{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"305 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":"122524531","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":"Students researching their subjectivities as constructed by Australian ‘mutual obligation’ policies","authors":"J. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558590","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article outlines the innovative methodology I have developed for a study of young women, classed‐hybrid‐subjectivities and Australian government policies of ‘mutual obligation’. This methodology further develops and disturbs existing notions of research methods involving young people. I argue that in order for research involving young people to be inclusive it needs to attend to issues of ‘sameness, difference and diversity’. Central to this study are the notions of feminst praxis (Lather 1; Weiner 2) where the feminist‐researcher as feminist‐teacher grapples with issues of classism, racism, sexism, reflexivity and self‐reflexivity whilst attempting to take on and fulfill the roles of teacher‐researcher, researcher‐teacher in an ‘inclusive’ classroom.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129898927","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":"Introduction: Performing shared responsibilities: Inclusive methodologies for educational inquiry","authors":"N. Gough","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558588","url":null,"abstract":"Let me say from the outset that the following articles really need no introduction, and that their authors certainly do not need my patronage (or anyone else's) to legitimate their work. Nevertheless, I very much enjoyed the presentation of four of these articles in their earlier versions (at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education held in Fremantle in December 2001) and the authors have persuaded me that introducing their articles and making some connections between them might serve some useful purpose. I admit that much of my enthusiasm for these articles is unabashedly self-interested. Four of them those by Jan Edwards, Valerie Harwood, Margaret Kumar and Mary Lou Rasmussen were invaluable in helping me to understand and address a pressing practical problem in 2001, as I will explain in more detail below. I read the fifth article by Anna Hickey-Moody only a few weeks before writing this introduction, but it has proved to be no less useful in informing the same practical problem, as well as a more recent research interest. Each of these articles responds critically and creatively to the challenges of performing and representing inclusive methodologies in educational research. For much of my career as an educational researcher and teacher of research methodology studies, I thought I 'knew* how difficult these challenges were. Like many of my colleagues, I have struggled with the ontological, epistemological, methodological and axiological complexities of reading, representing and narrating difference without fearing or fetishising it, and of performing modes of inquiry that respond constructively to the effects of difFerence in mediating educational change. But I have become more aware of the limits of my understandings in recent years, especially since 1998 when I began to participate in a number of research and teaching activities in southern Africa. These literal (if occasional) shifts in location have helped to shape my enthusiasm for the articles in this issue.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124413772","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":"‘Turning away’ from intellectual disability: Methods of practice, methods of thought","authors":"A. Hickey-Moody","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558589","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The concept of ‘becoming‘1 is a method for thinking previously unimagined futures in the present and is a style of thought grounded in group‐process. In contrast to the binary conceptual apparatus employed within discourses on inclusive education, ‘becoming’ is a method for thinking the actual as a ‘turning away‘J from static constructions of history, and the production of new thought through an active resistance to history. Restless Dance Company (RDC) is an Adelaide‐based company of young people with and without intellectual disability that creates dance‐theatre. I argue that the RDC methodology offers a practice of ‘turning away’ from static histories of intellectual disability for many company members. This article discusses the construction of educational discourses of inclusion in relation to people with intellectual disability and outlines RDC's methodological alternatives. These alternatives, known as ‘cultures or intellectual disability’ and ‘reverse integration’ avoid the notion of ‘including’ young people with intellectual disability. Instead, dancers in the company ‘without’ intellectual disability follow those ‘with’, who arc accorded cultural primacy within the company. Finally, I develop a relationship between the RDC methodology and Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming’.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127593377","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":"Queer trepidations and the art of inclusion","authors":"M. Rasmussen","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558593","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Contemporary research and pedagogy telated to sexualities and schooling in Australia, Aotearoa1/New Zealand and the United States often focuses on ways to alleviate homophobia and heterosexism in the hope of creating schools that are more inclusive of lesbian and gay (and very rarely bisexual, transgender and intersex2) (LGBTI) teachers and students. Within this paradigm, the notion of what comprises sexualities is often taken as given. Alternatively, researchers and educators may invoke essentialising narratives in order to make arguments for the inclusion of students and teachers who adopt LGBTI identifications. Drawing on a theoretical framework influenced by the work of Deborah Britzman3 and other queer theorists within and outside education this article interrogates these strategies of inclusion. In particular, I focus on research methodologies and pedagogies related to sexualities and schooling devised in the name of inclusion of young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT)4 in secondary educational contexts. This analysis, which is based on my doctoral studies, commences with a consideration of queer theories and the art of inclusion. Subsequent to this I analyse pedagogies of inclusion and methodologies of inclusion, and, their nexus with queer theories.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130791856","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":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134084262","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":"Strands of knowledge: Weaving international student subjectivity and hybridity into undergraduate curriculum.","authors":"Margaret Kumar","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558592","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The focus of this article is to outline an inclusive methodology that caters tor the construction and representation of international students. It suggests the implementation of a ‘strands of knowledge’ approach that enables the creation of a dialogic space that foregrounds the subjectivity and hybridity of individuals who are categorised as Other and as outside of the core group. The approach has been suggested from data taken from a detailed study exploring the discursive representation of undergraduate students from the region of Southeast Asia who are studying in Australia. The author focuses particularly on the way students are discursively constructed to give them a representation that is binding and exclusionary and belies the subjectivities they bring from hybrid postcolonial backgrounds. The methodology is devised from postcolonial theory and applied linguistics to bring about an inclusivity of those who are relegated to the periphery. In this way, the article provides a methodological revisionism and critique of discourse that is informed by the strands of ‘race’, ‘culture’ and ‘identification’ to enable one to move into the arena of multiplicity and subjectivity and the constituting and reconstituting of Self.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121679743","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":"Subjugation and disqualification: Critiquing the discourses of psychopathological behaviour used in education","authors":"V. Harwood","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2003.9558591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558591","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes that Foucault's notion of subjugated disqualified knowledge can be drawn on to provide a methodological tool for analysing psychopathological discourses of behaviour in education. In so doing, the paper presents a study of Ben, a young man diagnosed with ‘conduct disorder’. As a mental disorder, conduct disorder functions as an influential knowledge that can subjugate and disqualify a young person. Through the discussion of Ben's experiences, the paper shows how subjugated disqualified knowledges can indicate the existence of dominating knowledges and argues that the perspectives of young people such as Ben can be of strategic value for analysing the use of psychopathological discourses of behaviour in education.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130497195","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":"Four Literacy Practices roled into One: Drama and Early Childhood Literacies","authors":"J. Martello","doi":"10.1080/17508480209556402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480209556402","url":null,"abstract":"Drama: Undervalued and Underused The literature on process drama and its use as an effective pedagogical strategy is both extensive and convincing (see, for example, Bolton, Morgan & Saxton, Warren). However, so far, it has not convinced a majority of educators to employ drama in the primary school classroom on a regular basis. This is particularly true of early childhood classrooms, where, it can be argued, it is more appropriate than any other learning and teaching strategy. Although some states in Australia have drama as part of the mandatory curriculum for primary schools, there is evidence to show that it is not generally taught as a subject discipline or used as a learning and teaching strategy. The need for further evidence of drama's value continues to drive committed drama educators to research and explain this much under-rated subject and pedagogy. Dramas value as a learning and teaching strategy is a driving concern of this article. The article characterises drama as a 'productive pedagogy' promoting quality student learning on four essential dimensions. At a time when the spotlight is on the quality of teaching as a determining factor in many children's success in literacy and in schooling in general, the productive pedagogy framework provides critical guidance in how we might achieve excellence in teaching. In relation to specific curriculum content, the paper focuses on the use of drama in early childhood to extend students' literacy learning into four kinds of literacy practices that constitute effective literacy. The work of Luke and Freebody is used here as the basis for discussion of literacy","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125891128","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":"10.1080/17508480209556410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480209556410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116742238","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}