Eyewitnesses, Memory and Oral History
Radio National’s Hindsight had an excellent program this week. Inga Clendinnen, Paul Thompson, Peter Read, Heather Goodall, Sean Field and Bonnie Smith took part in the program (podcast here) titled The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. I thought the program explored very effectively the relationships between history and memory. I liked in particular the discussion [...]
Observation +
I received an alert today via a LinkedIn group about a Performa Sports App. I discovered that “Performa Sports is the performance analysis tool that gives analysts, coaches and players the edge”. The availability of applications like this is offering real-time opportunities for observation + support for coaches and players. It has been fascinating to [...]
Do People Who Have Lost Their Voice Have To Do It?
Introduction I undertook three years of fieldwork in two schools in the mid 1980s as part of my part-time PhD studies in the teaching of boys’ physical education in the secondary school. Other than a chapter in a book of readings edited by Andrew Sparkes (1992) the only account of my work is in the [...]
Edging to Open Learning in Open Spaces
Last week I had the opportunity to visit Ballarat to discuss Edgeless Challenges and Opportunities. I have been thinking a great deal about learning spaces and the function (rather than the form) of the university of late. In part these thoughts have been stimulated by the University of Canberra’s development of teaching and learning commons. [...]
Coincidence, Serendipity and Synchronicity
An item on Radio National’s Book Program introduced me to Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz’s Australian Encounters. It is a “little book of literary trivia about chance meetings, and some influential ones too, between writers, politicians, artists, singers and activists.” Subjects in the book include Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Donald Bradman and Boris Karloff, [...]
