Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara and Anne talk about the next stage and next chapter of her PhD.  Particularly, we enter the terrain of professional development for early childhood educators and teachers?  But - in this female-dominated profession - is there a promotion of 'personal' rather than 'professional' development?

Fitbit culture, the quantified self and self monitored fitness are configured as movement monitoring activities for the young.  But how are senior citizens using the fitbit?  Tara talks with her 87 year old father Kevin about his use of the fitbit and how it has changed his understanding of movement, health and fitness.

What is happening to FIFA?  Why are there so many drug scandals in cycling and the myriad codes of football?  Do the global sporting events still regenerate and lift a city and region?  Steve and Tara talk through the concept of 'sporting claustropolis' to describe and understand what is happening to global and globalizing sport.

Do we have agency?  Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency.  Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek.  Who will he convince in this argument without end?

How do teachers and students share their expectations and outcomes about assessment?  Dr Jae Major takes colleagues through the methods and strategies to ensure that students and academics can share their assumptions about academic text types.

Tara and Steve get stroppy (again), pondering the nature of ethics committees - and research ethics more generally - in the neoliberal university.

Particular methods are fashionable, and then move out of fashion. Tara and Steve talk about ethnography, the disco of research methods.  But as ethnography moves beyond its fame and height in the 1970s, how can it reconfigure and refresh for the 2010s?

It is time for feminist physical cultural studies.  Steve and Tara introduce Peta Johnston and her doctoral thesis.  Peta is interested in researching women, sexuality, bodies and digitization.  Physical cultural studies provides the frame and impetus for this study. Social media provides the foundation. This exciting thesis begins now.  Join us on this special journey.

What is a human 'worth'?  What does equality actually mean?  Dr Tace Vigliante, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, takes these questions as her focus, to develop a social justice education.

Transitions are crucial to education. Dr Libbey Murray, from the Dubbo campus of the School of Teacher Education, explores what academics can learn from the transitional experiences of kindergarten children when thinking about first year teaching and learning in a university.

The calibre of higher education requires the maintenance of standards and the protection of academic integrity.  Tara, in this third podcast in her academic misconduct series, offers advice to academic managers.  They must manage and monitor the process with ethics, respect and care.  Tara helps academic managers ensure a strong process for students, staff and the higher education sector.

What advice can help students manage academic integrity and information literacy, or a charge of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct?  Tara helps students move through an academic misconduct process and offers clear advice to enable a productive resolution.

Tara presents the first session in her series exploring academic misconduct in our universities. This professional development session is geared for academics. Teachers in our universities are the first responders to academic misconduct.  But what is the role of an academic in cases of plagiarism and collusion?  Tara talks through this role, alongside presenting the risks and challenges that flood...

Tara introduces her professional development series on academic misconduct.  This introductory session defines the terms 'academic misconduct,' 'academic integrity,' 'plagiarism' and 'collusion' to reveal their role in enabling quality and excellence in higher education.

The University of Google has been recognized by Ashgate as a book that transformed its field.  Tara talks about this monograph, sharing how it was written and how it activated new relationships between cultural studies, media studies and information literacy. A weblink to this book is here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670971

How has football transformed through globalization and digitization?  Steve Redhead talks with Tara about his new book for Routledge, Football and Accelerated Culture:  This Modern Sporting Life .   For further details about the book plese refer to the website for this book:  http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138923157/    

Probably the greatest challenge in the completion of a PhD is reaching - and sustaining - the intellectual level of a doctorate.  It is particularly tough to keep the level high while teaching undergraduate students.  Anne McLeod, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss this challenge.  How do we stretch and move from teaching first year students through to high quality doctoral research?

Why was there a riot in Baltimore?  Were memes involved?  Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.

Why study music?  Tara Brabazon talks with Oriana Zanon about music education.  What is the value of music to pre-service teacher education students?

In a provocative reversal, Leanne interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond.  Leanne is interested in the past, present and future of cultural studies and her questions probe the effectiveness of this paradigm in a tough era for higher education.

Anne McLeod, from CSU's School of Teacher Education Dubbo campus, talks about the role of the creative and performing arts in teacher education.  She shows the significance of community partnerships and the value - at the level of skill and knowledge - in enabling the creative arts in higher education.

Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research.  Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers.  And for once - they agree.

Professor Melanie Walker, from the Free State University in South Africa, explores how our understandings of higher education transform when deploying the capabilities approach to teaching and learning.

Steve, Anne and Tara are back together again, celebrating the completion of Anne's first chapter and foreshadowing her next chapter.  We discuss methods, ethics and the role of curriculum studies in the formulation of professionalism, and the teaching profession.   Put another way, why is Anne using Unobtrusive Research Methods rather than conducting a participant observation of crack use?

Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'