Robyn Penman (PhD, UMelb) has been an independent communication scholar and consultant to government on communication and social policy matters. She was also a Founding Director of the Communication Research Institute of Australia (1987-2000) and an Adjunct Professor in Communication at the University of Canberra (1999-2005). Robyn is a past President (1985-6) and Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, has served on the International Communication Association board (2002-3) and is a Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, Oxford (1987-). She was also the associate editor of the Australian Journal of Communication (1984-2003) and has served on the editorial boards of Communication Theory and Human Communication Research. She is currently a board member of the CMM Institute and a co-director of the Cosmopolis2045 project. Robyn has devoted her scholarly career to the development of a practical-theoretic approach to understanding communication as a relational practice. She has been equally as focused on asking questions about what makes for good communicating and what this can mean in the public sphere. She is the author of four books—Communication Process and Relationships, Not the Marrying Kind (with Yvonne Stolk), Reconstructing Communicating: Looking to a Future, and Making Better Social Worlds (with Arthur Jensen)—along with many book chapters and journal articles. Address: Australia
Orthodox scientific thinking in the 20th century has demarcated theory from practice in such a wa... more Orthodox scientific thinking in the 20th century has demarcated theory from practice in such a way that theory has taken a privileged position. Research is undertaken not to directly inform or help practice, but to support or refute theory. As such, the conventional methods used ...
This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of ... more This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, to consolidate what is already known about Indigenous children, and to highlight what information is missing. It considers the data available for understanding the care giving environment of Indigenous children, and child-specific topics such as early childhood, the school years and pathways outside of school
This paper is concerned with the decline in marriage rates over the past 30 years, arguments abou... more This paper is concerned with the decline in marriage rates over the past 30 years, arguments about the undermining of the institution of marriage and, in particular, with the relevance to Australia of the approach of Linda Waite, a family sociologist, and Maggie Gallagher, a journalist, in their book, The Case for Marriage. They wrote their book in response to what they saw as an attack on the institution of marriage, and compiled evidence to show that marriage conferred a number of benefits to the spouses. This article addresses the questions of whether married Australians are better off than their non married counterparts and if there are any differences between married and non married people, are they attributable directly to the institution of marriage.
... Prix indicatif 56,14 Ajouter au panier le livre de PENMAN Robyn. Date de parution : 07-2000... more ... Prix indicatif 56,14 Ajouter au panier le livre de PENMAN Robyn. Date de parution : 07-2000 Langue : ANGLAIS 184p. ... 060036: ?ú60.00l/P>lP> lSTRONG>Volume VIII:l/STRONG> Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Centuryl/P>lP> Ed: Richard Kearney, lEM>University ...
In the first part of this paper I look back over the field of communication studies in Australia,... more In the first part of this paper I look back over the field of communication studies in Australia, drawing on material from the Australian Journal of Communication (AJC) and personal experience over the past thirty years to do so. While the field has clearly grown, there is much that is wanting; most notably a tradition that treats communication per se seriously. In the second half of the paper, I look forward to consider what it could mean to treat communication seriously, relying on notions of intersubjectivity, agency, and praxis, and offer reasons why we might want to do so.
This essay challenges social scientists who focus on values, to make a practical contribution to ... more This essay challenges social scientists who focus on values, to make a practical contribution to rangeland matters. The essay is organised around three questions: Why study values? Can values be neutrally studied? and How can social scientists contribute to the possibilities of better rangeland practices? We suggest that the available language resources used and the environmental realities constructed within our research practices are limiting and not conducive to real, practical solutions. And, in conducting this foray, we wish to demonstrate how addressing these limitations with our audiences can potentially contribute to practical progress on rangeland matters.
Orthodox scientific thinking in the 20th century has demarcated theory from practice in such a wa... more Orthodox scientific thinking in the 20th century has demarcated theory from practice in such a way that theory has taken a privileged position. Research is undertaken not to directly inform or help practice, but to support or refute theory. As such, the conventional methods used ...
This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of ... more This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, to consolidate what is already known about Indigenous children, and to highlight what information is missing. It considers the data available for understanding the care giving environment of Indigenous children, and child-specific topics such as early childhood, the school years and pathways outside of school
This paper is concerned with the decline in marriage rates over the past 30 years, arguments abou... more This paper is concerned with the decline in marriage rates over the past 30 years, arguments about the undermining of the institution of marriage and, in particular, with the relevance to Australia of the approach of Linda Waite, a family sociologist, and Maggie Gallagher, a journalist, in their book, The Case for Marriage. They wrote their book in response to what they saw as an attack on the institution of marriage, and compiled evidence to show that marriage conferred a number of benefits to the spouses. This article addresses the questions of whether married Australians are better off than their non married counterparts and if there are any differences between married and non married people, are they attributable directly to the institution of marriage.
... Prix indicatif 56,14 Ajouter au panier le livre de PENMAN Robyn. Date de parution : 07-2000... more ... Prix indicatif 56,14 Ajouter au panier le livre de PENMAN Robyn. Date de parution : 07-2000 Langue : ANGLAIS 184p. ... 060036: ?ú60.00l/P>lP> lSTRONG>Volume VIII:l/STRONG> Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Centuryl/P>lP> Ed: Richard Kearney, lEM>University ...
In the first part of this paper I look back over the field of communication studies in Australia,... more In the first part of this paper I look back over the field of communication studies in Australia, drawing on material from the Australian Journal of Communication (AJC) and personal experience over the past thirty years to do so. While the field has clearly grown, there is much that is wanting; most notably a tradition that treats communication per se seriously. In the second half of the paper, I look forward to consider what it could mean to treat communication seriously, relying on notions of intersubjectivity, agency, and praxis, and offer reasons why we might want to do so.
This essay challenges social scientists who focus on values, to make a practical contribution to ... more This essay challenges social scientists who focus on values, to make a practical contribution to rangeland matters. The essay is organised around three questions: Why study values? Can values be neutrally studied? and How can social scientists contribute to the possibilities of better rangeland practices? We suggest that the available language resources used and the environmental realities constructed within our research practices are limiting and not conducive to real, practical solutions. And, in conducting this foray, we wish to demonstrate how addressing these limitations with our audiences can potentially contribute to practical progress on rangeland matters.
Penman, R. (2016). Kamusal Diyalog. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 8 (K. Çetinkaya, Tran... more Penman, R. (2016). Kamusal Diyalog. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 8 (K. Çetinkaya, Trans.). Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/publications/
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