scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D'Olimpio ◽  
Andrew Peterson

This year the Journal of Philosophy in Schools kicked off with a special issue, volume 5 number 1, comprising seven invited articles that addressed the foundational question of why philosophy should be taught in schools. Deftly guest edited by Michael Hand from the University of Birmingham, the papers make a cumulative and convincing argument for why philosophy should be taught across the pre-tertiary educational curriculum. The issue makes a strong argument that may be used to defend and propagate the philosophy in schools movement. We hope it will be used pragmatically, politically, and persuasively by our readers to raise awareness and further the cause of teaching philosophy to young people and extending philosophy beyond the Academy.This issue honours one person who has dedicated his career to furthering this cause. Philip Cam is an international authority on philosophy in schools who has been a pioneer in introducing philosophy and ethics into schools in Australia. Phil completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he has been for over 30 years. In the various positions Phil has held at UNSW, in the Philosophy in Schools Association for NSW, and for the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA), he has worked hard, inspired and taught many, and contributed much to the shape of philosophy in schools across Australasia. This year, a little bird informed the JPS that Phil was retiring and turning 70, even while he continues to be productive, publishing, presenting and assisting with philosophy in schools projects and events. The opportunity thus presented itself to publish a collection of papers critically engaged with Cam’s work. Two further articles are included in this issue.  

Author(s):  
Jade Herriman ◽  
Emma Partridge

This paper describes in brief the findings of a research project undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The research was commissioned by and undertaken on behalf of the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW). The aim of the project was to investigate current practices of environmental and sustainability education and engagement within local government in NSW. The research was commissioned by DECCW as the preliminary phase of a larger project that the department is planning to undertake, commencing in 2010.


Author(s):  
Boyd Dirk Blackwell

The articles published in this special issue come from the blind peer review and refinement of papers presented to the biennial conference of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) held at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, New South Wales (NSW), Australia on 19-23 October 2015. All papers jointly contribute to helping transform the human existence toward one that is socially, culturally, environmentally, ecologically, economically and politically sustainable. Transforming our human existence to meet these multiple dimensions of ‘true’ sustainability is a difficult task, balancing potentially competing interests and, inevitably, involving trade-offs between these dimensions.


2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-67

Congratulations to Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook PhD, MHA, GradDipAppEpi, BAppSc (Medical Record Administration), who has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow. The Fellowship is the highest recognition possible in the health informatics discipline. Based upon peer election from current College Fellows, no more than two Fellowships are offered in any one year, and there are currently only two other Australian Fellows. This is a wonderful honour as it marks the highest peer recognition possible from the international community, reflecting Johanna's outstanding research work. Johanna is currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales and is an honorary Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Management at the University of Sydney. Johanna has published over 80 refereed journal articles and has received numerous research grants, the most recent of which is a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant of $583 000 for a study investigating the safety and effectiveness of hospital e-prescribing systems.


1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mukunda P Das ◽  
David Neilson

This volume contains the lectures given at the fourth international Gordon Godfrey workshop held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 26 to 28 September 1994. This time our lecturers came from Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and Vietnam, as well as of course from Australia. There was a total of seventeen lectures. The workshops are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University and are held annually at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Each workshop concentrates on a different and novel research area of current interest in condensed matter physics. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales who bequeathed his estate for the promotion and the teaching of theoretical physics within the university.


2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Davis ◽  
Victor Emeljanow

The theatre shelves of secondhand bookshops testify to the sometime popularity and prolific output of the theatre publicist and would-be historian Walter Macqueen-Pope. Yet even by the time Macqueen-Pope was publishing his later volumes in the 1950s, the rise of academic theatre scholarship was questioning such anecdotally based and unverified accounts of the theatre and its past. Today, we can look at Macqueen-Pope, and at the period immediately before the First World War which was so often the focus of his attention, not so much for evidence of flawed scholarship as for his revealing attitude towards his subject and its social context. For anecdotage and nostalgia have inevitably to be taken into account in any historical approach to so ephemeral an art as the theatre, and, as the authors here conclude, while Macqueen-Pope may not tell us the whole truth about his many subjects, such a ‘wistful remembrancer’ remains significant to any investigation of a theatrical past ‘that must always be a melting pot of imperfect recognitions and unattainable desires’. Jim Davis is Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of the School of Theatre, Film and Dance at the University of New South Wales. victor Emelijanow is Professor of Drama and Head of the Department of Drama at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both have written extensively on nineteenth-century British theatre and are the joint authors of Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing 1840–1880, which has just been published by the University of lowa Press.


1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
David Neilson ◽  
Mukunda P Das

This volume contains lectures given at the second of the series of international Gordon Godfrey workshops. These workshops have been held annually since 1991 at the University of New South Wales, each covering a novel research area in condensed matter physics that is of topical interest. They are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He bequeathed his estate for the promotion and teaching of theoretical physics within the university.


2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. iv
Author(s):  
Stephen Pyne

This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry comprises 12 papers from some of the speakers at the 21st International Congress for Heterocyclic Chemistry, which was held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from 15-20 July 2007. The topics of these papers cover some of the major themes of the conference, including natural products synthesis (as highlighted by the presentation of K. C. Nicolaou during his ISHC Senior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry lecture on the synthesis of complex natural products and further demonstrated by contributions by Profs. Banwell, Bates, Sodeoka, Naito, Vogel, and Pyne); new methods for the synthesis of heterocycles based on metal-catalyzed reactions (Profs. Ma and Mase); and new catalysts for asymmetric synthesis based on chiral heterocyclic ligands (Prof. Nishiyama). Papers on the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds using the borono-Mannich reaction (Prof. Hutton) and green chemistry methods (Prof. Varma) are also included.I would like to thank all contributors for their timely efforts and the editorial staff for their help.Stephen PyneConference Editor


Author(s):  
Liberato Cardellini

Emeritus Professor John Sweller is presently a professor of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. After receiving the Bachelor’s degree in 1969 at the University of Adelaide, he completed a PhD degree at the same university in 1972.The name of John Sweller is associated with the cognitive load theory, an instructional theory based on our knowledge of human cognitive architecture. The theory is a contributor to both research and debate on issues associated with human cognition, its links to evolution by natural selection, and the instructional design consequences that follow.


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