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ACTU Event held at MUA National Office on 15 February 2019. Hahrie Han is the Anton Vonk Professor of Political Science and Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the study of civic and political participation, collective action, organizing, and social change, particularly as it pertains to social policy, environmental…

One of the best computer games that I’ve played resently was Subnautica. It’s reasonably well known (at least, well enough to get dragged into some of the miserable gamergate arguments, even if only peripherally and after the fact) and, as far as I know, it’s been pretty well received by gamers and critics alike. In…

That’s a pretty ambiguous title, and I think this blog post is going to be pretty ambiguous too, but what I am trying to do is draw together some ideas that I have been thinking about over the last couple of months. Some of these ideas I have blogged about before while others have arisen…

I’m continuing to read (and enjoy) the Australian Flip the System book. The fourth chapter is by Cameron Malcher, who I’ve followed on Twitter for a while. Cameron, along with Corinne Campbell, has been the host of the Teachers’ Education Review (TER) Podcast for a number of years. I must confess that I have only…

This is the fifth part in an ongoing series about Flipping the System Australia. I’ve just finished reading Benajamin Doxtdator about Risk vs Vulnerability. It was a very thought-provoking chapter, and I’ve jotted down some reflections below. Doxtdator begins by discussing Gert Biesta’s call for education to not be risk-free. Biesta’s argument stems from what I might broadly…

This is a different kind of blog post – it is a collection of tweets about an article I read, so it will probably be a bit disjointed. Just finished reading “Australian schools as deliberative spaces: framing the goal of active and informed citizenship” by Sarah Sorial and @apetersoned in The Curriculum Journal. Great stuff….

I’m on a roll – I’ve just finished reading the third chapter in Flipping the System. This chapter, entitled Flipping the System but in which direction? is by Gert Biesta, an education academic that I’ve long admired for his work in the fields of philosophy, pedagogy and democracy. I cited Gert quite a bit in my own thesis. Biesta’s chapter begins by agreeing…

I finally got around to reading the second chapter of Flip the System: Australia and I am glad I did. This chapter, which looks at commercialisation in Australian public schools, was written by Anna Hogan and Bob Lingard, both well known and highly respected academics. It draws on their research, conducted by a survey, into how teachers…

I saw an article criticizing the Fallout series the other day that caught my eye. Not because of the criticism, per se –  the later versions of Fallout have their fair share of detractors – mostly to do with the range of bugs and myriad other broken parts of the game – but rather the…

I recently attended a funeral; it was a heartbreakingly sad event, even though it all went off as well as those things can. It was well attended, the priest spoke with deep knowledge of the deceased, and the family put together a beautiful tribute. Still, sad. But it got me thinking about grief, and the…