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Educational Planet Shapers: Researching, Hypothesising, Dreaming the Future
Proceedings from the 2008 Research Higher Degree Conference held at the School of Education and Professional Studies, Gold Coast Campus of University, Queensland.
Edited by
Barbara Garrick, Shiralee Poed, and James Skinner.
ISBN: 978-1-921214-58-5
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This edited collection exemplifies the early twenty-first century’s penchant for learning communities that are cooperative and collaborative. The co-production of educational research it represents has seen higher degree students produce their chapters through access to experienced researchers, supervisors, mentors, and editors within the broad community of practice of the university. This work has been presented at the joint staff-student conference noted above, after which their chapters have successfully traversed the blind review process. They now join their broader research communities in dreaming, researching and hypothesizing the future.
In this collection, drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies, doctoral students, graduates and experienced academics address a number of complex and significant contemporary issues, problems and challenges. A major focus of several chapters has been the doctoral candidacy itself, the processes of doctoral research, and the interpersonal aspects of supervision. Here also are substantial chapters on legal and practical issues related to curriculum adjustment to meet disability discrimination legislation, the influence of disruptive student behaviour upon teacher stress and burnout, implementing middle-tier science in an independent school, and the challenge of transition from secondary school to post-school life for adolescents with vision impairment. Other significant chapters include the tensions between sponsorship and recognition of female surfers, the sociocultural issues framing policy change on college English assessment in China, the challenges for educators in a system of non-traditional flexible schooling, and action research and embodied reflection in pre-service teacher education. A chapter calling into question current understandings of the theory and practice of hypnosis, and noting the predominance of controlled research on the subject not the practitioner along with a general lack of attention to the process involved in interaction in deep hypnosis, is the wildcard in this collection. Another putatively even more challenging paper calls into question the possibility of social inclusion and copartnership between indigenous and non-indigenous persons in Australian universities.
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Contributions
- Preface
Associate Professor Donna Pendergast
- Shaping the Future of Educational Research: Hypothesizing and Dreaming the Possibilities
Barbara Garrick, Shiralee Poed, James Skinner, & Sarah Standage- Taking the inner and outer journeys: Successfully completing your thesis
Emeritus Professor C.T. Patrick Diamond- Modernism vs Postmodernism: a critical narrativization of the Ph.D. journey. Is there an alternative?
Dr Wayne Usher- Managing Participation within a Novice Coaching Context
Brooke Reeves- Apprentice, collaborator, colleague, competitor: Negotiating the trajectory(ies) of a doctoral student
Kevin Larkin- Recognition for Female Surfers: Riding a Wave of a Sponsorship?
Roslyn Franklin- Reasonable Adjustment? The intersection between Australian disability discrimination legislation and parental perceptions of curriculum adjustments in Queensland Schools
Shiralee Poed and Associate Professor Deb Keen- Life pathways or lonely dead-ends? The transition from secondary school to post-school life for adolescents with vision impairment
Jane Brown- The potential barriers to college English assessment policy change in China: A sociocultural perspective
Qiuxian Chen- Different ways of being educator? A sociocultural exploration of professional identity and development of educators in a system of nontraditional flexible schooling
Ann Morgan- Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Partners in an Australian University: The Exclusive 'We' and Social Inclusion
Catherine M. Demosthenous- The influence of Disruptive Student Behaviour upon Teacher Stress and Burnout
Gerard Feltoe- Action research and embodied reflection in pre-service teacher education
Jeff Hawkins- Applying the wild triangle to teaching middle-tier science in a Queensland independent school
Anthony Fraser and Dr Fiona Bryer- Investigating Understandings of Hypnosis
Hellene Demosthenous