Australia’s political and economic system is built on exploitation. From the violent foundational occupation of Indigenous lands, to the ongoing denial of Indigenous sovereignty over those lands; from the destructive extraction of natural resources, to the profound devaluation of the care work [...]
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This blog post discusses an article that was part of the Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by myself and Mel Jordan. In doing so, I finally managed to write about my [...]
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The Period Poverty initiative was subsequently featured in national media, and became the basis of a recently-published journal article in a Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere where we draw on our shared lecturer/student experiences to collectively reflect on the initiative and consider [...]
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This forum revisits a Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by Ian Bruff & Mel Jordan. The Special Issue sought to disrupt more conventional understandings of art, politics and [...]
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In late 2018, about the same time Raewyn Connell and her publishers in London and Melbourne (Zed Books and Monash University Publishing) were putting the finishing touches to her The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s time for Radical Change, a small group of [...]
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Last week, it was my pleasure to engage with an initiative that the Institute of Teaching and Learning at the University of Sydney organises in the form of their #edtech talks. These are seminars focusing on learning and teaching through technology. My talk was on ‘Blogging as Pedagogy’ that [...]
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