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SUMMARY:Juggling School-Research partnerships: funding\, methodologies\, a
 ccountability and impact.  - Associate Professor Madonna Stinson\,  School
  of Education and Professional Studies Griffith University\, Australia
DTSTART:20190501T153000Z
DTEND:20190501T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation Associate Professor Stinson considers cha
 llenges and dilemmas for researchers in school-based research\, as illustr
 ated by one case study from Y-Connect\, a three-year school-university res
 earch project\, funded by the Queensland government’s\, “Collaboration
  Innovation Fund”. The study is situated in one inner-city\, government 
 high school with a high proportion of new arrival students. Many of the st
 udents migrated (or sought asylum) from 52 countries\, with 75% of the pop
 ulation having an ESAL background. Inspired by John Carey’s (2005) claim
  that “redemptive self-respect” (Carey\, 2005\, 255) can be engendered
  through active participation in arts learning\, Y-Connect supported artis
 ts and teachers to work together to provide arts-rich environments and art
 s-informed pedagogies throughout classes in the Junior Secondary years. Th
 e questions guiding Y-Connect were: How has participation in Y-Connect imp
 acted on the young people involved? What factors have enabled and constrai
 ned the success of the project? And\, what further impacts are evident wit
 hin and beyond the school community? This presentation critically analyses
  the research journey in this context and questions the appropriateness of
  systemic accountability\, as well as what is considered impact.\n\nDr Mad
 onna Stinson is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Profess
 ional Studies\, Griffith University. Her research and teaching concentrate
 s on creative approaches to curriculums and pedagogies\, in particular wit
 h regard to drama and language learning. She is particularly interested in
  methodologies that allow researchers to consider how we know and understa
 nd what is happening in the space between teaching and learning. Madonna
 ’s work considers innovations and connections within creative pedagogies
  and curriculums with the potential of offering opportunities for student 
 agency and improving learning across the lifespan. Madonna has worked as a
  primary and early years teacher\, a secondary Head of Performing Arts\, a
  curriculum writer\, an artistic director\, an actor and playwright before
  becoming an academic. Recent research projects include Age Appropriate Pe
 dagogies for the Department of Education and Training\, Queensland (2015-2
 016)\, Y-Connect\, a 3-year teaching-artist project in a Brisbane secondar
 y school with a high proportion of students from asylum-seeking background
 s\, and 200 Children’s Voice\, what young children say about learning\n\
 n 
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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