Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant implications for higher education; however, references to AI in the literature are often vague and open debate. In order understand how progress AI-related research analysis, this critical review systematically searched top education journals term ‘artificial intelligence’. We reviewed definitions conducted a discourse analysis of included texts. Our findings identify few, confusing little overt reference as object. delineated two...

While the impact of global COVID-19 pandemic upon higher education institutions has been well documented, less is known about how academics themselves responded to these rapid changes. This paper analyses experiences teacher from Australia and New Zealand (n = 13) who were interviewed during lengthy lockdowns. Whilst rarely using language resistance, participants revealed multiple ways they navigated seemingly totalising forces neoliberalism through working maintain quality education,...

Concerns about graduate teacher readiness have been a key focus of Australian government reviews over the past decade. However, extent to which policy expectations align with realities teaching in 'hard-to-staff' schools remains unclear. This paper examines how principals from two that traditionally grappled staffing challenges define through context-specific qualities such as local knowledge, community engagement, adaptability, and resilience. These attributes, considered crucial by for...

Guided by the work of bell hooks, this study uses her concept ‘radical openness’ as an innovation for multi-party facilitation teams negotiating different roles, positionalities and understandings youth participatory action research (YPAR). We explore challenges we negotiated facilitators in YPAR they materialised weekly reflections. write a team two project leaders, three researchers manager. Data comprised recordings collaborative meetings, reflections focus groups. Two themes captured...

The widening participation agenda means that students will be entering degree courses with increasingly diverse needs, particularly respect to the academic skills necessary for successful tertiary study in Australia.This paper presents findings from a mixed methods project investigating first year social work students' perceived role and their development.Students expressed perception skill requirements how they would assessed should made explicit, identified stigma associated accessing...

A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary communities practice (CoPs) to develop teaching learning. CoPs are popularly defined as groups people who share a passion for something and, together, learn how do it better. Without further specification, this definition is limited use in understanding intentionally higher education settings. The term CoP used applied range ways has been accompanied by some scholarly debate about the meaning relevance...

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This paper aims to contribute fresh insights into youth participatory action research (YPAR) by using bell hooks' engaged pedagogy illuminate the process of co-designing a program for transition beyond secondary school. Engaged is critical that combines consciousness and radical wholeness seeks foster learning community. The 10-week YPAR included six staff collaborators (SCs) five (YCs). Data comprised recordings weekly collaborative group meetings; interviews with SCs YCs; reflections...

For decades Australian universities have used equity scholarships as a tool to widen participation in higher education despite limited empirical evidence about how such influence students' retention and success outcomes. This paper reports on the first cross-institutional study investigate relationship between recipients' The comparative case approach triangulate cohort survey data 2013 academic year for scholarship holders at three universities. Using an established conceptual framework of...

The marketisation of higher education (HE) has created a number tensions and ideological dilemmas that may influence how academics see their roles teaching practices. This paper explores in the discipline social work (who were also leadership roles) perceive identities manage arise for them as teachers current HE environment. Unless are articulated, it is not possible to understand impact on academics. lead loss quality learning experiences students lower workplace satisfaction. addresses...

Responses to COVID-19 impacts have shown how quickly universities can change, given the impetus. However, global disruptions university learning and teaching not yet been matched by any significant change leadership. Taking gender equity as our focus, we argue that pedagogical disruption should extend beyond classroom reshape academic In this commentary critically reflect on question ‘How leaders share power nurture caring ethical leadership’? some cues from teaching, call work of bell hooks...

While university participation has widened, retention and success rates remain lower for some diverse Australian undergraduate cohorts, e.g. students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds, Indigenous with disability. Institutional characteristics culture are more important factors in attrition than student characteristics. This paper explores how universities could develop learning teaching communities that inclusive through insights into complex relationships between diversity, academic...

Abstract This paper uses the framework of transition as becoming to explore what young people learned from participating in a post-secondary program that was co-designed by people. The 9-week youth participatory action research (YPAR) involved six staff collaborators (SCs) and seven (YCs). Data comprised recordings weekly group meetings, interviews, reflections artefacts such planning documents, graphic organisers writing. We discuss findings using two themes we identified together team YCs...

Increasingly, competing discourses shape tensions between the role of contemporary university and global markets in which universities must exist. This paper draws on examination interviews with nine education academics Australia to illuminate construction 'global' production graduate (GG). Discourse analysis is used explore how, against backdrop COVID 19, participants construct different identities variously related current future orientations for GG. uses two big 'D' – efficiency as...

Pedagogical partnerships are rarely used to explore how students develop agency through Work Integrated Learning (WIL). This study contributes this gap by exploring pedagogical between students, industry experts and subject leaders in a postgraduate online WIL capstone assisted gain clarity about their professional identities as careers practitioners. To further scholarly understanding appreciation for WIL, we use narrative methods provide insight into counselling learned the process of...