Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Karen Charman

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Position Lecturer in Education Studies
Email karen.charman@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 522 72073
Campus Geelong
Location Waurn Ponds
Role and profile Lecturer in Education Studies
Course Coordinator Associate Degree in Arts, Business and Science
Research interests Karen's research interests are student learning through public spaces, learner identities and educational strategies to achieve adequate academic preparation. She is currently undertaking research into curriculum design to embed post-secondary school students into museum spaces. This design includes students engaging in historical and contemporary research around the theme of immigration, curatorial work and the collection and digital recording of oral history. This research is in partnership with Victoria University and Immigration Museum Melbourne and is funded by a research grant from Museum Victoria.
Memory, representation and archives.
Memory Spaces-the use of public spaces to facilitate and curate public memories. This project is currently running in Sunshine.
Current research projects ALTC INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS PROGRAM
Title: Collaborative exchanges with museums to engage Humanities and Education students in experiential learning and citizenship

Awards Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to 'Rural and Regional Engagement. 2011
Commendation for Excellence in Teaching 2011
Qualifications PhD Doctor of Philosophy: Eugenics and the 1930's Novels of Jean Devanny and Eleanor Dark. Awarded 2012.

Master in Psychonalytic Theory. Awarded 2007
Conferences Landscapes of the Self 2010: joint presentation with E.G Crichton UCSC The Wandering Archive: Ruth Reid and Kent Hyde a memoir.

Invited speaker: Narrative Symposium 2011. Narrative Network Victoria University, Melbourne. Paper title: The Wandering Archive.
Publications

The new higher education reality: what is an appropriate model to address the widening participation agenda? Dawson, Charman and Kilpatrick Higher Education Research & Development (accepted for publication Feb 2012 published 2013)

Education for a new ‘museology'.
This article analyses the lnks between a curriculum approach, access to knowledge and attendant cultural capital. International Journal of Inclusive Education. Published 2012

Bringing the outside in--Artifacts in a University classroom.
This article theories the affect of artifacts in a post-secondary classroom setting using three case studies. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory I examine the interplay of memory and resistance.
Special issue of Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies on the topic of “Provocations: (Re)visioning data in qualitative research” Forthcoming (2013)

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22nd April 2013