The Green Canoe: Recent Episodes
Philip Roberts
This podcast draws on the teaching and research of the Rural Education and Communities research group at the University of Canberra, ACT, Australia. Topics covered are rurality and professional practice in, and for, rural places, curriculum and rural knowledges. There might also be a little about canoeing.
In this episode we talk with Alana Moller, Federal President of the Isolated Children's Parents' Association of Australia for Geographically Isolated Distance Education Day.
Here we discuss how rurality relates to professional practice with reference to ongoing work on the professions and distance education. Our guest is Natalie Downes.
This episode introduces the research group that hosts the series, with a guest presenter Natalie Downes.
What does rural China have in common with Australia? in this conversation with Lixia Qin we discuss rural schools in China.
In this conversation we talk with Prof Michelle Lincoln about the attraction and retention in Allied Health
In this discussion with Prof Lesley Chenoweth we discuss social workers in rural communities, the issues they face and how to prepare professionals for rural contexts.
This instalment is an overview of the challenges of accessing professions in non-metropolitan contexts, and some of the reasons why this is often the case. Following a general overview I look at the sample of education.
How is the rural recognised in policy? how are their needs addressed as distinct and situated? In this discussion Gabrielle Chan discusses contemporary issues in rural policy.
the notion of community is often used to describe the rural, in this episode we look at the understanding of community as a contested idea that as much excludes as includes. I talk with Prof Mike Corbett on the rural community trope.
Prof Barbara Pini discusses the meaning of using the rural as a crucible of a form of morality and as a restorative place in popular culture, and other mythologies.
Professor Jo-Anne Reid discussing preparing teachers for rural places and the Rural Social Space model.
In this instalment I talk with Prof Daniela Stehlik, who puts forward the definition that 'the rural is political'
In this instalment we explore how different ways of understanding the rural influence how the rural is experienced.
In this episode we talk to Professor Adrian Piccoli, Director of the Gonski Institute for Education.
In this episode we look at how the rural is defined in the literature and what the approaches to defining the rural afford.