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19.00 –
21.00
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‘Welcoming Session’
We invite all conference participants who are already in Melbourne or who live around here to a ‘coming to know you…’ get-together at oases/Augustine Centre/Borderlands. We’ll be glad to introduce you all to the premises and to our stories and to one another and will try and tune in – in a ‘participatory way’, of course – to the spirit of the conference.
Drinks and nibbles are on the house, but if you need something more substantial: BYO.
(no extra cost to conference participants but we would appreciate RSVP to help with catering)
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oases/Augustine/Borderlands
2 Minona Street, Hawthorn |
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| 08.30am |
Registrations – in the foyer of the Manton Rooms, Menzies Building |
09.00am |
Beginnings /Entering & Acknowledgement of traditional land owners - oases Graduate School team
Our intention is to allow entering in and opening up the conference space and mood - a welcoming session to connect the ‘outside’ with the ‘inside’ and with each other.
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
09.30am |
WELCOME
- Bruce Missingham, International Development & Environmental Analysis Program, Monash University
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
| 09.35am |
oases Graduate School team
Foreshadowing the participatory/dialogic and critical pedagogic emergent in the conference gathering – the two integrative sessions, the visual troubadour and the reflective room.
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
| 09.45am |
Mike Newman
"Propoganda, polemic and one-sided education: a defence"
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
10.30 am |
Peter Taylor (IDS, Sussex)
“Being the change we wish to see in others:
Re-imagining the Higher Education curriculum for human and social development”
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
11.15 am |
MORNING TEA Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
11.45 am |
SHORT PAPER PRESENTATIONS |
Barbara Bee
(UTS)
“Doing business with an educator’s heart”
[Room SG02]
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Debra Manning
(Monash University)
“Learning to value difference in higher education”
[Room SG03] |
Mick Houlbrook
(University of Western Sydney)
“Partnership as ‘social solidarity’ in defence of critical practice”
[Room SG04] |
John Elmore
(West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
"Neo-Liberalism and Teacher Education: Systematic Barriers to Critical Pedagogy"
[Room SG05] |
Roberto Torres
(Wagga CSC)
“An integrated approach for social work students' field education”
[Room SG02] |
Katerin Berniz
(Flinders University)
“How are ideas of Critical Pedagogy, transformative and dialogic learning being interpreted and put into practice in university, TAFE and other tertiary contexts?”
[Room SG03] |
Jen Couch
(Australian Catholic University)
“Go South Young People: Exploring the conscientisation experience of youth work students in India”
[Room SG04] |
Ian Dinning
(UNISA)
"Generative processes and payoffs throughout the lifecycles of community and educational media projects"
[Room SG05] |
12.45 pm |
LUNCH Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
| 1.30 pm |
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS |
Bob Boughton
(UNE)
“Opportunities and challenges we face in developing university-based popular education courses which link activist educators in Australia with their counterparts in countries of the region”
[Room SG02] |
Pru Gell
Holly Hammond
Anthony Kelly
(The Change Agency)
“Debunking praxis: defining our educational philosophy and making it real”
[Room SG03] |
Jude Westrup
(Deakin University)
“Participative and transformative postgraduate learning and teaching”
[Room SG03] |
Wendy Sutherland-Smith
Robert Haworth
Ann Ryan
(Monash University)
“Moving to subvert neoliberal agendas: Reclaiming dialogic spaces in education”
[Room SG03] |
| 3.00 |
AFTERNOON TEA Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
3.30 –
Finish at
5.00 pm |
Mark Boulet
Kat Lavers
(Monash University)
“Critical Waste Audits? An attempt at participatory training ”
[Room SG02] |
Keiko Yasukawa
(UTS)
Mathematics and Power: Messing around with the Politics of Numbers
[Room SG05] |
Barry Down
Jane Pearce
Nado Aveling
Anne Price
(Murdoch University)
“Critically’ reinvigorating teacher education: Issues and dilemmas”
[Room SG04] |
Tony Webb
(University of Western Sydney)
“PhotoVoice as a tool for community development”
[Room SG05] |
5.10 –
6.00 pm |
PLENARY PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATIVE SESSION
oases team
“What is emerging?”
An integrative session - open space around the theme of bringing together 'critical pedagogy' and 'participatory learning' from the experiences of the first day of the conference. Focusing on 'social transformation' through using the 'materials' and experiences that have been 'gathered' during the day - the entering, the visuals from the troubadour, the jests, the quiet reflections, the artwork, the dialogue from the participants on the material from the speakers, the workshops and the papers and 'other' stuff.
[Room H4 Lecture Theatre] |
6.30pm –
9.00pm |
“WHOLEFOODS”
Wholefoods was established in 1977 by students at Monash University. Students run the restaurant, cafe, functions and grocery through collective decision making. In a nutshell Wholefoods provide vegetarian and vegan food, using organic and ethically produced ingredients wherever possible to encourage voluntary student participation at all levels of cooperation of the restaurant/space, in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation.
Cost: $25 per head including food and drink. The Conference Dinner is not included in the Registration for the Conference. Please RSVP to Bruce.Missingham@arts.monash.edu.au
“CHALKBOARD CONCERT AT THE CONFERENCE DINNER”
It’s a chance to have fun and to entertain each other. Anyone can offer a piece – it might be a song, a dance, a poem, a skit, a joke, a comedy routine, art piece, playing an instrument - anything. It is a chance to connect in a creative way; to participate – to see other’s often hidden sides and to express yourself - solo or with others.
As part of the chalkboard concert, oases is hoping to present some Playback Theatre. The audience will be asked for moments they would like to see reflected back by the actors. These moments can be funny, poignant or whatever... the actors will attempt to capture the moment for you and play it back.
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| 09.00 am |
Tricia Hiley & Jacques Boulet
(Reconnect with Thursday’s endings, open up Friday’s session)
“Transformative Learning in the oases Graduate Program”
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
| 09.45 am |
Daniel Schugurensky
“Deep Transformation: The role of higher education”
[Plenary Presentation: Menzies H4 Lecture Theatre] |
| 10.30 am |
MORNING TEA Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
| 11.00 am |
SHORT PAPER PRESENTATIONS |
Kim Hershorn
(Concordia University, Montreal)
“An investigation of health, education, identity and social change through creative writing and self-study”
[Room SG02] |
Tracey Ollis
(Victoria University)
“ ‘You’ve got to have that passion’ – emotions, learning and activism”
[Room SG03] |
Hannah Lee Huei Soong
(UNISA)
“Transformative Learning in Community Service Learning: Exploring the capacity of service learning to evoke ‘dispositions of service’ for in international pre-service teacher education students”
[Room SG04] |
Fida Sanjakdar
(Victoria University)
‘New Learning’: Entering conversations in critical pedagogy with pre-service teachers
[Room SG02] |
Mandi Gregory
(Kotare Trust & Massey University)
"Weaving the Strands"
A personal reflection of my learning while working as a qualitative researcher within a traditional tertiary education system (a University) while also being a community worker and Trustee with a radical participatory education school - Kotare Trust.
[Room SG03] |
Heinz-Josef Kreutz
(Monash University)
“Capacity building and local community empowerment: Municipal Waste Management and Waste Education in rural East Timor”
[Room SG04] |
| 12.00 pm |
LUNCH Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
| 1.00 pm |
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS |
Peter Willis
(University of South Australia)
“Evocative portrayal for Transformative Learning”
[Room SG02] |
John Rice
(Adelaide TAFE)
“Exploring the ecosystem of ideas: developing political criticality”
[Room SG03] |
David Zyngier
(Monash University)
“Walking the Walk - Not Talking the Talk: Doing Transformative Pedagogy”
[Room SG04] |
Tony Brown
(UTS)
“Using film in teaching and learning about changing societies”
[Room SG05] |
| 2.30 pm |
AFTERNOON TEA Manton Rooms Foyer, Menzies Bld |
3.00 -
4.30 pm |
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS |
Antero Benedito da Silva (UNTL)Deborah Durnan (UNE)
Bob Boughton (UNE)
“Popular education and post-conflict peace building and development in Timor-Leste”
[Room SG02] |
Jude Cook (UTS)
Patricia Kenny
(TAFE NSW)
"Embedding Participatory and transformative Learning in curricula - from social exclusion to socila inclusion"
[Room SG03] |
Jenni Goricanec
Juliana Kaya Prpic (University of Melbourne)
“Exploring transdisciplinarity through the use of image and metaphor”
[Room SG04] |
Susan Goff
Max Hardy
(Twyfords)
“Pedagogies of participatory democracy: a collaborative inquiry into the transformative realities of participatory democracy”
[Room SG05] |
4.40 -
5.30 pm |
PLENARY PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATIVE SESSION
oases team
“Leavings but not endings - new beginnings”
Again an integrative session open space around the theme of bringing together 'critical pedagogy', 'participatory learning' from the experiences of the days of the conference focused on 'social transformation', using the 'materials' that have been 'gathered' during both days - the entering, the visuals from the troubadour, the jests, the quiet reflections, the artwork, the dialogue from the participants on the material from the speakers, the workshops and the papers and 'other' stuff, the playback and chalkboard theatre from the dinner.
And where to from here?
Developing thoughts and plans for 'what to do' with this thinking/feeling/images. How do we develop our thoughts from the conference into words that can be shared and published? How do we continue to engage with alternative learning practices and create “holding spaces” in which to challenge and find support for and reflect on our practices?
[Room H4 Lecture Theatre] |
9am -
12pm |
Invitation to oases
‘Saturday Breakfasts: Conversations for Critical Times’
(first Saturday of every month)
Daniel Schugurensky
Daniel is program coordinator of the Centre for Transformative Learning in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. OISE has been known for a long time for its work in social justice, international solidarity and so on. OISE undertook work with Paulo Freire after his being exiled from Brazil and Chile in the early seventies and have made themselves a big name in participatory development, action research and community development and the role of education. |
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
The Augustine Centre
2 Minona Street, Hawthorn
9819 3502
or http://www.oases.org.au
$20 waged/ $12 concession
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12.30pm -
4.30pm |
Invitation to oases
‘Open Day’
Open day for information about courses offered (after the breakfast seminar) |
The Quiet Space – S119 (upstairs from the Menzies Coffee Shop)
A place for quiet reflection, relaxation will be available through out the conference. There are, of course, many spaces/places in the Monash surroundings that might serve these intentions and which are open for participants to use.
Jester/jesting
Whilst we don’t have a formal conference jester, there is something about the jester role that could enhance any conference, someone not imbued with the written or unwritten “rules” who can see through and talk of “the emperors new clothes”, but in a jesting/humorous way that can be heard. A jester or two might emerge at the conference if the situation calls out for them.
Eleni Rivers as a Visual Troubadour
To paint a painting can be fun, challenging, meditative, absorbing. To involve oneself in making art engages the senses in different ways. It is often said that a picture tells a 1000 words. Truths and revelations can emerge in the creative arts that everyday communication has somehow failed to express.
A Visual Troubadour is one who invites (entices) members of the audience to participate in a different form of expression with each other. In much the same way a jester's antics invite a sense of play and mirth, in this case, a Visual Troubadour is one who uses the medium of paint and brush to communicate ideas non-verbally. Instead of painting taking place in some remote location, in this situation, painting will take place out in the open as an integral part of the conference. There will also be the opportunity for participants to involve themselves in making art. All materials will be provided; absolutely no skill required!
Eleni Rivers - artist, teacher and community arts worker. In addition to holding several art degrees from colleges in Australia she recently completed her MFA at JFK University in Berkeley, California. Her paintings, drawings and illustrations have been exhibited and published in many countries and are held in private collections both here and the US. Now based in Melbourne, Eleni is part of the oases Graduate School in Hawthorn where she teaches classes in Mythology and Art. Her recent exhibition of paintings Shadows & Light, explores the relationship between the interior world of Greek myth in relation to the contemporary Australian landscape.
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