critical contextual works have undoubtedly had a profound and lasting effect upon ‘public opinion’, in spite of attempts to diminish the credibility of such accounts.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116778047","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":"Teachers and school reform: Working with productive pedagogies and productive assessment","authors":"B. Lingard, Martin Mills","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558596","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on a large government commissioned research study, the Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (QSRLS), the article confirms the existing research finding regarding the cenerality of teachers’ classroom practices (pedagogies and assessment) to student learning. On the basis of a literature review and classroom observations, analysis of assessment tasks and student work, the article identifies the models of productive pedagogies and productive assessment as being effective in terms of improving both social and academic outcomes for all students, especially students from disadvantaged backgrounds. In so doing, it stresses the need for aligning curriculum, pedagogies and assessment with desired student outcomes and also the need to create teacher professional learning communities so as to enhance whole school effects. However, the article also recognises the significance of family background in terms of students’ learning outcomes and thus argues the need for complementary and appropriate educational system funding and policies. Indeed, the article recognises that claims about teacher practices making a difference cannot be posed innocently and that a focus on individual teachers in policy is a double‐edged sword.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115274616","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}