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 Dear alumni and friends
Welcome to the new Alumni & Friends quarterly newsletter of the Faculty of Education & Social Work. As well as graduates of the Faculty, friends are invited to subscribe to this e-news: former and current staff, current students who are not yet graduates, those from stakeholder organisations, and those working in the fields of Education and Social Work or simply with an interest in matters of relevance are welcome.
As we begin this publication venture, we welcome your input. Indeed, we would love feedback and suggestions on the newsletter and especially on a name for the newsletter. Please email suggestions to Helen Loughlin. In terms of suggestions for a newsletter name, we’re looking for one-word that is robust to encompass the possibilities of the newsletter and perhaps inclusive of all the sectors of our Faculty. The August edition will bear the newsletter’s new moniker as well as details of the alumna/us or friend whose suggestion is chosen. The ‘winner’ will receive a signed copy of Delia Falconer’s book Sydney (NewSouth 2011).
Apart from this newsletter, you should visit our website. In so doing you will find that we have also updated and added to the Alumni & Friends section of the Faculty’s website. You will find regularly updated information on our activities. We are planning to establish a Faculty of Education & Social Work Alumni & Friends Association in 2012. In the meantime, we are keen to welcome back alumni and any ‘lost alumni’ -- those who fallen out of contact with us.
This newsletter and the website will serve as a ‘hub’ for news for our alumni & friends, as well as highlighting their achievements and stories, and announcing forthcoming events. By being a part of this community you can meet fellow graduates, reconnect with classmates, take part in casual social gatherings and attend professionally-relevant events and make the most of networking opportunities.
We welcome you to your Faculty of Education & Social Work and look forward to building a vibrant community with you.
Professor Robert J Tierney
Dean, Faculty of Education and Social Work
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| LATEST NEWS |
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| ALUMNA PROMOTED TO PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL JUSTICE |
The Faculty congratulates Social Work alumna Jude Irwin who this year was promoted to Professor of Social Work and Social Justice. | | | |
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| NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD 2011 SPECIAL PRIZE WINNER TO BE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE |
| We’re delighted to announce that the Faculty’s Adjunct Associate Professor, Libby Gleeson AM, an award-winning and highly acclaimed writer will be the Faculty’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence for a three-month period in second semester this year. | | | |
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| ALUMNUS AND EMERITUS PROFESSOR KEN ELTIS AWARDED HONORARY DEGREE |
| The Faculty of Education & Social Work is very proud to congratulate distinguished alumnus and Emeritus Professor Ken Eltis who was awarded a Doctor of Education (honoris causa) at a graduation ceremony in the Great Hall in April this year. | | | |
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| PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION IN TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE |
| One of the Faculty’s distinguished staff members, Professor Peter Goodyear, was named in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Sydney magazine as one of the city's Top 100 Most Influential People. Professor Goodyear was selected as one of just five from the field of Education. | | | |
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| FACULTY ALUMNA AND ACADEMIC ROBYN EWING LAUNCHES NEW BOOK |
| Sydney Theatre Company co-artistic directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton launched Professor Robyn Ewing’s new book The Arts and Australian Education at a glittering party at the Wharf Theatre on 15 March this year. | | | |
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PROFESSOR LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND:
LESSONS FROM THE U.S. |
The FESW in partnership with the Australian Education Union and the Australian College of Educators hosted an evening with Professor Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University at the Faculty on Monday 2 May 2011.
As the US experiences significant 'educational reform', Darling-Hammond provided insights into lessons from the US which could potentially make all the difference to the future of education in Australia. It’s a fascinating insight and of interest to the FESW Alumni & Friends and is available as a podcast on the Faculty’s site.
Darling-Hammond is Charles E Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network, and has served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP). She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. She was education advisor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and was reportedly among candidates for Secretary of Education in the Obama administration.
"Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers." from Linda Darling-Hammond’s award-winning book, The Right to Learn (1997)
A podcast of the event is available on the FESW website. |
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| TEN QUESTIONS |
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In each issue of this e-news, we’ll be highlighting a member of the Faculty’s Alumni & Friends group. This issue we talk to BELINDA LUSCOMBE who completed a Diploma in Education in 1986 and is now editor-at-large at Time magazine in New York. Follow her path from here to there.
"Teachers and social workers are the front line of the fight to get people out of the depressing repeating cycle of poverty and festering misery and squandered ability"
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