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0000-0002-4553-0289
Current Organisations
Macquarie University
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University of Technology Sydney
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators | Technical, Further and Workplace Education | Education Systems |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Education and Training Systems Policies and Development | Teacher and Instructor Development
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Publications
Workplace literacy and numeracy learning: An opportunity for trade union renewal in Australia?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
A tale of two councils: Alternative discourses on the 'literacy crisis' in Australian workplaces
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
DOI: 10.5172/IJTR.9.3.218
Adults’ numeracy practices in fluid and unstable contexts—An agenda for education, policy and research?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S40955-019-00145-Z
Abstract: Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present themselves for people’s numeracy development, explaining how cultural-historical activity theory can be used to analyse the effects of changes in numerate environments. We consider ex les of social trends likely to effect such changes and conclude with implications of shifts in people’s numerate environment for future educational provision, policy and research.
Problematizing the Imperative to Innovate: An Examination of Innovations in Adult Literacy
Publisher: ProLiteracy Worldwide
Date: 06-2023
Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-11-2016
Numeracy as Social Practice
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2018
VET teacher education in Australian universities: who are the students and what are their views about their courses?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2015
Shared delivery: Integrating ELT in Australian vocational education
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-12-2012
DOI: 10.1093/ELT/CCR086
Introduction
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
The Crisis of Higher Education: International and Australian
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Learning and adapting for organisational change: researching union education in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Shifting the Gaze: From the Numerate Individual to Their Numerate Environment
Publisher: ProLiteracy Worldwide
Date: 10-2021
What makes a good VET teacher? Views of Australian VET teachers and students
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Struggles Against the Precariousness and Fragmentation of Academic Work
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
The Australian Context and Background to the Research
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Intergenerational learning in climate change adaptations; limitations and affordances
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-02-2020
From Precarity to Security? ‘We’ve Got to Do a Better Job for the Casuals’
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Managerial Motivations and Contexts
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Engaging Aboriginal Families to Support Student and Community Learning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-01-2008
Silence in the Academy? Impacts of Role Fragmentation
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Research that counts: OECD statistics and 'policy entrepreneurs' impacting on Australian adult literacy and numeracy policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2016
Teaching and Research in the Twenty-First-Century University
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Between Immediacy and Imagination: the place of the educator and organiser in union renewal
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Conclusion
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Teaching about climate change: Possibilities and challenges in Australian adult literacy programs
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-11-2023
DOI: 10.1002/JAAL.1267
Abstract: Australia's natural environment poses challenges for human inhabitants and will continue to pose novel challenges in an era of climate change. However, the resources that people can access to respond to climate change are erse and unequally distributed. While this suggests a role for education, especially for those who are most socially and economically vulnerable, integrating climate change literacy into educational programs is not straightforward in all sectors. Studies have shown that increased standardization of curricula constrain teacher autonomy and pose dilemmas for teachers faced with tensions between curricular requirements and their professional judgment about appropriate pedagogy and curricula. This article considers the possibility of educational intervention for socially and economically disadvantaged adults with limited English language and literacy skills by investigating how a group of teachers in accredited literacy courses viewed their role in addressing climate change and environmental literacy in their literacy classes.
Implementing a Program in Sustainability for Engineers at University of Technology, Sydney: a story of intersecting agendas
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-2004
DOI: 10.1108/14676370410546411
Abstract: Integrating sustainability into an undergraduate engineering program at the University of Technology, Sydney has been a challenging project. The authors of this paper have been participant observers of the integration process. In this paper, they have attempted an analysis of that process, focussing on the dynamics of the network of people and interests, which have shaped the process. Actor network theory was used to provide an analytical framework for the analysis. The interests and experiences of the authors in the process necessarily influence the analysis. All three authors have been active in positioning sustainability as a central theme for the critique and practice of engineering. Paul Bryce and Stephen Johnston have had long‐standing involvement in technology transfer projects in development. Both have published on engineering as a social activity, critiquing the undue emphasis in engineering education on engineering science, at the expense of attention to engineering practice. Their experience and scholarship have given credibility to their efforts in the faculty to press for a new paradigm of engineering practice. Keiko Yasukawa is an educational developer in the faculty who has been working with staff and students to help them reflect on their idea of what engineering is about in their teaching and learning. She has taken a leading role in shaping the new curriculum.
Educating critical mathematics educators: Challenges for teacher educators
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2010
Production Workers' literacy and numeracy practices: using cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) as an analytical tool
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Level 3: another single measure of adult literacy and numeracy
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-05-2014
The literacy and numeracy ‘crisis’ in Australian workplaces: discursive rhetoric vs. production floor realities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2015
Changing conceptualisations of literacy and numeracy in lean production training: Two case studies of manufacturing companies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2014
Disturbing Practices: Training workers to be lean
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-09-2014
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities for expansive learning during organisational change. It considers the introduction of “lean production” as a disturbance to the existing work practices. – The paper considers two case studies of “lean production” training with production workers in manufacturing firms. Data for the study consisted of semi-structured interviews, observations of workers during work and training. Engeström’s third-generation cultural historical activity theory was used as the key theoretical tool for analysis. – The study found that the introduction of and training for “lean production” did not lead to expansive learning. The training did not afford spaces to address the fundamental contradictions between the “earning a living” and ”productivity” motives of work. – Further research on the different kinds of “spaces” for learning could lead to greater insights into the affordances of expansive learning in workplaces. In particular, the concept of “third space” is useful in such an endeavour. – Training designed to increase productivity could integrate more discussions about what workers themselves should expect to gain from increased productivity. – The paper presents a critical perspective on recent case studies of workplace training at a time when workforce development and “lean production” are uncritically promulgated as beneficial. It highlights the opportunities that exist for critical educators to make interventions in the interests of the workers.
A comparative analysis of national media responses to the OECD Survey of Adult Skills: policy making from the global to the local?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2017
Examining the zone of proximal development in learning and development for climate mitigation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Critical Perspectives on Adults' Mathematics Education
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2013
Commentary on Politicising Mathematics Education: Has Politices Gone too Far? Or not Far Enough?
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 13-10-2010
The literacy myth continues: Adapting Graff's thesis to contemporary discourses on adult 'foundations skills' in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-04-2014
Expanding and Deepening the Terrain: Numeracy as social practice
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2018
Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 24-06-2013
Abstract: Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about the objects and those that instruct visitors about how the visitors are expected by the museum to navigate through the exhibition. The ways in which visitors engage with these erse texts are important defining factors of the visitors’ museum experience.For museums, understanding how texts in their exhibitions are influencing the museum experience, and the possibility of a museum experience for the broad public community is important in the fulfilment of their public mission as cultural and education institutions. In this paper, we adopt a view of literacy as a social practice, the perspective of New Literacy Studies (NLS), that offers a fruitful way for museums to consider the interactions between exhibition texts and their audiences. Such considerations, we argue, can inform museums’ approaches to broadening their visitor demographics to more strongly fulfill their public mission. We show that the goals of NLS resonate with some of the goals of the New Museology movement in museum studies, a movement that aims to democratize what museums represent and how. From NLS, we employ the concept of a literacy event to describe an exhibition visit through a literacy lens, and the concept of a literacy mediator to examine the literacy event not exclusively as an in idual event, but a collectively produced event. The paper draws on data on how the literacy events of two groups of ‘non-traditional’ visitor groups were mediated in an exhibition, and show how they reveal the range of different literacies that visitors need to negotiate in a museum exhibition.
Literacy and the politics of representation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Academic casualization in Australia: class divisions in the University
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2010
Abstract: Casualization of teaching has become a major issue in Australian universities. In 1990 casuals delivered about a tenth of all university teaching. By 2008 between a third and a half of university teaching was being delivered by casuals. Quantitative studies have assessed the scale of casualization this qualitative study addresses the experience of casual academics. It documents a sharpening class ide among academics, which has become institutionally embedded. It reports on interviews with casual academics examining how the ide is experienced, and how it may be addressed. Academic casuals report underpayment and compromised quality they experience persistent income insecurity and they find themselves voiceless in the workplace. These experiences are interpreted as aspects of class subordination, and possibilities for addressing them are discussed.
The Role of National Media in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Policy: a Case Study from Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-01-2019
Seeing and hearing: Examining production workers' literacy and numeracy practices in a context of crisis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-04-2014
Disturbing the pedagogical status quo: LLN and vocational teachers working together
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2013
Teaching in post-compulsory education: skills, standards and lifelong learning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2009
Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2016–2019
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Beyond deficit approaches for integrating language, literacy and numeracy in Australian VET
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
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