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'IN 1816. DAVID Brewster. a Scottish mathematician and physicist, invented a new kind of optical device. A narrow tube. fragments of coloured glass gathered loosely at oen end were rearranged as the tube turned, refracting a series of recombining mandalas for the viewer (at the other end) thanks to mirrors set inside. A slight turn and a whole new vista appeared - impossible to predict, to enumerate. to return to. Brewster called it a kaleidoscope, a 'philosophical Instrument* that changes what was possible to 'see' and how.' (Ashley Hey : Introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Remaking Universities : Notes from the sidelines of Catastrophe by Raewyn Connell
Simulated Learning : Big Tech and the Teaching Takeover by Kasumi Borczyk
Schooled : How Australia Lost the Plot on Education by Andrew Leigh
The Reading Revolution : How Change begins with the Under-Fives by Catherine Keenan
Holding the Baby : Australia's Early Childhood Divide by Bri Lee
By Design : New Foundations for Teaching and Learning by Pasi Sahlberg
Compulsory Wellbeing : The Choice between Burnout and Demoralisation by G. J. Stroud
Follow the Leader : Reclaiming Australia's Innovation Tradition by Gwilym Croucher
Climbing the Opportunity Ladder : The Burden of Hope and Ambition by Helen Proctor
Tech Future, Human Rights : The Need for Digital STEM Literacy by Catherine Ball
Performance Enhancement : The Enduring Value of Acting Schools by Melanie Myers
Contents
- Following the Song : Listening, Learning and Knowing, single work autobiography (p. 24-32)
- What Did You Want to Be When You Grew up?i"dad, did you ever want to live with a monkey butler? wear", single work poetry (p. 47)
- Double, single work short story (p. 73-83)
- The Colonial Storytelling of Good Intent : Or the Inspired Erasure of Our Ancestors?, single work essay (p. 110-122)
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'I Will Not Be Doing It Again' : Reflections on Anxiety in Generation Z,
single work
autobiography
(p. 134-139)'I've been teaching at Australian universities for twenty-five years now. I began when I was twenty-seven - I'm now fifty-two. This means I've been next to university students since 1996, an if you're curious about these things, you see patterns begin to emerge.' (Introduction)
- Real Fobs, single work short story (p. 140-144)
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The Whitlam Legacy : Reconsidering a Revolutionary Approach to Funding,
Verity Firth
(interviewer),
Madeleine Clark
(interviewer),
single work
interview
(p. 157-165)'In this first of a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the Whitlam era in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 election, a former New South Wales ALP Minister for Education talks with a current tertiary student activist about the changing landscape of education — and advocacy — past, present and future. ' (Introduction)
- University Material, single work short story (p. 177-188)
- Sacraments of Guilt : Reconciling with Divorce, single work autobiography (p. 208-219)
- Top of the Class : Busting the Meritocracy Myth, single work autobiography (p. 220-229)
- Vestigial, single work short story (p. 230-244)
- High Resolvei"So I taught myself to run again (again)", single work poetry (p. 245)
- Dramatics, single work short story (p. 256-267)
