The Layered Landscape of Higher Education

Margaret Kumar is a Senior Fellow (Honorary) at The University of Melbourne, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Odisha, India. Dr Kumar lectures in Teacher Training, Research and Academic Skills Training, Multilingualism, Global Literacies, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Her research interests provide insightful perspectives on positioning Methodologies, Curriculum issues, Cultures of Learning, and New Knowledge Systems. Supriya Pattanayak is the Vice Chancellor of the Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Odisha, India. She has extensive teaching, research and policy experience and her research interest is in the field of gender and development, sustainable livelihoods, research methodologies, and social work pedagogies in different contexts. Nish Belford is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests in Creative arts and teacher education explore culturally responsive teaching and pedagogies for diversity and inclusion. Other research areas include gendered subjectivities of transnational women with education, work, family, diasporic cultures and identities.

Introduction: Deliberation Part 1: Capturing Curriculum 1. A Curriculum is about content, process, context, and relationality…and they (should) always go together… 2. Dismantling sounds and silences of heritage curriculum and traditional pedagogies in music education 3. Conceptualising ‘The Research Question’, ‘Academic Acclimatisation’, and ‘Supervisory Understandings’, for International Research Candidates 4. Exploration of Curriculum Issues on STEM Subjects from an Australian – Indian Knowledge Perspective 5. Flexible curriculum to meet the needs of disadvantaged students during the Pandemic Part 2: Diversity 6. Intercultural collaborative pedagogy and co-design for Architecture and Built Environment Education 7. Culturally Responsive Teaching with pre-service teachers and the challenges to action Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in an Australian Education context 8. Teaching medical laboratory sciences in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) environment 9. Reflections on culturally responsive practices and pedagogies: Higher Education and Initial Teacher Education Programs and support, inclusivity and diversity in the Australian context 10. Teaching and learning to support inclusion in Law Education: Autoethnographic Reflections of a Law Teacher 11. Tertiary programs in Chinese languages: Challenges and expectations of mixed-background students Part 3: Cultures of Learning 12. Engaging Care for Mother Earth as Central Pedagogy for Sustainable, and Regenerative Social Work: A Field Education Example from lutruwita Tasmania 13. Work integrated learning (WIL): An investigation of strategies to enable access, participation, and success for Australian First Nations Students 14. Graduating from University: Cultures of Learning 15. The Importance of Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers in the History of Aboriginal Health in Victoria in the Period 1982-2010- Interview between Aunty Lyn McInnes and Dr Margaret Kumar 16. Australia - India Partnerships in Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons for students – Interview between Professor Mukti Mishra and Professor Supriya Pattanayak 17. Cultures of learning in social work field education: Australian students’ experience Concluding Chapter – Future Focus