Diary dates

Date: Open Monday - Friday
Closes: October 2020
Location: Arts West Gallery
Time: 10am - 4pm

The Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage objects from a globally significant anthropological collection are on display in the Arts West Gallery, Parkville. The Awaken exhibition includes items from the Donald Thomson Collection - gathered from the diverse communities of Arnhem Land, Cape York, and the Western and Central Deserts during the Melbourne University anthropologist's 50-year career. A Faculty of Arts and Chancellery initiative, 'Awaken' has been developed in consultation with communities, using local knowledge alongside Donald Thomson's fieldwork notes to activate the object stories and their deep connection with each community.

Awaken has been curated by Genevieve Grieves, Worimi Nation film-maker, storyteller and Melbourne Museum Director of First Peoples, assisted by Rosemary Wrench (MV) and alumna Shonae Hobson (Kaantju). It features innovative digital labels, including 3D images and virtual reality. The exhibition is open Monday - Friday, 10.00am to 4.00pm and will close in October 2020. For more information visit the Arts West Gallery page.

Date: Wednesday 28 August
Time: 12pm - 1.30pm
Venue: 100 Leicester Street, Level 4, Rooms L413-L414
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Please join the first of the REEaCh Hub’s series of lunchtime seminars. In this session we will introduce REEaCh and share some of our key pieces of research and activities. The first hour includes presentations with the last half hour for more informal discussions. Please bring your lunch.

Date: Wednesday 28 August
Time: 2pm - 3pm
Venue: 100 Leicester Street, Level 2, Rooms L219/221
Presenter: Associate Professor Peggy Kern

Social media can be a treasure trove for social scientists, offering rich behavioural, psychological, and social information, and creating numerous opportunities for studying and intervening with users efficiently and at large scale. Drawing on a range of studies in which we analyzed linguistic information available through Facebook and Twitter, I will illustrate some of the possibilities that social media offers to social science research. Yet social media is also a fast-moving space, good intentions can lead to unintentional harms, and regulating this research is novel for many ethics groups. I will highlight some of the pitfalls to watch out for, opening a conversation around best practice approaches for the oversight and ethical use of social media data in social science research.

Date: Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 September
Location: Hilton Cairns
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Education sets the foundations for a strong future; however, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children remain disadvantaged to their non-Indigenous peers.

Education positively impacts the lives of not only individuals but their families and communities too. It is crucial that Governments and communities work together to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people and encourage educational engagement and attendance.

The 3rd National Indigenous Education Forum will provide delegates with the tools on how to increase students’ academic performance through positive relationship building and the implementation of cultural curriculums.

Date: Thursday 5 September
Venue: 234 Queensberry Street, Level 1, Kwong Lee Dow Building
Cost: $200 (incl GST)

Coaching in Professional context - Introduction to practice
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm
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Advanced Coaching Practice - A masterclass for experienced coaches
Time: 4pm - 7pm
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Emily Rochette

Supervisors: Dr Christine Redman and Dr Paul Chandler (ACU)
Chair: Associate Professor Wee Tiong Seah

Date: Thursday 12 September
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: 100 Leicester Street, Level 9 Room L915

In 2015, the Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2014) was incorporated into the Victorian Curriculum (VCAA, 2015) and teachers are expected to integrate digital technologies into all learning areas. Teachers’ use of digital technologies depends on a number of factors including their personal and pedagogical beliefs (Ertmer, 2005; Ertmer & Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2010; Ertmer et al., 2012; Ertmer et al., 2014; Ertmer et al., 2006; Ottenbreit-Leftwich et al., 2010; Somekh, 2008; Tondeur et al., 2008; Tondeur et al., 2016). Adding to this complexity is that general science teachers are unlikely to be specialists in all sub-disciplines of science (Hobbs, 2015; Hobbs & Törner, 2019; Ingersoll, 1998; Price et al., 2019). Geoscience, the study of Earth’s physical structures and processes acting on them (King, 2008), is a modern, technical science. Internationally, it is largely taught by nonspecialists (King, 2008, 2013, 2015).

This research sought to understand the lived-experience of 10 science teachers from an inner-city school in Melbourne as they prepared to teach the Victorian Curriculum. The seminal research question was:
To what extent do secondary science teachers’ perceptions of their agency change as they are supported to teach an out-of-field area of the curriculum with digital technologies?

PhD Confirmation Seminar
Reading Images: Creating a visual experience for complex emotion words and descriptive adjectives through illustration - a study of Persian Miniatures

Neda Sajadi

Supervisors: Professor Lorraine Graham, Dr  Kathryn Coleman, Dr Edith Nicolas
Chair: Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret

Date: Friday 13 September
Time: 2pm
Venue: 234 Queensberry Street, Kwong Lee Dow Building, Level 5, studioFive, Room 509

Learning complex emotion words and descriptive adjectives is a challenging process as abstract concepts often lack concrete referents and their meanings are embodied in a web of associations with no clear border. A considerable number of studies highlight the value of multimodal approaches, especially arts, and suggest using visual tools and images in vocabulary development. Supported by these, a few studies focus on creating visual representations for abstract concepts; however, they mainly involve simple adjectives or basic feelings.

This arts-based research aims to enhance learners’ experience of complex emotion words and descriptive adjectives by creating visual representations of them. It attempts to discuss text/meaning and image relations in different illustrations, with a focus on Persian miniatures, to explore varied attempts towards reading images and meaning making.

The diversity of reading and sense making approaches, and the effectivity of communicated meanings through images will be evaluated and reflected on through participatory action research and by applying a/r/tography as method.

Date: Sunday 15 September
Time: 3pm
Venue: Ormond College, Great Ormand Hall, Parkville
Tickets: $30 (student/concessions $20 using coupon code CONCESSION)
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Australia's first female prime minister and Chair of Beyond Blue, Hon. Julia Gillard, will speak at the UoM on how it takes courage to admit when we are struggling, the importance of having the humanity to listen to those in need, and the responsibility we all share in order to overcome the fear and stigma of mental health issues at an individual, community and global level. Hosted by Ormond College, the 10th Renate Kamener Oration covers the theme of 'The Triumph of Humanity in the Great Transitions of Our Lives'. The event is organised by the Kamener family and Australian Jewish Democratic Society, with ticket sales contributing to the Renate Kamener Scholarship for Indigenous students at Ormond College.

Date: Tuesday 17 September
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Venue: 234 Queensberry Street, Kwong Lee Dow Building
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Lesson Study (Fernández & Yoshida, 2005) and the Didactical Suitability Criteria (Font, Breda, & Pino-Fan, 2017) are two major didactical methodologies that teachers have available to analyze their practices. In this presentation I will discuss how to combine both approaches to empower in-service and pre-service mathematics teachers’ professional knowledge in supporting them to further develop their ability to do mathematical didactical analysis. Evidence suggests that both approaches gain in a mutual complementarity improving teachers’ ability to face complexity in teachers’ education.