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Conference paper
Playing whilst injured: More on Phobosophy and Philosophy
Published 2008
Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) 2008: Sociology as a discipline stream, 02/12/2005–05/12/2005, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
An analysis of injury in sport is used to carry the discussion about phobosophy just a little further. The relevance of the idea of 'playing whilst injured' to scholarly work generally, to philosophy and phobosophy more specifically, and subsequently to ordinary members of society is intimated.
Conference paper
Philosophy, Phobosophy and Sociology
Published 2007
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Joint Conference (2007), 04/12/2007–07/12/2007, Auckland, New Zealand
Works by Nigel Pleasants and Ian Hunter are considered in such a way as to display key relevant features of their version of philosophy and to facilitate a conceptualisation of phobosophy. This process leads to the conclusion that we might be wise to treat sociology, along with many other forms of human activity, as creative activities rather than as forms of meticulous description.
Conference paper
Student needs and support: The beginnings of an alternative view
Published 2001
9th International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, 07/10/2001–10/10/2001, Cambridge, England
In the first section of this paper I outline Bradshaw's typology of needs with a view to problematising the seemingly straightforward notion "needs" and by implication problematising its consequences for student "support". In the second section I seek to illustrate how the conventional notion of student needs and student support draws attention away from rather than towards their and our 'real' needs. In the third section I outline the implications of this account for universities in such a way as to provide a reminder of a very different way of contextualising and subsequently conceptualising supporting students in Open and Distance Learning.
Conference paper
Distance Education and de-differentiation
Published 1999
13th Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities: Open , flexible and distance Learning : Education and Training in the 21st Century, 14/10/1999–17/10/1999, Beijing, China
No abstract available
Conference paper
Published 1997
HERDSA 1997: Advancing International Perspectives, 08/07/1997–11/07/1997, Adelaide, South Australia
No abstract available
Conference paper
Contemporary debates about bureaucracy: Implications for dual mode universities
Published 1996
HERDSA 1996: Different Approaches: Theory and Practice in Higher Education, 08/07/1996–12/07/1996, Perth, W.A.
No abstract available
Conference paper
Published 1993
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING: EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: An international conference on issues of quality for new models of education, 28/09/1993–30/09/1993, Downing College, Cambridge
A schematic overview of the characteristics of two differing utopian perspectives with a specific focus upon their implications for higher education will be presented. In this way attention will be drawn to the limiting nature of the parameters within which dominant contemporary educational discourse takes place and the boundaries generated for debates about the quality of distance education will be revealed. Attention will be focussed upon the recent Australian policy document "Achieving Quality". A number of recommendations are drawn from this particular analysis which enable us to orient to the future of distance education in a more carefully considered and less constrained manner.
Conference paper
Open learning: Schooling and retooling society or deschooling and societal retooling?
Published 1990
Open Learning and New Technology (OLNT '90), 29/06/1990–30/06/1990, Curtin University, Western Australia
In this paper I seek to resurrect the debate engendered in the 1970s by Ivan Illich's work Deschooling society in order to illustrate how open learning strategies can be used to serve diametrically opposed interests. The product of this interplay of interests will have a crucial influence upon the future we generate...
Conference paper
Distance learning, efficiency and scientific management
Published 1983
6th Biennial Forum, Australia & South Pacific External Studies Association (ASPESA), 11/07/1983–15/07/1983, Toowoomba, QLD
No abstract available