Spirits & Cat Ears, Vol. 4

This work is a powerful and well-informed discussion of the ways in which learning may be enhanced in the university sector through pedagogical action research as a practice-changing practice. Importantly, it gives back to academic practitioners a sense of agency in an environment too often constrained by regulatory frameworks devised by others. The book acknowledges the diversity of today’s tertiary students and their teachers and the dilemmas of practice that arise for each. It employs vignettes as occasions for reflection and learning. The practice examples are derived from a variety of professional fields from visual arts to engineering and psychology. The book acknowledges that teaching is forever unfinished business and should be open to ongoing change and improvement, in particular by drawing attention to the notion of praxis as morally informed action that employs ethics as a means of enhancing quality control.

Susan Groundwater-Smith AM, Honorary Professor, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia

This is a timely and useful second edition　which provides　an invaluable guide on undertaking action research for　pedagogical (or andragogical) research in higher education. This updated text shows how it is possible to combine a desire to understand with an impetus to act. It show how practical interests can be combined with theory to generate both practical and theoretical insights.　 Embracing this text would add sophistication to current trend for metrics to be the ultimate measure of quality. Following Norton's advice is likely to have an impact on these measures of performance but will more importantly ensure that any changes are deeper, more sophisticated and arguably more authentic. It is a reminder that everyone involved in education in universities can be involved in, and can benefit from, educational action research. 
Andrew Townsend, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

This book presents itself as a practical guide to pedagogical action research (PAR) which can assist anyone wishing to use PAR to evaluate and refine their own practice. It is aimed at a higher education (HE) audience but is intended to be accessible not only to lecturers but also to those working in a learning and teaching support role in HE who are interested in action research. The writing style lives up to this aspiration to be inclusive; it demonstrates academic rigour, but the language and layout are both accessible and inviting. The author plainly has a lot of experience and enthusiasm for the field of action research and both of these qualities come across very clearly in her writing, drawing you in to the topics she is discussing.
Cathal O’Siochru, Psychology Learning & Teaching

A Practical Guide to Conducting Pedagogical Research in Universities

Action Research in Teaching and Learning

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The 39-Storey Treehouse

Seventy-Five Instructional Activities to Foster Independent, Proactive Students, Grades 6-12

Teaching Self-Regulation

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Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls

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Ramblings

'This accomplished and inventive book puts the cultural practices of Aboriginal peoples in conversation with some of the most challenging forms of contemporary critical theory. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll initiates a rhetoric of reading that transforms traditional accounts of the relationship of the arts of perception to strategies of power. Her "anachronic method" creates a scholarly world in which temporal distances and differences collaborate in the making of contemporary art. Her achievement is both substantial and remarkably subtle.' - Homi K. Bhabha, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University, USA

'This is a stunning and ambitious study of cross cultural encounters which reveals their nuanced and unexpected poetics and violence. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll’s self proclaimed ‘museum in a book’ employs a creative and highly original way of thinking about the time of the colony through anachronism and how the arc of colonial time might be best thought of as being like the boomerang. Her stark juxtapositions and subtle weaving together of Aboriginal and colonial nineteenth-century art create emotive and acute alignments that are fascinating and timely. Rigorously researched, Art in the Time of the Colony is a seminal study that will change the way in which scholars approach visual culture and the postcolony. A tour de force.' - Natasha Eaton, University College London, In: Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians

’Carroll's superbly-written study of colonial art, history, science and cultural encounter in Australia is a compelling account of Indigenous responses to Western imposition...Carroll's volume offers rare insight for scholars into what Aboriginal Australia has always/already understood about Aboriginal art; that the art of perception has an immutable relationship with the strategies of colonial power. Carroll understands the patience with which Indigenous people endure post-colonialism. It is patience that underpins an unbroken process of creative resistance.’　Greg Lehman,　Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. In: Aboriginal Studies Journal‘
Refreshingly antithetical… Khadija brings an artist’s attention to the many material details and facts she analyses throughout the book. Thus we have extensive analyses of the work of Julie Gough in response to E. Phillips Fox and Eugene von Guerard, Vicky Cousins and Lee Darrock in response to the Koorie possum skins; Ricky Maynard in response Frankland’s proclamation; Brook Andrew in response to an image of Blandowski in response to one by Charles Sturt; the contemporary African-American artist Kara Walker in response to Tommy McRae; and Vernon Ah Kee in response to a contemporary critic of McRae; and the Arnhem Land sand painter Richard Birrinbirrin in response to the very tradition of which he is a part. These contemporary anachronistic responses constitute the artistic afterlife, or survivance, of the original work, allowing it to pass into our present. But the truly powerful, almost uncanny thing about Khadijas argument – and this in a way is the very condition of possibility for work that is able to do this – is that the Aboriginal artworks and artefacts of the nineteenth century already foresee this destiny for themselves. In other words, if it is a question of Dreamings, these Dreamings are not so much of that commonly cited and by now thoroughly domesticated fact that Aboriginal culture here constitutes a continuous tradition of some 60,000 years. No, rather we would say that the Dreamings here are Dreamings of the future, of their own future.’ Rex Butler, Professor of Art History & Theory Monash University Melbourne. 
‘The book is punctuated by aesthetic performances which confront and disturb us from the styles of reading to which we are accustomed. The emblem of this for me are the photographs scattered through the book, which were taken by Khadija in her role as art historian through the curator’s microscope of elements of the famous Tasmanian proclamation boards. These are the boards, which were intended as a form of legal pedagogy, of a kind of emplacement of European law and presence on the Aboriginal landscape… But what Khadija does is to zoom in, through the perfect optical gaze of a curator’s microscope to represent elements of that particular thing and these are thrown into the book, in particular irregular ways almost as moments of logical punctuation. Now what is crucial about this is that these images are profoundly in optical focus, but so absolutely, disturbingly out of focus and context. They are disturbing images.’　Richard Drayton,　Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King’s College London. In: Third Text
'Art in the Time of Colony is an absorbing, experimental interrogation of colonial art and encounter in Australia. The book is notable on many grounds, not least for its fresh research on the intriguing mid-nineteenth century scientific traveller Blandowski, almost forgotten until very recently, but above all for its perspective on art history, from the vantage point of contemporary art. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll's voice is distinctive and compelling.’ Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK
'History would have it that there are people without history. Or as Hegel wrote, they were natural cultures that had to perish as soon as the spirit of the West approached. The spirit of Hegel is a temporal spectre for Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll in her Art in the Time of Colony, and its inevitable teleology is brought into question by what she leads us to see in Australia's fragments of visual historical reckoning. Thus the artistic engagement in the nineteenth century between Australian inhabitants and European colonists is not just the subject of this original, passionate and beautifully written book, but it is the means of inquiry about the nature of time and perception and the arts of Australia today, reinserting a claim to history and aesthetics that is too often still denied to too many.' - Thomas B.F. Cummins, Harvard University, USA

'In this captivating book, historian, artist and curator Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll draws on contemporary Australian Aboriginal art to challenge historical blind spots and re-think stuffy conventions of art criticism. In exploring encounters between colonial visual cultures, her surprising, fresh and delightful juxtapositions bring new ideas and objects into view, and allow us to see familiar things anew. This book tackles the important task of reclaiming Aboriginal practice from anthropology for art and in doing so, challenges outmoded notions of colonialism, media, art, and even time.'- Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia, author of Eye Contact and The Flash of Recognition
'In her stunning study, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll takes her readers beyond the armchair enchantments of conventional accounts of Indigenous art, dissolving boundaries among art history, anthropology, history of science and contemporary art. She shows that resistance to white norms can take many and subtle forms, both in the nineteenth century and in the present. Readers of this book will see how Indigenous cultural traditions - in this instance Australian, however artificial that concept may be - though mutable and adaptable, perdure and interact with settler values in unexpected ways. Carroll's distinctive art history thereby brings pasts to light - Aboriginal and white - that would otherwise have remained obscure.'- Ivan Gaskell, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, USA

'The fascinating premise behind Khadjia von Zinnenburg Carroll's Art in the Time of Colony is an examination of how contemporary art has been used to stand in for gaps in the historical record of Indigenous Australians'. Kelli Cole, University of Adelaide In: Artlink journal Indigenous Issue
Art in the Time of Colony is an experiment in writing history and generating new knowledge via the discipline of fine art practice, asking what happens if the relationship between art and history is reversed? Instead of history being written to understand art, art becomes the paradigm through which to navigate our understanding of history… One of the achievements of Art in the Time of Colony is its articulation and embodiment of art practice as generative of knowledge. The book is an instance of an artist writing about both art and history as art, reflecting cogently and intelligently on her own practice and that of others, as well contextualising this practice in wider historical narratives. In doing so, Art in the Time of Colony demonstrates that art can be understood as a knowledge-forming discipline. - Alana Jelinek, University of Cambridge; In: Journal of Museum Ethnography

‘Carroll’s research speaks into the archive and activates and awakens the voices of Indigenous people, reuniting them not just with their objects but with the practices embedded within these objects. The result is a welcome addition to the scholarship of Indigenous art and the expansionary movement that can be created through a rigorous interdisciplinary approach. Invoking and inviting Indigenous participation and values, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll’s research helps to reconﬁgure our relationship to the archive and transforms both the archive and future processes of archivisation. Art in the Time of Colony　goes back and forth through history in order to grapple with objects suspended in time, and poses some of the most important questions of our age.’ -　Stephen Gilchrist, curator of Everywhen and Lecturer at Sydney University. In: Art Monthly

Art in the Time of Colony

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Kultur, Vielfalt, Integration

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Prize: Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, 2011, sponsored by The Folklore Society (UK)  'A hog-faced woman, murderous wives, blackface pirates - this rich collection of essays offers the latest word on British ballads from a wide spectrum of scholars in literature, ethnomusicology, folklore, and history. Required reading for anyone with a sophisticated interest in pre-1800 popular culture in Britain and America.' Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University, USA  'Ballads and Broadsides makes a significant contribution to extant research on ballad scholarship.'   Ethnomusicology  'This handsomely-produced volume brings together fifteen essays and an afterword, derived largely from the papers delivered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Early Modern Center's Winter Conference of 2006... It will make widely available much material not included in EEBO and ECCO.'  Rare Books Newsletter  '... the history of collecting and evaluating ballads from Pepys to the digital age, is particularly useful as an introduction to the study of ballads and deserves to be widely read. ... In representing the interests of 'literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history' the editors successfully promote the riches and the potential of EBBA.'  The Library  'Overall, this collection offers a fulfilling variety of subjects and approaches, but at the same time there is also a sense of common purpose and a lovely sense of collegial engagement between the different scholars and essays... The book can be very highly recommended both for those with interest in individual topics covered and as a first-rate sample of directions in recent and on-going ballad scholarship.'  Lied und PopulÃ¤re Kultur  'It is clear that the contributors to this volume have made an effort to construct the book as a conversation between disciplines and fields, collecting essays much like the ballad collectors they examine. The result is a

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