Academic Contexts

SORTI members who publish in this area: Doug Absalom, Alan Barcan, Alie Brown, Shen Chen, Paola Favoro, Allyson Holbrook, Kathryn Grushka, Jo May, Neil Morpeth, Greg Preston, Ruth Reynolds, Hing Wa Sit

2009

Barcan, A. (2009) Halfway to heaven: Teacher training sixty years ago, Australian Quarterly, 81 (3), 25 – 29.

Barcan, A. (2009) Requiem for defunct magazines, Quadrant, November, 65 -74.[not ranked]

Barcan, A. (2009). Three pathways to change in NSW Education 1937-1952. Education Research and Perspectives, 36(2), 45 – 80. [Tier B]

 

Barcan, A. (2009). Wesley Null, Peerless Educator: The life and work of Isaac Leon Kandel (Book Review). History of Education Review, 38(1), 2009, pp. 92-3. [Tier A]

 

Chen, S. & Sit, H-W., (2009). A comparative study on the responses by international students towards the teaching strategies used in an Australian university, The International Journal of Learning, 16 (9), 495 - 504. [Tier B]

Chen, S. (2009). A comparative study on the responses by international students toward the teaching strategies used in Australian Universities. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Learning, 1-4 July, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Chen, S. (2009). Chinese language teacher training in multi-cultural environment.  Proceedings of 5th International Research Forum on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Beijing: Foreign Language and Teaching Press, pp 34-52.(ISBN 978-7-5600-8439-8)

Chen, S. (2009). Training Teachers of Chinese as a Second Language in Multicultural Setting. In Zhang, B. (Ed.) Chinese Language Education in Multi-cultural environment, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, pp.34-52.

Grushka, K. (2009). Exploring visual culture through discursive and performative visual art practices in the secondary school context, in Du Preez, A. (Ed.) Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, London, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 3-18.

Grushka, K. (2009). Meaning and Identities: A Visual performative pedagogy for socio-cultural learning. The Curriculum Journal, 20 (3), 237- 251.

May, J., Holbrook, A., Brown, A., Preston, G., & Bessant, B. (2009). Claiming a Voice:The First Thirty-Five Years of the Australian Teacher Education Association. Bathurst, NSW: Australian Teacher Education Association, ISBN 9780975232422, pp. 169.

Morpeth, N. (2009). Fluidity of the past and the present: Historians and ways of perceiving/understanding - Part 1, Teaching History, 43 (4) 18 - 25.

Reynolds, R., & Lane, S. (2009). Crossing boundaries between cultures and disciplines. Using Geography and Creative Arts to build bridges with community groups in one school. Refereed paper presented at ‘Teacher education crossing borders: Cultures, contexts, communities and curriculum’ the annual conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Albury, 28 June-1 July. Full paper

2008

Barcan, A. (2008). Forty years on: The ghosts of '68, AQ (Australian Quarterly), 80 (3), 31-37

Chen, S. (2008). Chinese research students’ adjustment to Australian learning environment,The International Journal of Learning15(1) 43-49.

Chen, S. (2008). Training teachers of Chinese as a second language in a multicultural setting. Paper presented at the International Research Symposium on Chinese Language Education in Multi-cultural environment. The National Research Centre for Chinese as a Second Language, BLCU and Beijing Normal University, 20 - 21 Dec, Zhuhai, China.

Chen, S. & Wang, J. (2008). Collaboration and confrontation between the East and West: Joint programs between Chinese universities and their Western partners.  Paper presented at the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Hawaii, 5 - 8 January.

Chen, S., & Wa Sit, H. (2008). ESL/EFL Teacher training in a multilingual learning environment. Paper presented at the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) 15th World Conference on Applied Linguistics, 24 – 29 August, Essen, Germany.

Chen, S., & Wa Sit, H. (2008). TESOL practicum in two cultures. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Congress, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Critical Dimensions in Applied Linguistics, 4 - 6 July, University of Sydney, NSW.

May, J. (2008). Puberty Blues and the representation of an Australian Comprehensive High School. History of Education Review,37(2), 61-67. [Tier A] Full paper

May, J. (2008). A challenging vision: Eros, agency and gender. Paper presented at The Heartbreak Kid,New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian identities and legacies ASA Conference 26-28 Nov, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

May. J. (2008). Father knows best: One woman’s transition from school to work in the late 1940s. Paper presented at Joint ANZHES-(UK) HES Conference, Dec 5-8, University of Sydney, NSW.

Morpeth, N. (2008). The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the attic Orators. Book Review, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 13 (1)120-121.

Morpeth, N. (2008). The legacy of Socrates. Book Review, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 13 (6) 785-786.

Morpeth, N. (2009). "Ancient philosophy: A new history of Western philosophy, Vol 1.  Book Review, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 14, 232-234.

Morpeth, N. (2008). Philosophical and historical explorations in times of war, ancient and modern: Thucydides, Alcibiades and Marc Bloch on ‘campaign’. Paper presented at the Revolving round the Platonic dialogue, Alcibiades 1, Australasian Society for Ancient Philosophy, 4 – 6 Dec, University of Newcastle.

Preston, G. (2008). Book Review. Louise Shaw, Making a Difference: A History of the Auckland College of Education 1881-2004, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2006, History of Education Review, 37(2), 84-85.

Sit, H.W., & Chen, S. (2008). Learning English language through interactions between non-native speakers. Paper presented at the33rd Annual Congress, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia,Critical Dimensions in Applied Linguistics, 4 - 6 July, University of Sydney, NSW.

Sit, H.W., & Chen, S. (2008) The cultural context of on-line teaching, Chinese Teaching in the World, 85, 99-104.

2007

Chen, S. (2007). Chinese research students' adjustment to the Australian learning environment. Paper presented at Learning 2007: The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 – 29 June.

Chen, S. (2007). Cultural issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Keynote Address at the International Research Symposia Chinese Language Education and Teacher Development organised by The Office of Chinese Language Council International, University of British Columbia, Canada, and The Educational Instruction Committee, Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, Shanghai, 2- 3 November.

Chen, S., & Wang, J. (2007). Collaboration and Confrontation: A longitudinal study on an exchange program of an Australian university with Chinese partners. Paper presented at ANZCIES 2007 International Cooperation through Education Conference, Auckland, 29 November – 2 December.

May, J., & Ramsland, J. (2007). The disenchantment of childhood: Exploring the cultural and spatial boundaries of childhood in three Australian feature films, 1920s-1970s. Historica Pedagogica, 43(1), 135-149

2006

Barcan, A. (2006). Postmodernism and the fractured curriculum. In P. Elias (Ed.) Postmodernism in education, Warrane Monograph Series, No 11, pp. 24-65, Warrane College: Sydney

Barcan, A. (2006). Students reshaping society: Sydney University 1967-1972. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, Armidale, NSW, 5 - 8 December.

Chen, S, (2006). Cultural Conflicts: Imposing western assessment tasks to replace EFL examinations in China. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5 – 8 July.

Chen, S., & Fu, M. (2006). Two major difficulties in the teaching of Chinese and the roles of Computer Assisted Language Learning. In Y. Q. Zheng (Ed.), Theoretic research on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Commercial Publication Co., Beijing, pp. 247-258.

May, J. (2006). A Field of desire: Images of education in Australian silent film. Paper presented at the ANZHES Conference: Education, Leadership and Community, Armidale, 5 – 8 December.

May, J. (2006). Imagining the secondary school: The ‘pictorial turn’ and representations of secondary schools in two Australian feature films of the 1970s, History of Education Review, 35, 13-22.

May, J. (2006). Insistent bodies versus the Rule: The representation of male sexualities and gender identities in “The Devil’s Playground”. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 10(1), 107-123.

May, J. (2006). Secrets and lies: Sex education and gendered memories of childhood’s end in an Australian provincial city, 1930s-1950s. Sex Education, 6, 1-15.

May, J., & Bennett, J. (2006). Guest Editors, ‘Introduction’, Screening the Past: Gender Readings in History and Film. Special Issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 10(1), i-ix.

May, J., & Holbrook, A., Preston, G., &  Bessant, B. (2006). Reflecting on writing the history of a professional association: the ATEA project. Paper presented at the ANZHES Conference, UNE, Armidale, 5 – 8 December.

Morpeth, N. (2006). Telling the 'truth' in times of war: Reflections upon Classical/Western traditions of thought, contemporaneity and the work of Marc Bloch (1886-1944). Paper presented at Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion & Culture, Catholic Institute of Sydney, NSW, 30 September – 2 October.

Morpeth, N. (2006). Thucydides’ War: Accounting for the face of conflict, George Olmes Verlag, Hildesheim, Germany and New York, pp. 348.

Wongsri, N., Cantwell, R., & Archer, J. (2006). Cultural factors in Thai tertiary students’ conceptions of self-directed learning: Some qualitative evidence. Paper presented at the 18th International Cross-Cultural Psychology Congress, Spetses, Greece, July 11-15.

2003-2005

Absalom, D., & Chen, S. (2004). Constructing Culture through Language and Literature. Paper presented at the CLESOL, The Ninth National Conference on Community Languages and ESOL. Christchurch, New Zealand, 24- 27 September.

Barcan, A. (2005). Asiatic Feudalism; A derivative Marxian Concept, Part 1, The Sydney Realist, July, pp. 15-15. Part 2, The Sydney Realist, pp. 9-12.

Barcan, A. (2005). The Trail of the False Petronius, Quadrant, October, pp. 71-73

Chen, S. (2003). Supervising Chinese students in an Australian University. Paper at the 7th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia University of NSW, Sydney.

Chen, S., Absalom, D. & Holbrook, A. (2003). Cultural conflict in PhD supervision. In P. Jeffery (ed.), AARE Mini-conference 2003 Conference Papers, Crowne Plaza, Newcastle, 2-4 October, 2003. Full paper

Debenham, J., & May, J. (2005). Making connections: A dialogue about learning and teaching in a tertiary enabling program. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 45(1), 82-104.

Favaro, P. (2004). Visual memory and its uses in the 'making of architecture' of a migrant architect as seen in St. Anthony's Marsfield, Sydney. Paper presented at the Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, Australia, 5 - 9 July.

Margalit, H., & Favaro, P. (2004). The local and the migrants: Limits of mutual recognition. Paper presented at Limits: 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Melbourne 26 - 29 September.

May, J (2003). Of secular nuns and worldly men: Australian students from two single-sex high schools recall their teachers in the 1930s to the 1950s. Published in French as Des "religieuses dans le siècle" et des hommes de ce monde: Les élèves australiens de deux établissements d'enseignement secondaire non mixtes se souviennent de leurs professeurs dans les années 1930-1950, translated Celine Grasser, Histoire de l'éducation, Special issue; Les enseignantes: formations, identités, représentations (XIXe-XXe siècles), Volume 98 Service de histoire de l'éducation, INRP, Paris, Fall 2003.

May, J. (2003). Educating Rita and Peter: Gender and a history of the Open Foundation Program, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1974-1994. Paper presented at the 10th Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Conference, Central Coast Campus, University of Newcastle, 27 June

May, J. (2003). Educating Rita and Peter: Gender and a history of the Open Foundation Program, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1974-1994. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 9(1), July, 2004, 129-147.

May, J. (2003). From idea to reality: A history of the Open Foundation Program, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, circa 1970-1978. In H. Anderson (ed.), Bridging Education in New Zealand: Proceedings of the inaugural conference of the New Zealand Association of Bridging Educators. Manukau, New Zealand, September 2003, pp. 120-135.

May, J. (2004). 'Only to open all of its universities a little wider': The establishment of the Open Foundation Program at the University of Newcastle, 1970 -1978, a case study of widening tertiary participation in Australia at the start of the globalisation era. Paper presented at the The National Conference of Enabling Educators: Building Foundations, Newcastle, NSW, 14 - 16 July.

May, J. (2005). A child of change: The establishment of the Open Foundation Program in 1974. History of Education Review, 34(1), 51-62.

Morpeth, N. (2004). Bridging/Enabling pathways and the idea of the university: Teaching the history of ideas and life-long learning? Paper presented at the The National Conference of Enabling Educators: Building Foundations, Newcastle, NSW, 14 - 16 July 2004.

Morpeth, N. (2004). History and 'future-making': Jack Lindsay, Western Traditions of Thought and the History of Ideas. Paper presented at the Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, Australia, 5 - 9 July 2004.

Morpeth, N. (2005). Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, The Historian's Craft and World War II: Writing and teaching contemporary history. European Legacy, 10(3).

Preston, G. (2004). A Hhstory of doctoral studies: Purposes and definitions. Paper presented at the Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, Australia, 5 - 9 July 2004.

Preston, G. (2004). The establishment and early development of Newcastle Teachers' College. Paper presented at the Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle.