Karen Charman

Along with the massification of higher education comes a need for new models to support the success of greater numbers of diverse students. A greater proportion of these students are ‘non-traditional’ in terms of preparedness, socioeconomic status and geography. This paper introduces an Associate Degree model designed to support this new higher education reality of broader student cohorts, thin regional markets and cross-sectoral collaboration. Background literature on challenges facing the higher education sector and its prospective students is presented, with a particular focus on regionality. An argument is made for the role of curriculum and pedagogy as enablers of non-traditional student success. This is supported by the results of a mixed-methods exploratory study. This Associate Degree model was attractive to students and institutes. Students experienced similar levels of challenge, workload and progress to their traditional peers. While technology was essential for the succe...

This conference is interested in how thinking is disrupted and re-imagined through the act of walking. What are the possibilities that open up when we are in the realm of streets, parks, river banks or transport hubs? As we walk through our suburbs or our towns do these spaces impact on our thinking in generative ways? Do they entail pedagogical moments and how might these be defined? Together with walking this conference is also about talking. This is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. What do languages enable? For the Public Pedagogies Institute, we ask what are the affordances and constraints of Indigenous languages in public places. How does the use of these languages effect an understanding of place and the public? We welcome and invite a range of submissions-informal presentations, academic papers, workshops, screenings-and encourage a diversity of sectors to participate in two days of ideas-sharing and networking on our theme.

Join us for a one day event: 'Footscray Pop Up School' Maddern Square Footscray Saturday November 19th 12pm-4pm. This day will be made up of exhibitions of learning and teaching from Footscray's diverse population. Exhibited will be our communities learning from the past, present and the future. The day will feature recording of memories of learning, reenactments of schooling, opportunities to teach and to learn from community members, a digital map of Footscray's schooling history and the opportunity to bring a book to symbolise knowledge you would like to have be remembered for the future. For further information please visit the Public Pedagogies website http://www.publicpedagogies.org/

This article examines performativity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) historical archives to argue such performance is an act of resistance to the ahistorical neoliberal commodi cation of queer. LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive and A Wandering Archive is a project initiated by artist and academic E.G. Crichton. In A Wandering Archive, I collaborated with E.G. Crichton to enact lineage intertwining our subjectivities in a public reading of an unpublished manuscript Ruth Reid and Kent Hyde, a Memoir. What does an archive o er as resistance? How can an archive be performed? Performativity such as this project is a model for archival retrieval. This article interrogates an enactment of GLBT history as performance. This article will address the discursive determinants of neoliberalism’s demand for an ahistorical positioning of queer sexualities, subsuming sexualities as plurality and thus rendering them benign. LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive and A Wandering Archive exemplifes the intersection of sexualities and creativity as culturally productive sites.

In this article I examine the possibilities of reparation in an era of privatisation and de-industrialisation. I examine the effect of a recent project Sunshine Memory Space, a space, designed to evoke memories of a de-industrialised urban Melbourne suburb Sunshine. This project offered the opportunity for the effects of industrial change to be publically represented, remembered and valued. I offer an analysis of the significance of relational localised curatorial work.

To find out more visit: www.publicpedagogies.org Join us for two days of ideas sharing, performances, workshops, and engaged discussion around the diverse areas of learning and teaching that take place in the community or outside formal institutions. Keynote speakers for this year's conference include: Margaret Wertheim (Crochet Coral Reef Project) and Liss Gabb (Cohealth Arts Generator).

We understand public pedagogies to be the many sites in which teaching and learning takes place outside formal institutions. These include public institutions like museums, libraries, neighbourhood houses and community centres as well as in the arts, through community engagement and public history. This conference seeks to engage people who participate with learning and teaching in practice, research and the evaluation of public pedagogies and invites discussion on the challenges, achievements and best practice in this field. Following on from our successful 2015 conference this year we are expanding to include a day dedicated to understanding public pedagogies through practical workshops focused on arts based learning and professional development. Abstracts and descriptions of workshops of no more than 300 words will be accepted up until Friday the 26th of August. Paper and workshop presentations should be accompanied by a 100 word biographical note.