AWE CONFERENCE – PROGRAM

 

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WEDNESDAY 4/10

THURSDAY 5/10

FRIDAY 6/10

TIME

ACTIVITY

ACTIVITY

ACTIVITY

07.00

 

Beach Walk

Beach Walk

08.00

Registration

 

 

08.30

Coffee and Mingle

Coffee and Mingle

Coffee and Mingle

09.00

 

Welcome Opening of conference

 

 

 

Presentation of AWE student awards

 

 

AWE Showcase

09.30

 

Keynote

Professor Jill Blackmore

 

 

Keynote

Dr. Jackie Holt

 

Keynote

Professor Jane Kenway

10.30

Morning Tea

Morning Tea

Morning Tea

11.00

 

 

Paper presentations Session 1

Dr Eileen Honan (Learn)

Discourse of deficit surrounding the use of new technologies

Karen Dempster (Lead)

Messages Women send – the good the bad and the inaccurate

 

 

Paper presentations Session 1

Professor Karen Starr (Lead)

The Leadership 'Crisis' in Education: 

Why women are not seizing this opportunity

Kylie Readman

Assessment - no laughing matter!

Alex Haynes

Getting Real: Young Women and Girls, Working Futures , VET and VET in Schools

 

Paper presentations Session 1

Dr Eileen Honan (Learn)

Discourse of deficit surrounding the use of new technologies

Professor Karen Starr (Lead)

The things I wish I had known before embarking on the principalship

12.00

 

Paper presentations Session 2

Cate McMillan (Lead)

Is Education a Career for Women?

Jan Foster

Critical illness, families and coping:

How do we do it?

 

 

Paper presentations Session 2

Dr Lisa C. Ehrich (Lead)

Mentoring for Educators:  Some Issues for Women

Dr Carole Ford (Learn)

‘Boys are doctors, girls are nurses'

The intersection of socialisation, curriculum and education practice: implications for gendered occupational selection

 

 

Paper presentations Session 2

Colleen Steiler (Learn)

Dr Carole Ford (Learn)

‘If she was a boy, she could do an apprenticeship'

Career development in post-compulsory education: a practitioner's paper

 

01.00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

02.00

 

Leadership Panel

Moderator:   Dr Jennifer Nayler, Erica Green,

Professor Jill Blackmore

  Models of Leadership: Innovative Practices for Leading, Learning and Laughing

 

Workshop/Round table Sessions

Maria Delaney (Learn)

Building Motivation for Feminist Action in Your School

Karen Dempster (Lead)

Messages Women send – the good the bad and the inaccurate

Mary Amohanga (Laugh)

Who You Are Matches What You Do

 

 

Workshop/Round table Sessions

Maria Delaney (Learn)

How to make the Federal Government's “Success for Boys” program a success for girls too.

Gaye Vale (Laugh)

Choice and flexibility – sounds good - but for whom?

Dr Jennifer Nayler (Lead)

  Put AWE into your pedagogy!

Practical ideas and possibilities for inclusive teaching strategies

03.30

Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea and

Conference Close

04.00

Well Being Sessions

Well Being Sessions

 

05.00

to

06.30

 

Conference Reception

 

Free Time

 

 

06.30

to

07.00

 

 

Pre-Dinner drinks

 

07.00

to

11.00

 

 

Conference Dinner

Dinner Speaker:  Susan Maushart

 

 

Well Being Sessions include – Aromatherapy, Jewellery, Edible centre pieces, Scrap booking, Massage, Art Tarot card reading, Aqua aerobics, Gym/personal trainer