Program Schedule

Wednesday 12 July 2006

Confererence Day 3

Room Allocation Legend
Club			Arts
	Theatre/Auditorium	Club AUD		Room G.60	AR G.60
	Seminar Room 1	Club SR 1		Room G.61	AR G.61
	Seminar Room 2	Club SR 2		Room G.62	AR G.62
	Seminar Room 3	Club SR 3		Room 1.60	AR 1.60
	Case Study Room	Club CSR		Room 1.61	AR 1.61
	Private Dining Room	Club PDR		Room 1.62	AR 1.62

Critical Thinking in Higher Education

Start

End

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session 6

Session 7

Session 8

8:30

8:55

Registration & Coffee

9:00

9:10

Housekeeping

9:10

9:15

Curtin Keynote address – introduction to Curtin
Professor Jeanette Hacket, Vice Chancellor, Curtin University

9:15

10:30

Keynote Address - Professor Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London
Willing to learn: being a student in an age of uncertainty
Auditorium, University Club
Sponsored by: Curtin University of Technology

10:30

10:55

AM Break

Club SR 1

Club SR 2

Club SR 3

AR G.60

AR G.61

AR G.62

AR 1.60

AR 1.61

11:00

11:55

1.1
Spotlights

Quality Assurance

1.2
Spotlights

Critical Thinking

1.3
Spotlights

Higher Education context

1.4
Spotlights

Challenges in Higher Education

1.5
Snapshots

Academic Development

1.6
Snapshots

Higher Education Future Perspectives

1.7
Snapshots

Reflective Practice

1.8
Snapshots

Action Research / Higher Education Context

211	view abstract

Spotlight
A new day of judgement? Accrediting assessors in South African higher education

Terry Volbrecht

222	view abstract

Spotlight
Critical reflections on an academic literacies policy five years on

Alison Kirkness

224	view abstract

Spotlight
Retaining mature-age students at university: A student services perspective

Charlynn Miller

129	view abstract

Spotlight
'See, these big potatoes they all think this way': International students' experiences in constructing knowledge in higher education

Tran Ly

280	view abstract

Spotlight
From strategy to implementation in a ‘global university’

Yoni Ryan

066	view abstract

Spotlight
Leadership practice change: Critical perspectives from the Chinese educational leaders in an Australian offshore program

Ting Wang

151	view abstract

Spotlight
Australian higher education reform: A reflexive modernization perspective

David Pick

166	view abstract

Spotlight
Aspects of academic work that discriminate between white, black and expatriate South African academics

Damian Ruth,
Raja Peter

194	view abstract

Spotlight
The corporatisation of higher education: A question of balance

Don Sanderson,
James Watters

201	view abstract

Spotlight
Beyond craft practice: Searching for an evidence-base on effective pedagogy in higher education

Peter Taylor,
Rachel Grace

226	view abstract

Spotlight
‘The lost, the least and the last: A South African higher education case study exploring the possibility of defying the barriers to learning

June Pym

076	view abstract

Snapshot
What is the purpose and place of the academic developer? The significance of establishing an evolving theoretical framework

Lesley Petersen

088	view abstract

Snapshot
Research leaders in multi institutional research collaboration

Susan Shaw

308	view abstract

Snapshot
Learning advisors and academic developers: Two sides of the same coin?

Janet Taylor

344	view abstract

Snapshot
Induction for sessionals: What's reasonable?

Kay Martinez,
Audrey Milton

140	view abstract

Snapshot
International perspectives on accountability practices in teaching-learning and research in Chinese and Hong Kong universities: Implications for Australian higher education

Lesley Vidovich,
Jan Currie,
Rui Yang

204	view abstract

Snapshot
The complicit community of scholars: Public intervention in university teaching in Australia and England

Peter Ling

351	view abstract

Snapshot
"The best I can be": A gift from Olympic sport to higher education

Corinne Reid

361	view abstract

Snapshot
English language teaching reforms in higher education

Mian Azam

203	view abstract

Snapshot
Embedding criticality in tertiary programs

Les Pereira

249	view abstract

Snapshot
Enhancing clinical teaching experiences using Action Research

Gina Arena,
Fiona Lake

264	view abstract

Snapshot
Tweaking classroom culture for better learning

Anatoli Vakhguelt,
Wang Su Chen,
Enn Ong

275	view abstract

Snapshot
Who’s peering? Peer observations of teaching

Alison Bunker,
Heather Sparrow

322	view abstract

Snapshot
Poacher turned gamekeeper: The short journey from teaching portfolio writer to teacher portfolio assessor

Ian Brailsford

Club AUD

AR G.60

Club SR 1

Club SR 2

12:00

12:55

Critical Insights – 5

Internal Entrepreneurs in the university system

Ms Tracey Hodgkins, Curtin Advantage

385	view abstract

Critical Insights – 6

Encouraging questions: a functional-narrative model to stimulate students’ critical thinking for any discipline.

John Hilsdon, University of Plymouth, UK

369	view abstract

Critical Insights – 7

The Yolngu Studies program at Charles Darwin University: 'Two way learning' in teaching and research.

2005 Australian University Teacher of the Year - Associate Professor Michael Christie, Charles Darwin University

383	view abstract

Critical Insights – 8

HERDSA Fellows meeting

386	view abstract

13:00

14:10

Lunch [Posters 12:45-1:10]/HERDSA AGM

14:15

15:00

HERDSA Panel on Colloquia
Auditorium, University Club

15:00

16:10

Keynote - Presidential Address: Professor Shelda Debowski - President, HERDSA
Mind the gap: Universities as employers of choice
Auditorium, University Club

16:10

16:40

Networking Break

16:45

17:05

Closing Session: Review of Conference
Auditorium, University Club

17:05

17:15

2007 Conference Preview
Auditorium, University Club

17:30

Bus departs for city hotels

18:30

Bus collects from city hotels for return to University Club

19:00

22:00

Conference Dinner & Awards Presentation
Banquet Hall, University Club
University of Sydney Creative Presentation Award
Edith Cowan University Authentic Learning Prize
Taylor & Francis Early Career Researcher

23:10

Bus departs for city hotels