2006
Helen Edwards 'Using metaphors with today's learners'
Thursday 14th September 12.30pm - 1pm, PDaL Seminar Room
Abtract: Early childhood students enter TAFE and university settings with a unique set of experiences and approaches to learning. To address these needs it is important to have an awareness of the factors that motivate them and how they prefer to learn. Their approaches to learning will influence their understanding of the materials presented and how concepts are explored. The aim of this paper is to examine the use of a range of metaphors to engage learners and help them to unlock the meanings of abstract concepts. The examples used will be drawn from practice-based research in early childhood settings. Our experiences in working with today's learners affirm the claims made by Amy Reichert (2004:174): 'We cannot tell our students how to write, but we can facilitate their own discovery … we can provide them with tools which they decide for themselves when and how to use.'
Timor-Leste Symposium - Education in Post Conflict Environments: Challenges and Opportunties for Timor Leste
Wednesday 3rd May - PDaL Seminar Room
The abstracts and MP3 files from the Symposium can be downloaded from the Timor symposium site.
News Article: UNE Symposium to discuss the role of education in rebuilding East Timor
CRAMS Seminar Series
12pm June 8th School of Health Seminar Room: Associate Professor Rafat Hussain - Developing and Managing a Multi-Institutional Research Project: A Case Study of the Intellectual Disabilities. To download the abstract click here
12pm March 8th PDaL Seminar Room: Ms Glenda Kupczyk-Romanczuk and Dr Greg Carroll - Research and Peace Building in our Community: Timor Leste - What Collegial Support can Achieve. To download the abstract click here
2005
CRAMS supported Visiting Fellow, Jack Beetson in a two day workshop (26th-29th April 2005). Themes of the workshop included
Click here to download Jack Beetson's speech to the UNESCO Confintea Conference in 1997
Dr Bob Boughton presented a Seminar on Indigenous Rights and Australian Communism
24th May 2005 in the School of Professional Development and Leadership seminar room. To download the abstract click here.
Members associated with CRAMS presented papers at the following conferences:
Australian Research in Early Childhood Education (Brooks - 2 papers) in Melbourne;
Annual Conference of the European Society for Human Genetics (Hussain)
in Prague;
MCEETYA Forum on Indigenous Education (Boughton) in Canberra;
Inaugural East Timor Studies Conference (Boughton) in Melbourne;
International Society for Cultural and Activity Research Conference (Brooks) in Seville;
International Art and Early Childhood Conference (Brooks) in London;
International Conference on Researching Work and Learning (Edwards) in Coffs Harbour;
XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Hussain) in Tours;
Fifth Women's Health Australian Conference - Reflecting on Gender/Confronting the Evidence (Hussain) in Melbourne;
16th International Nursing Research Congress (Parmenter) in Hawaii;
EECERA 15th Annual Conference (Spence) in Dublin.
Dr Rebecca Spence also presented a keynote address at the Robert Hawke Centre for Social Sustainability entitled 'Building relationships across deep divisions: The challenge of achieving social sustainability in war torn societies'.
Presentations were also made by Dr Rebecca Spence to the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, AusAid and Australian Volunteers International.