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WAIER Undergraduate Workshop 2022

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Day/Date: Saturday 6th August

Time: 10 am – 12 noon

Venue: Tannock Hall, University of Notre Dame (Fremantle). 

Who should attend? 

  • Undergraduate teacher education students and those recently graduated (within the last year).
  • Students who have conducted research as part of a unit/s in their undergraduate education course and;
  • Students who are interested in learning more about how to conduct and interpret research.

Format of the workshop

Participants will engage in a round table discussion of their research projects conducted as undergraduates. 

  • Each participant will receive a participation certificate for attendance that identifies AITSL standards for their Professional Portfolio. 
  • This workshop provides you with professional learning that is research based and relevant to the Western Australian context. 

Want to hear more educational research? -then stay for the rest of the day at our WAIER Annual Research Forum. The 2022 Forum theme is Research for Disruption: Making a Difference and this part of the day starts at 1 pm. 

  • You can choose from over 40 research presentations on a range of educational issues such as literacy, inclusive practices, gender, sustainability and more across early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education. 

See the details here: Annual Forum – WAIER

The day concludes with a Networking Sundowner- an opportunity to meet and chat over some drinks and fabulous food.

The day concludes with a Networking Sundowner- an opportunity to meet and chat over some drinks and fabulous food.

Costs

Undergraduate Workshop Only   – Free

Undergraduate Workshop and Forum – $25 

Register here

If you would like to ask any questions about the WAIER Undergraduate Workshop please email:

Dr Saul Karnovsky Saul.Karnovsky@curtin.edu.au

We would love to see you there 😊

International Women’s Day – Celebrate Feminist Researchers

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Paul Gardner, Curtin University

In remembering International Women’s Day, WAIER celebrates the role of Feminist researchers. Many pioneer Feminist researchers drew attention to the fact that much so called ‘objective’, empirical research has been conducted by men on men. In the main, male researchers have been white and middle class, coming from the global North. Not only has male-centric research rendered women researchers ‘invisible’, it also distorts reality by excluding women’s perspectives. Such research has been justifiably critiqued as epistemologically flawed. ‘Man-stream’ science assumes ‘a detached knower’ who frames neutral questions and value-free findings and analysis (Wiggington & Lafrance, 2019). Feminist researchers, no matter their discipline, have been united around the construction of inclusive research methodologies and the promotion of women’s perspective of the world. One key theoretical perspective in feminist research is ‘standpoint theory’, which frames knowledge as being situated in one’s social position, which influences how the world is experienced. Feminist researchers have also drawn attention to the fallacy of the ‘detached’ neutral researcher, and have called on all researchers to acknowledge how their own subjective positions impinge on views of ‘reality’.

Further Reading – Britta Wiggington and Michelle Lafrance’s article which formed the basis of this piece can be accessed at:         

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959353519866058

Wigginton, B. & Lafrance, M.N. (2019) Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies. Feminism & Psychology. September 2019. doi:10.1177/0959353519866058

Summer Research Webinar 2022

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Qualitative methodologies

WAIER is very excited to announce a new partnership with the South Australian Institute for Education Research (SAIER) and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to offer a series of FREE methodologies webinars. The webinars will be presented by Emeritus Professor Barry Down, Associate Professor Peter Wright and Dr Christine Cunningham.

Emeritus Professor Barry Down

Critical theorizing and qualitative research in education

Critical inquiry attempts to expose complex, intersecting power relations that both
privilege and oppress. At heart, it is concerned with issues of fairness, equity, and the
struggle for socially just schools. The presentation will draw on several school-based
ethnographies and lessons from the field, providing an overview of critical qualitative
research.

Associate Professor Peter Wright

Dealing with complexity and sense-making in qualitative inquiry

A brief overview of research in complex environments and several processes of
sense-making and pluralistic approaches to research. Drawing on a specific project,
Peter will directly speak to the progressive removal of uncertainty in a climate of
‘outcomes and impact’, and the framing devices that can enable us to plan, enact and
share our research insights.

Dr Christine Cunningham

Transnational research methodologies and qualitative data gathering: How
might we judge the excellence of this type of research?

Arguably, many early career researchers struggle with the epistemological and lexical
quagmire of judging qualitative research. In this presentation Christine hopes to
discuss her research team’s work using transnational research methodologies and
focus in on the qualitative data gathering methods we have used successfully to
access Chinese participants inside the People’s Republic and Bolivian participants in
a remote region of South America. Then I offer some suggestions on how we might
judge the quality of this type of cross-cultural, multilingual research from both a
critical and qualitative perspective.

When

Wednesday 23 March 2022

  • Western Australia 4:30pm – 6:00pm
  • South Australia 7:00pm – 8:30pm
  • New South Wales 7:30 – 9:00pm

Where

Online webinar via MS Teams platform

Please register your attendance at https://forms.office.com/r/0j4V2McKd9

For questions, contact admin.perth@acer.org

Webinar link will be emailed to you on Tuesday, 22 March 2022

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