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On Education’ is a podcast series on innovative research by real-world educators, and presented by the QUT Faculty of Education at the Executive Dean’s Seminar Series. New teaching methods, indigenous education and early childhood education are some of the many topics covered in this series.

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    • Aug 10, 2011 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 4m AVG DURATION
    • 11 EPISODES


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    Primary Connections - making a difference to primary school science education

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2011 64:00


    Shelley Peers, the QUT 2010 Outstanding Alumni Award winner for Education, speaks about the Primary Connections program - its aims, underlying philosophy, and impact.

    Stronger Smarter Approaches to Indigenous Education

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2010 110:16


    The Stronger Smarter Learning Communities project is a national landmark project emphasising high-expectations and relational approaches to Indigenous Education in a range of targeted school sites across Australia. This seminar evaulates and critiques the project, and explores its impact amongst indigenous communities.

    Enhancing the authenticity and sustainability of assessment of and for learning

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2009 76:28


    This seminar considers some of the tensions inherent in policy initiatives related to school assessment practice in England currently, and presents an example from developments in distance learning assessment practice at the Open University in England to enhance the authenticity of assessment, to ensure its functional role and formative potential for masters’ level students studying the course ‘Curriculum, learning and society: investigating practice’.

    Recalling, Rethinking and Rewriting: Using Pedagogical Patterns to Sustain Course Renewal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2009 76:52


    This lively seminar will discuss working examples of pedagogical patterns, where they are derived from and where they are used in practice. Hear speakers debate the key issues involved in using pedagogical patterns: the induction and development of teaching staff; the collaboration across a distributed workforce; and embedding innovation within traditional institutional and course structures.

    A musical journey inspired by education

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2009 52:01


    Rhonda Davidson-Irwin’s unique approach to music and education will inspire you to follow your own journey in whichever direction it takes you. Rhonda was recently a guest of the Chinese and Russian governments and travelled to their countries to educate and perform.

    oz-Teachernet 2.0: Redefining online education through emerging technologies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2008 58:39


    The oz-Teachernet has been a test bed for award-winning ideas and approaches in digital pedagogy which have been increasingly adopted by the mainstream. Dr Margaret Lloyd and Dr Shaun Nykvist speak on this technology and its impact in the classroom.

    Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2008 51:05


    This talk by Professor Kerry Mallan of QUT's Faculty of Education will canvass a range of issues relevant to the lives of young people growing up in a network society. In particular, the discussion will draw on a current Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research project as well as other research to illustrate the ways in which youth give accounts of themselves and interact with friends and others in online networks such as MySpace, Facebook, MSN, and blogging sites.

    Good Thinking: Great Outcomes. Buranda State School

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2008 52:26


    Lynne Hinton is principal of Buranda State School in Brisbane. She has led the school through a process of exciting and innovative curriculum and pedagogical reform, resulting in outstanding outcomes for students, teachers and the school itself. This presentation gives an insight into learning at Buranda State School, and describes the changes that have occurred as a result of teaching philosophy to all students over the past decade.

    Public-private partnerships: Enterprising knowledge and the school(ed) body

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2007 55:33


    Recent events in our own and other higher education institutions show how knowledge is an ambiguous and contested terrain. In this seminar Associate Professor Kapitzke will discuss her current work in the area of knowledge cultures within a context of global ‘innovation’ economies.

    Starting strong in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): How does Australia measure up?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2007 51:14


    This seminar situates early learning and care policy and research in Australia in an international context. Distinctive policy approaches exist to support work and family life, early childhood education and care in different parts of the world.

    Crossroads and Contestations. Transglobal Explorations in Postcolonial Education

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2007 64:00


    Associate Professor Anne Hickling-Hudson considers how her double location as a Caribbean/Australian citizen places her, as a researcher, in a crossroads constituted by the pull of origins and the imperatives of an institution on the other side of the world.

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