Diary dates

Date: Wednesday 27 November
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm
Venue: Faculty of Business and Economics building, 198 Berkley Street, Level 1 Theatre
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This lecture considers how best physical education/physical education teacher education (PE/PETE) stakeholders can be held accountable for determining an international framework for strategic planning, proactive leadership, and adaptive designs. Given that equitable accountability means that all PE/PETE stakeholders be legitimized as contributors, critical contributions of partnerships and professional cultures is a main thread to this lecture. Three related considerations are shared and include (i) roles, responsibilities and weakening boundaries of, and between, stakeholders, (ii) support structures and networking as effective practice, and (iii) true partnership and communication across PE/PETE. The lecture concludes by considering the centrality of establishing an evidence base through international collaboration and transnational and comparative research in a bid to meet physical activity, sport, and health-related needs of children and youth world-wide.

Date: Thursday 28 November
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Kathleen FItzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, Professor's Walk
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When a language is at the juncture of extinction, using it as the language of formal education would appear to be a mission impossible. Thirty-six years after a handful of people in Hawaiʻi decided to face this dire situation head on and use Hawaiian as the medium of pre-school education – with no money, no site, no curriculum and no 'qualified' teachers – Hawaiʻi is now experiencing a reawakening of new generations of highly fluent second and first language Hawaiian speakers.

In the 2019 Narrm Oration, Dr Larry L Kimura will impart a progression of the 36 years (1983–2019) of overcoming obstacles to advance the life of the Hawaiian language and cultural wellbeing.

The Narrm Oration will be followed by a panel discussion addressing the Australian experience of language revitalisation and the achievements and challenges. RSVP by Wednesday 20 November.

Date: Tuesday 3 December
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Venue: Wilson Hall, Wilson Avenue Building 151 Parkville
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The inaugural UoM Staff Orchestra (UoMSO) comprises over 50 staff members from across 13 different academic faculties and university service departments.

UoMSO will perform favourites by Bizet, Bryant and Verdi alongside the world premiere of our Melbourne Conservatorium of Music composer commission by Kate Tempany (MMus). This project has been devised and managed by BMus students receiving scholarship through SSAF Grants under the supervision of IgniteLAB.

Date: 9-11 December
Venue:Arts West Building, the University of Melbourne
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Join Social Education Victoria for a gathering that will bring together researchers, school students, teachers and school leaders, policy workers, and support organisations to consider current and future directions in Student Voice, Agency and Partnerships.