80 research outputs found
Initial teacher education and the New Zealand curriculum.
No full textNew Zealand teacher educators are faced with the challenge of how to prepare their student teachers to become beginning teachers who are able to base their teaching upon the national curriculum. To meet this challenge, designers of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes need to consider the interface between ITE curriculum and the legislated curriculum for schools. This paper looks at some of the historical influences upon the curriculum in both initial teacher education and schools by examining wider contextual influences. We point out that in ITE there has been an ongoing search for the most appropriate knowledge base for teaching, a search that is made problematic due to differing views of knowledge, teaching and learning We argue that in spite of these differences, there is benefit in an ITE curriculum that has a close relationship with the school curriculum in terms of what is learned and the teaching and learning approaches. New Zealand has a revised national curriculum for schools (Ministry of Education, 2007) that schools are expected to implement from 2010. In preparing student teachers to become beginning teachers, ITE providers are in a phase of designing learning experiences that link ITE curriculum and school curriculum. This process is problematic, for there are various internal and external pressures that lead to a crowded ITE curriculum and challenge ITE autonomy and innovation in curriculum decision-making
Citizenship and state succession in the Sudans
No full textBronwen Manby is senior programme adviser on Africa with the Open Society Foundations, and author of two books on nationality law in Africa. She is an expert adviser on citizenship for UNHCR’s Khartoum office and wrote an article on citizenship issues and the options for resolving them in advance of the secession of South Sudan. She is currently on sabbatical leave, based in the Centre for Human Rights at LSE. This post also appears on the Open Society Foundations blog
L'histoire face à l'anthropologie : le passé colonial indigène revisité
No full textHistory vs. Anthropology: the indigenous colonial past revisited. The critical history implemented here compares and questions 19th century colonial documents and contemporary ethnographic writings pertaining to the same event that took place in New-Caledonia in 1862. This approach is both scientific as well as political, for the author intends to reconstruct the specific character of indigenous (kanak) action and argumentation as it has remained inscribed in the form of traces in Western texts.■ Bronwen Douglas : L'histoire face à l'anthropologie : le passé colonial indigène revisité. L'histoire critique ici mise en œuvre confronte et questionne des documents coloniaux du xixe siècle et des écrits ethnographiques contemporains relatifs à un même événement survenu en 1862 en Nouvelle-Calédonie. La perspective est autant scientifique que politique puisque l'auteur entend restituer la spécificité de l'action et de l'argumentation indigènes (kanak) telle qu'elle reste inscrite - à l'état de traces - dans les textes occidentaux.Douglas Bronwen. L'histoire face à l'anthropologie : le passé colonial indigène revisité. In: Genèses, 23, 1996. Histoire politique, histoire du politique II, sous la direction de Alban Bensa et Éric Wittersheim. pp. 125-144
Beyond the Rockton Window: remembering author and painter Helen Haenke, 19 Mar 2017
No full textA talented artist and writer of poetry, plays and prose, Helen Haenke was an influential figure in Ipswich from the 1940s to 1978. The family's historic house Rockton was her creative sanctuary. The panel discussion around the works and life of Helen Haenke was led by UQ Honorary Senior Research Fellow Bronwen Levy, with Helen's daughter Margot Rayner and local Ipswich resident and drama teacher Helen Pullar. Introdcution by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Rix. UQ Press released an anthology of Helen Haenke's work, Helen Haenke at Rockton - A creative life, which was on sale at the event. This event was supported by Ipswich City Council, University of Queensland Library, Ipswich Poetry Feast and University of Queensland Press
Preventing statelessness among migrants and refugees: birth registration and consular assistance in Egypt and Morocco
No full textThis paper presents a synthesis of research findings on the identification needs of Sub-Saharan African and other migrants and refugees in Egypt and Morocco, particularly focusing on children born outside the country of nationality of their parents. The paper sets out the legislative and regulatory frameworks in place for birth registration and issue of identity documents, and reports the findings of focus groups and interviews with migrants and refugees on the implementation of these frameworks in practice, highlighting obstacles to the registration of the births of children of foreign parents and the difficulties of obtaining documents from the consular authorities of the country of origin. The paper provides recommendations for legal and administrative reform in Egypt and Morocco, to ensure that both children and adults can have access to documents that officially confirm their nationality. The research is set within the context of international policy objectives and discussions on the provision of ‘legal identity to all’, highlighting the dangers of exclusion and statelessness if the obstacles identified by the report are not addressed. About the Author Bronwen Manby is Senior Policy Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Principal Investigator for the research project ‘Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa’. She has written extensively on nationality and statelessness in Africa
But the learning has already passed: Rethinking the role of time in e-mediated learning settings
No full textTime takes on a different character when online teachers take advantage of the possibilities for interactions occurring over different scales of time. Online teachers' pedagogical link-making becomes cumulative and progressive. This article reports on a qualitative case study of a fully online postgraduate course in Educational Research Methods within a New Zealand tertiary institution where the intention was to develop a learning communtity. The study was framed within a lecturer-researcher colllaborative approach to facilitate online lecturer devel;opment. Data collected from the online postings between lecturers and students, and among students and lecturer and student interviews, revealed how postings that point towards previous group ideas, current developing ideas and forward-focused ideas at pivotal points in the course supported student reflection, collaboration, and provided for socio-emotional support albeit in different ways and means. The authors argue that there is value in explicitly considering the mediating role of time when learning is understood as multidimensional and cumulative and provide implications for further research and practice
Multimodal ways of eliciting students' voice.
No full textFor some time researchers have been exploring how students might best be supported to express their ideas, opinions and feelings and to demonstrate what they know and can do. In this paper, we discuss some of the implications of sociocultural view of learning for how classroom research is conducted and describe some of the approaches we have used to generate information on student classroom experiences. Over the course of our work we have found that the use of multiple and multimodal data generation methods allows student with different interests and abilities to take an active part in research. We then detail some of the challenges and rewards involved in working with students in these ways as part of a research agenda focused on enhancing teaching and learning
Masters; programme of specialised workshops and artists’ talks by artists leading in the field of printmaking research
No full textMasters is a new programme of events to be hosted and facilitated by Artlab Contemporary Print Studios. Its aim is to explore and engage printmaking through practice led research.
The programme took place during April and May 2018. Three artists were selected and invited to give an artist talk followed by a one day or two day master class.
Each workshop event utilised in the unique way the extensive facilities of Artlab Contemporary Print Studios. The master class session was programmed to compliment and enhance the research activity currently being undertaken in the studios and was open to BA/MA students from a range of disciplines across school as well as to external professional practitioners and educators.
Practical sessions explored personal research methods, expanding knowledge of traditional print process while exploring new ways of making under the guidance of invited professional cross-disciplinary artists.
Bronwen Sleigh – was our first guest artist, she is a multi-disciplinary artist who takes inspiration from industrial architecture, unused and forgotten urban spaces, and environments at the edge of the city. Her work provokes an extended and considered dialogue with these spaces, which she transforms through the processes of her practice.
Through traditional etching and drawing processes she creates images and objects, which resonate with the energy of these inhuman lands. Sleigh’s work explores space rather than describing it, challenging perceptions of the ordinary by presenting it in an unfamiliar way.
The master class focused on the use of colour and two-plate etching. Participants learnt practical skills of how to register two etching plates using traditional soft ground as well as exploring and experiment with colour printing.
Emma Gregory was our second Master – Emma studied drawing and printmaking at Sir John Cass, Central School of Art and UCLan. Between 2003 and 2013 she taught printmaking in Liverpool and re-established the Bluecoat’s print studios and continues to teach across the UK. Emma’s work brings together the worlds of Fine Art, Bio Sciences and Museum Collections. In 2015 Emma was resident artist at Victoria Gallery and Museum in Liverpool working with the Museum collections and fine art curators. The new body of work created during this time then formed the starting point for a residency at the Grafisch Atelier Alkmaar where for 6 weeks Emma studied traditional stone Lithography and the art of drawing.
Emma’s talk and two-day Master class focused on research led practice through the act of drawing. Combining traditional stone lithography and collaborative drawing exercises participants explored concepts about: What makes an artist? What do collaborative projects bring to a practice (and how to afford them)? when do you have your best ideas? What roles might improvisation, fear and collaboration play in your research? How do you expand your mark-making lexicon to the point where it becomes the most versatile tool in your (research) kit? How do these techniques relate to 'contemporary drawing’?
Our final Master was David Armes – David is a graphic artist working with letterpress printing, language and geography and author of redplatepress.com
His work is frequently site-specific and considers how sense of space and place can be represented, considering his practice to be socially engaged using the equipment and spectacle of letterpress printing as both physical installation and production space.
David’s two-day master class taught practical skills in traditional letterpress as well as challenging ideas around mass production processes and the idea of the multiple to create contemporary unique paper works
Page, print, JPEG: researching and curating Picture Post, its history and publics
No full textThis article discusses methodological reflections underpinning an integrated research and curation strategy addressing the history of the British magazine, Picture Post (1938-57). The dispersed Picture Post archive includes the extensive collection of negatives, prints, contact sheets, publications and daybooks held by the Hulton Archive – part of the multinational visual content provider, Getty Images. Today, however, just a handful of familiar images from Picture Post are recirculated in print and online as visual shorthand for collective memories of twentieth-century Britain. Comprising an exhibition in 2025, online educational resources and an events programme, this project will deliver new historiographic insights into and public engagement with the seminal publication. Charting the magazine and archive’s development, this article explores innovative approaches to research and curation that examine the business of photojournalism in Britain, the public circulation of photographs, and narratives representative of Picture Post’s international outlook and social democratic ethos
Immigration Detention and Release Decisions in Canada: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Risk Assessment Tool for Frontline Officers
No full textImmigration detention systems face mounting pressure to demonstrate transparent and defensible decision-making practices amid growing ethical concerns. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has drawn particular scrutiny in this area, largely due to its partnerships with correctional agencies. Critics challenge CBSA's framework for placing noncitizens in these facilities, characterizing its risk assessment processes as opaque and arbitrary. To address these limitations, we developed the Immigration Risk Assessment for Detention (IRAD), an empirically informed tool designed to meet CBSA's multiple decision-making needs—from release on community-based alternatives to detention (ATDs) to security classification level within detention facilities. This dissertation presents research conducted across three co-authored articles, each representing a distinct phase in the IRAD’s development and preliminary validation. First, we surveyed 92 CBSA employees to gather their insights on immigration detention risk assessment. Second, we developed a 30-item numerical IRAD prototype by integrating our survey results with CBSA’s operational guidance and correctional risk assessment research. We then conducted a longitudinal retrospective validation of the IRAD prototype using 301 case files, which provided preliminary support for its use. The IRAD's Danger to Public and Unlikely to Appear domains showed good to excellent interrater reliability, and the latter domain predicted ATD violations with moderate accuracy. Concordance analyses revealed misalignments between client risk and CBSA's purportedly risk-based decisions. The IRAD and CBSA's current security classification tool also showed similar concordance with security classification decisions. Finally, we adapted the IRAD prototype for operational use, creating a 21-item structured professional judgement tool. We then explored the potential operational utility of this tool in a mixed prospective-retrospective pilot with CBSA employees. Though low officer engagement prevented robust evaluation, we found further evidence of misalignment between risk and decisions. A noise audit with client vignettes also revealed inconsistencies among officers during the risk identification, risk analysis, and decision-making processes for ATD determinations. As the IRAD consolidates CBSA's operational resources, our research suggests that decisions are influenced by other factors, which may be extraneous given the inconsistencies identified in our noise audit. The IRAD's streamlined, empirically informed design and preliminary evidential support may therefore help CBSA better align its decisions with risk
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