1st Global Conference
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Monday 12th February - Wednesday 14th February
2007
Sydney, Australia
Conference Programme, Abstract and Papers
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme (v.1.5)
Monday 12th February 2007
from 12.30
Registration
14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Mira Crouch, Phil Fitzsimmons and Ram Vemuri
14.30
Session 1: Issues of Teaching and Learning
Chair: Mira Crouch
Megan Poore
Human Flourishing and Education in a Market Society
Richard Allen
A Personalised Curriculum?
15.30
Tea
16.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 2A: Issues of Teaching and Learning (cont)
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons
Khuan Wai Bing et al
Authentic Experience through Student-Generated Case Approach in a Management
Education Program
Jan Schapper
A Strategic Approach to Embedding Research-led Teaching
Lorraine Cleeton
Student Perceptions of Online Courses
Session 2B: Panel: New Media Technologies
and Pedagogy
Chair: Heather McKenzie
“Most Intellectuals Will Only Half Listen”:
Knowledge, Higher Education and Hip-Hop Studies
Graham Preston
Old Discourse, New Object: Wikipedia
Nathaniel Tkacz
5.45
Wine Reception
Tuesday 13th February
09.00
Session 3: The Dynamics of Change in Higher
Education
Chair: Tai Peseta
Grant Duncan
Shifting Discourses in Higher Education: The Performance Based Research
Fund in New Zealand
Heintz Kreutz
Epistemological Uncertainties in the Discourses of Higher Education
Mira Crouch
How to Figure it Out? The Demise of Matriculation
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Structures Under Pressure
Chair: Robert Kirkpatrick
Atif Khan
Public vs Private: The Dilemma for Faculty Members in Pakistan
Francine Rochford
Why Universities 'oversell what we do least well’? Conception
of Knowledge and the Modern University
Farough Amin Mozaffari
Convergent Trends in Iranian Private Higher Education
Session 4B: e-Process and Progress in Higher
Education
Chair: Ram Vemuri
K. Balaveera Reddy et al
Learner Centric Evaluation in India: A Case Study
Tanya du Plessis
Permanent Linking: A Virtual Learning Environment Content Integration
Strategy
Ian Morley
The Impact of the Internet upon the Commodity of Knowledge and the
Craft of History
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Facets of Knowledge Production
Chair: Matthew Steen
Stephen Healy
Politics and the Knowledge Economy: The Role of the Tertiary Sector
Tai Peseta and Catherine Manathunga
The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: Resistance and Responsibility
in Academic Development
Molly Yang
Why Mainland China’s Students Study in Australian Higher Education
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 6: Transformations: of Knowledge, with Knowledge
Chair: Grant Duncan
Ram Vemuri
Managing Knowledge Pluralism
Robert Kirkpatrick
Changing Priorities in the Japanese University English Curriculum
Craig Collins
Pericles was a Plumber: Towards Resolving the ‘Vocational’ versus ‘Liberal’ Dichotomy
in Legal Education
17.30
Sessions End
Wednesday 14th February
09.00
Session 7: Policies, Histories and other Heresies
Chair: Christine Lee
John McDonald
Valuing Intellectual Freedom: A Critical Analysis of Policies in Australian
Universities
Mark Rolfe
Culture Wars and the Classics in Australian Rhetoric
Matthew Steen
The Mutation of Economics
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Knowledge, Competence, Practice
Chair: Megan Poore
Heather McKenzie et al
Contemporary Nursing’s Struggle to Articulate its Knowledge Base
Christine Lee
The Theory vs Practice Balance at Universities
Gopalkrishna Joshi et al
Data Management in e-governance through “push-and-pull” Technique – A
Case Study
12.30 Lunch
2.00
Session 9: The Deeper Meaning?
Chair: Ian Morley
Abbas Saeedipour
The Fragmentalization of Knowledge in Higher Education: Controversies
over the Humanities
Mireta van Gerlach
The Value of knowledge: Overcoming Borders
Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi
The Equalization of Knowledge with Information: Challenges for Religious
Education
3.30 Coffee
4.00
Development Meeting
5.00
Conference Close