Keynote Lectures

The conference will feature a number of thought-provoking keynote lectures by prominent researchers.
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The 2008 AARE Radford Lecture

Professor Bernadette Baker

Professor, School of Education, the Center for Global Studies, and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin, USA.

Professor Baker's research has examined shifting analytics of power in political philosophy, inscriptions of the child within prescriptions for child rearing, and the conceptualisation of change in canonized anglophone texts ( In Perpetual Motion: Theories of Power, Educational History, and the Child). She has also edited with Katy Heyning Dangerous Coagulations: The Uses of Foucault in the Study of Education and has forthcoming with Sense Publishers an edited volume titled New Curriculum History. She has published widely in educational philosophy, educational history, and curriculum studies.

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Professor Barry McGaw

Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute (MERI), University of Melbourne, Australia.

Formerly Director for Education in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris, Professor McGaw has also served as Executive Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Professor McGaw has a distinguished research record in educational measurement and learning, and extensive experience in curriculum development and assessment management in the upper secondary years. He has chaired or been a member of government committees in Australia, England, Canada and Ireland. In 2000, Professor McGaw was a key figure in the development of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which measures the reading, mathematics and scientific skills of 250,000 students from 32 countries. The research also explored the significance of school structure and approaches to ensuring school success.

Professor Martin Nakata

Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning & Chair of Australian Indigenous Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Professor Nakata has spent many years exploring the knowledge interface between Western disciplines and Australian Indigenous people to find a way to think about Indigenous education beyond the 'cultural difference' agenda. His book, Disciplining the savages - Savaging the disciplines which draws on some of this work has just been published by Aboriginal Studies Press.

Presidential Address

Professor Noel Gough

Foundation Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education Latrobe University, Victoria, Australia.

Professor Gough's teaching, research and publications focus on research methodology and curriculum studies, with particular reference to environmental education, science education, internationalisation and globalisation. In 1997 he was awarded the inaugural Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Education Research. He is the author or editor of five books, including Curriculum Visions (2002) and Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education (2007), and has published more than 100 book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He is a current editor of Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, the journal of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies