RIPPLE - Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education
Upcoming Events
The Embodied Profession(al): The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education, A RIPPLE Conference, 2nd - 4th December 2010, Melbourne.
Does the body matter? What can be said about the role and significance of the body in researching and understanding professional practice, learning and education? What value would there be in better realising and articulating the notion of the professional practitioner as embodied, and relatedly, of the profession itself as a corporate body?
The concept builds therefore on the notion, following Bent Flyvberg and others, that there is something significant in professional practice and professional knowledge that is crucially and fundamentally a matter of embodiment, of ‘arationality’, comportment and tacit or even unconscious expertise: the body as subject, in a sense, - and with this regard to the professional’s body, in whatever field, and to the corporate body of the profession.
This will be a conference for all professional practice fields, and most certainly for those of health and Education. It will bring together scholars and practitioners (and scholar-practitioners) from CSU and beyond, with a view to sharing their deliberations and dilemmas concerning professional practice, learning and education in and for a complex global world.
Keynote speakers will include Professors Margaret Somerville (Monash), Anne Kinsella (Western Ontario) and John Shotter (New Hampshire).
Watch this space (and the RIPPLE website) for further information. This conference is being held immediately after AARE 2010.
Click here for selected annotated biobliography pertaining to the conference on "The Embodied Profession(al).
Seminar for the new Early Years Learning Framework Researcher Network
Jennifer Sumsion and Linda Harrison have received funding from the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY), and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), to bring together people from across Australia (including academics, practitioners, bureaucrats, and peak early childhood organisations) who are interested in exploring ways to evaluate the Early Years Learning Framework. A two‐day seminar will be held in Bathurst on 2 and 3 November.