[Herdsa]: News on Wed 14th Nov 2007

[Roger Landbeck]

Dear List Members

This week we have

* List of Academic Language & Learning (ALL) centres/units at Australian universities.
* Writing Research Across Borders An Interdisciplinary Conference
* Teaching in Higher Education: A special issue
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Following last week's list of Teaching and Learning Centres Alex Barthel has drawn our attention to the list of Academic Language & Learning (ALL) centres/units at Australian universities which is available from 

http://www.aall.org.au/centres/

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Writing Research Across Borders
An Interdisciplinary Conference

February 22-24, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara

The Writing Research Across Borders Conference will bring together 550 research presenters that represent over 30 nations.  Its 150 panels will represent research on writing at all levels of development, employing approaches from the social sciences, sciences and humanities.  The conference will provide opportunities to share findings, seek common agendas, and lay the groundwork for future communication and alliances.

For more information, please visit our conference website at http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/wrconf08/ or email us at writing at education.ucsb.edu.

Early registration fees:
$195 Regular Registration
$120 Student/Adjunct/CA Educator

Fees After December 1:
$250 Regular Registration
$160 Student/Adjunct/CA Educator

*Conference Volume Included with Registration
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Teaching in Higher Education:
Diversity and Commonality in Higher Education

VOLUME 12      NUMBER 5 & 6   (October 2007) – Special Issue

Editor: Professor Sue Clegg, Carnegie Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Routledge is pleased to announce that Issues 5 and 6 of Teaching in Higher Education will be a combined Special Issue.

What is diversity in higher education? Should it be celebrated or problematised? Are there limitations in current understandings? Has the language of diversity come to preclude the embracing of different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing?

The Special Issue of Teaching in Higher Education 2007 invited contributions which critically address issues of diversity and commonality in higher education, including essays, studies of practice and reflexive accounts which:
 - attempt to reveal hidden assumptions behind commonly accepted views in order to show why they should be rejected
 - engage with, explore, and destabilise discourses, values, and practices
 - question taken-for-granted concepts and methods
 - suggest new forms of enquiry and syntheses
 - imagine better futures

CONTENTS

Diversifying curriculum as the practice of repressive tolerance Professor Stephen Brookfield

Unfulfilled promises: how inventories, instruments and institutions subvert discourses and promote commonality Professor Leonora Ritter

Transforming diversity in Canadian higher education: a dialogue of Japanese women graduate students Kimine Mayuzumi, Kyoko Motobayashi, Chikako Nagayama, and Miwa Takeuchi

The de-representation of science and queer science students in higher education within the queer/gay discourse Dr Robert Toynton

Sister-matic: gender mainstreaming in higher education Professor Louise Morley

Supporting cultural and religious diversity in higher education: pedagogy and beyond Dr Emma Tomalin

Diversity, equality and higher education: a critical reflection on the ab/uses of equity discourse within widening participation Dr Louise Archer

Improving student outcomes in higher education: New Zealand teachers’ views on teaching students from diverse backgrounds Nick Zepke and Linda Leach

Indigeneous, pre-undergraduate and international students at Central Queensland University, Australia: Three cases of the dynamic tension between diversity and commonality Don Bowser, P. A. Danaher and Jay Somasundaram

An overview of research on student support: helping students to achieve or achieving institutional targets? Nurture or De-nature?
Dr Rob Smith

New imaginations of difference: on teaching, writing and culturing Dr. Devika Chawla and Dr. Amardo Rodriguez

Diversity, identity and belonging in e-communities: some theories and paradoxes Dr Gwyneth Hughes

Academic engagement within a widening participation context – a 3D analysis Christine Hockings, Sandra Cooke and Marion Bowl

‘Democracy to come’ – a personal narrative of pedagogical practices and ‘othering’ within a context of higher education and research training Dr Mirka Koro-Ljungberg

Promoting intercultural learning in a multicultural university: ideals and realities Kate Ippolito

Diversity and pedagogic practice: reflections on the role of an adult educator in higher education Dr Cheryl Hunt

Points for Debate

For and against diversity in higher education Professor Graham Badley

Diversity and the Academy
Jan Parker

Conference Report

Policy Statement

 The Special Issue is for sale as a single volume at a price of £15/US$30/€22.  To purchase a copy, please visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/cthe-si.asp
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Roger Landbeck
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