Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara and Steve Redhead explore the phrases 'research active' and 'research inactive.'  They discuss how these phrases used in higher education and what strategies can be enacted to ensure that academics are supported to write and contribute to knowledge.

Anne, Tara and Steve continue their discussion of Anne's thesis on the theories of 'professionalism' in early childhood education.  Anne talks through her research questions, while Steve and Tara probe the consequences of empiricism and digitization on her research.

Tara talks with the remarkable Karyn Callaghan.  They discuss the time and space of and for the child.  Karyn also explains the value of visual arts and documentation in recognizing and affirming the rights of the child.

Tara talks with umar umangay, from the School of Teacher Education's Burlington campus.  They discuss the role and function of postcolonialism in teacher education, with the goal and imperative to decolonize the curriculum.

Tara talks with the staff at the School of Teacher Education's Burlington campus in Canada about professional development.  She asks the staff to explore how digitization has transformed PD in terms of time management, range of opportunities and the nature of expertise.

Tara talks with colleagues in the School of Teacher Education at the Burlington campus about the nature of 'innovation' in education.  What is innovation and - more importantly - how do we as teachers enact it?

Tara talks with colleagues at the Burlington campus of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University.  These staff - and our students - are in a special environment.  They work in a Canadian campus of an Australian university.  Such an institution offers an evocative world view and perspective on the potential of international education.

Tara talks with Anne for this seventh installment of her PhD podcast series.  Three months into her doctorate, Anne's supervisors - Tara and Steve Redhead - are about to prepare her for writing the proposal.  This podcast explores Anne's trajectory so far and enables her movement into the proposal.  The questions to Anne are live and tough.  Her answers and clear and inspirational.

Tara talks with Maria Hatzigianni about her journey to Charles Sturt University and her research in early childhood education.  There is particular attention to play as a mode and method for learning.

Tara talks with Marilyn about the value to students and communities of regional and remote placements.  

Anne and Tara explore how anchorage operates on images.  There is attention to the complex and contradictory relationship between images and meaning in the iconography of teaching and teachers.  

Tara and Loraine explore how interventions operate in Early Childhood Education.  How and why do we change the lives of disadvantages children?

Associate Professor David McKinnon talks with Tara about science education:  why he was drawn to it, and why it matters for contemporary students and the contemporary society.

Anne talks with Tara and Steve about the challenges involved in applying semiotics to education research.

Tara and Steve Redhead talk about Wellington, in Aotearoa / New Zealand.  They explore city imaging and the specific creative industries agendas and policies in Wellington.  Particular attention is placed on the transformative effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the very specific urbanity of Wellington.

Anne McLeod and Tara are joined by Steve Redhead for this week's podcast.  Anne explores the role of visuality in her PhD and probes strategies to enable analysis and interpretation, rather than description, of these rich materials.

Tara Brabazon and Anne McLeod discuss how unobtrusive research methods are applied to the study of early childhood education in Australia.

Tara talks with international visitors to Charles Sturt University from the University of East London.  Carolyn Silberfeld and Paulet Brown explore the changing nature of international early childhood education.

Anne talks with Tara about her PhD.  They explore unobtrusive research methods and their appropriateness to educational resesearch.

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project:  the retention project at Charles Sturt University in Australia.  In this final podcast, Tara asks them about the legacy of their project and how they have been personally and professionally transformed by their research.

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about the STAR project at Charles Sturt University.  In this fourth podcast, they talk about difference and diversity.  How does the widening participation agenda impact retention?

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their first year widening participation and retention project.  This third podcast in the series explores assessment.  How can effective assessment for first year students enable both learning and retention?

Tara talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project on widening participation and retention.  In this second podcast, Georgina and Liam demonstrate the powerful - indeed causal - relationship between attendance and achievement.

Tara introduces Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing and their STAR project.  This is a widening participation project and they explore the strategies to enable attendance. 

Tara asks Steve Redhead why graduate students should read Erving Goffman.  He probes the strengths and weaknesses of Goffman for current researchers.