Navigating in a sea of change
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Navigating in a sea of change

Second set of working papers of the Higher Education Policy Project

Edited by Merle Warry, Peter O’Brien, John Knight, and Carol Swendson.
ISBN: 1-875998-08-X 182pp
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Navigating in a sea of Change addresses the uncertainty and turbulence of Australian Higher Education from the Dawkins regime to the end of the federal Labor regime. That uncertainty and turbulence so characteristic of our postmodern times is addressed across the various dimensions and aspects of higher education by our contributors.

Navigating in a Sea of Change is the second volume of working papers produced from the Higher Education Policy Project and follows on from the prior collection, Higher Education in Transition. The title theme is taken from a short chapter by Professor Brian Wilson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1978 to 1995. Indeed, more broadly, navigating education in a sea of change may be seen as a thematic concern of this volume which expands the original policy focus of higher education into many cognate areas of education policy as former fixed categories of research leak and become more fluid.

Some of the wide cross-section of topics by the fifteen papers in this collection are:

  • indigenous social policy and higher education
  • women's place in Australian Open Learning
  • non-government tertiary institutions in Australia
  • a brief history of FAUSA
  • access, equity and social justice in higher education
  • the case of teacher education in Australia
  • public discourse and education decision making
  • policy "ghosting' in the reform agenda
  • assessing literacy
  • performance indicators in higher education
  • Labor policy regime and its dilemmas 1987-1995

This book is required reading for all those who want to understand the complexities of Australian Higher Education and the challenges it faces in the future.

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Contributions

  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  1. Re-visioning research and knowledge for the 21st century
    Bernadette Walker-Gibbs and Bruce Allen Knight
  2. Television: The politics of control and inhabited resistance
    Wendy Davis
  3. Celebrity names/brand names: Nicole Kidman, Chanel no. 5 and commodification
    Jeannette Delamoir and Tanya Nittins
  4. Appropriation theory and Australian literary studies: A position paper
    Susan Bassett and Wally Woods
  5. A million little differences: polysemy, performativity and posthumanism in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
    Stephen Bulter
  6. Knowledge renewal in the 21st century: developing a professional network of biology teachers
    Simone Eiser and Bruce Allen Knight
  7. Beginning teacher socialization in the workplace: Some perspectives from the literature
    Jeanne Allen
  8. Online discussions: perceptions of pre-service teachers of the role of online discussions in tertiary studies
    Rosie-Marie Thrupp and John Hunt
  9. Staff perceptions of the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems in three Australian universities
    Marilyn Fisher and Bernadette Walker-Gibbs
  10. Language learning strategy assessment: the development of a task based inventory for learners of Japanese in a foreign language learning environment
    Peter Grainger
  11. Perspectives on implementing a New Technology Syllabus in Queensland schools
    Jenny O'Loughlin and Phil Bretherton
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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