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Advance notice: SEAA biennial conference 2012
We warmly invite you to join us at our summer in Melbourne biennial SEAA conference, January 18-20, 2012. The conference will include 'Moving around Melbourne' to allow you to experience professional learning in the field, including through our partnership with Museum Victoria (Day 1 focus), and during our sessions at the Melbourne Zoo (Day 2).
Our main conference base is at Queen's college, University of Melbourne, (Days 2 &3) which is close to the city and walking distance to trams, and the famous Carlton cafes.
The conference theme is Social Education at the Crossroads: capturing the challenges we face at local, national and global levels, to develop and implement curriculum and pedagogy that engages and prepares young people as C21st learners in times of change. In Australia, we need to have conversations about the evolving national curriculum, but our agendas are of global concern, so we look forward to participation from early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary educators and researchers all over the world, and invite you all to submit papers and workshops: as this is a participants' conference.
We would like you to join in our debates about:
Future directions in social education, civics and citizenship education, education for sustainability, integrated curriculum, Indigenous education, global education, studies of Asia, new directions in information and communication technologies, and engaging pedagogies for the C21st century.
The conference includes: keynotes and provocation panel sessions, using ZING technology to develop a new 'Statement for Social Education', workshops and papers (refereed or non-refereed) on the key themes, a welcome reception, and conference dinner at the Leopard Lodge, Melbourne ZOO.
| SEAA President: | Libby Tudball |
| Co-conference Convenors: | Geraldine Ditchburn |
| Julie Dyer | |
| Marc Pruyn |
Further program details available on our conference website soon
My Place for teachers
Education Services and the Australian Children’s Television Services have developed this new series which is based on the much loved book by Nadia Wheatley. This is a truly fabulous resource for teachers with much support material including the Learning Federation incorporated. It provides a cross disciplinary perspective.
http://www.myplace.edu.au/default.asp
Pacific Neighbours Resources
AUSAID, Global Education Project, Curriculum Corporation and Asia Education foundation have worked together to produce a resources to assist us better understand our Pacific neighbours. It is aimed at junior and middle secondary school but it is also a good read for us as teachers to improve our knowledge. There is a hard copy book and a CD but material is also available online for downloading. Also from the website indicated there is a professional training package to help you better understand the ways in which the material can be used and addresses by Professor Stuart Firth on Australia's historical ties with the Pacific and Dr Max Qanchie on Human rights issues associated with the Pacific. This is a great website.
http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/course/view.php?id=138
The Pacific resources are also now available from the Global Education website in a number of ways.
Home Page - click on 'People of the Pacific' in the Global Projects online section (dark blue):
Country Profiles:
Publications (scroll down as it is in alphabetical order):
Professional Learning:
AIA/SEAA Unit Writing Competition
Background :
In 2009 SEAA and AIA jointly sponsored a unit writing competition for Australian tertiary students undertaking education courses. The focus of units was Human Rights and in particular the rights of indigenous people in Australia. It was felt that this topic was central to the goals of both organisations while at the same time offering student teachers the opportunity to construct a unit that had practical value in their classrooms.
Prizes were awarded for the best entries in the following categories :
- National Winner – Primary (1)
- National Winner – Secondary (1)
- State Winners – Primary or Secondary (3)
The over standard of entries was very high. It was pleasing to note both the students’ commitment to human rights and their skills in framing their ideas into school based units of work. The two national winning entries will be published on both the SEAA and AIA websites.
It is with much pleasure that we announce the following winners of our competition :
| 1. National winner (Primary) : | Amy Byrne (University of Canberra) |
| 2. National winner (Secondary) : | Genine Hook (Monash University) |
| 3. State winners : | Joanne Cameron (UNE) NSW |
| Danielle Templar (USA) SA | |
| Jan Bashford (Monash) VIC | |
| Krista Seddon (Monash) VIC | |
| Skanda CalfieldFeith (Monash) VIC |
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Amy Byrne, national primary winner being congratulated by Kate Cooper, (Photo:Clive West) |
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Danielle Templar , South Australian winner with Ruth Reynolds, SEAA (Photo:Clive West) |
Prize Winning Units
Amy Byrne - University of Canberra - See Unit here
Genine Hook- Monash University - See Unit here
Danielle Templar - University of South Australia - See Unit here
Joanne Cameron - University of New England, Armidale - See Unit here
