Coming to Spotwood, Melbourne, on Sunday April 15, 2018…
The Slow Fish Festival!
Pop Up School Video
If you would like to find out more about our Pop Up School project, this short documentary about our 2016 Pop Up School in Footscray gives a good overview of the project and it’s aims.
Since then we have held a Pop Up School in Werribee in 2017, with more to come in 2018….
Contact us if you would like to become involved or learn more!
Towards a Footscray Curriculum
The Public Pedagogies Institute has published a new book based on the research undertaken as part of the Footscray Pop Up School.
The publication is available for free download and will be of interest to educators, researchers, as well as the local community. Print copies will be made available upon request.
Towards a Footscray Curriculum
Karen Charman, Mary Dixon, Robyn Bellingham,
Mathew Thomas, Jayson Cooper
Public Pedagogies Institute, 2017
“The knowledge of a community often goes unrecognized.”
Call for papers: Special issue for Locale
Call for Papers
Special issue for Locale: The Australasian-Pacific Journal of Regional Food Studies
Food Pedagogies and the Senses
Guest Editors:
Rick Flowers, University of Technology Sydney and
Elaine Swan, University of Sussex
In this call, we seek papers that offer analyses of the sensory politics of food pedagogies. Papers should have a local, national or regional focus on the Pacific Rim across Asia, Oceania, North and South America, which can include intersections with global and diasporic perspectives. By food pedagogies, we refer to attempts by a range of agencies, actors, institutions and media to ‘teach’ about growing, shopping, cooking, eating, and wasting food (Flowers and Swan 2015; Leahy and Pike 2015; Etmanski 2015; Sumner 2013). By teach, we mean various processes of formal, informal and incidental education and learning, inside and beyond the classroom. Examples of formal food pedagogies include cooking courses, health education, nutrition workshops, culinary tours, and permaculture courses; informal food pedagogies encompass museum food exhibitions, TV cooking shows, community gardening projects, food activist campaigns, food industry marketing public health programmes; and incidental food pedagogies cover learning from eating and drinking, at work, at home, in restaurants, and large-scale food events. Thus, food pedagogues can include museum curators, health workers, food tour guides, nutritionists, teachers, food activists, food producers and retailers, celebrity chefs and celebrity farmers. Our definition draws from Australian and American scholars who use pedagogy as an analytic to study cultural and social processes and relations which attempt to modify how we act, feel and think (Luke 1996; Sandlin, O’Malley and Burdick 2011; Watkins, Noble and Driscoll 2015). In essence, ‘culture can and does operate in pedagogical ways’ (Hickey-Moody, Savage and Windle 2010, p. 227). This means examining the pedagogical dimensions of processes such as socialisation, reproduction, interpellation, embodiment and analysing how forms of food subjectivity and food conduct are capacitated, regulated and shaped in gendered, racialised, heternormative and classed ways across public, private and domestic spheres (Watkins et al., 2015; Luke 1996).
PPI Conference 2017
The Public Pedagogies Institute annual conference took place on November 23 – 24, 2017.
Crossing the boundaries of disciplines and institutions, this unique program brought together participants from diverse sectors and fields, unlikely to be found at any other event.
The Keynote Speakers for our 2017 conference were Margaret Wertheim, of the Crochet Coral Reef project, and Liss Gabb of cohealth Arts Generator, which were both engaging and richly rewarding presentations that we felt very privileged to experience.
In addition to our Keynote Speakers, Panelists and Break Out Discussion Groups each morning, the two day program included a fantastic range of presentations, workshops, publication launches and other events each afternoon.
Both the presentations and workshops provided the opportunity to discover and engage with the wide range of research and practice taking place in the community in the area of public pedagogies.
If you are interested in participating in our 2018 conference please contact us via our contact page.
The 2018 conference will take place on November 22 – 23, in Footscray, Melbourne.
For those who missed the 2017 conference the Abstracts are still available to view online.
Images below from the 2017 conference:
Conference Abstracts
The full Conference Program with Abstracts for Turning Learning Upside Down: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom 2017 is available to view online. The program overview with schedule is also available to view here.
In addition to our Keynote Speakers, Panelists and Discussion Groups each morning, the two day program includes a fantastic range of presentations, workshops, and events each afternoon.
Over the lunch break, which is fully catered in our on campus venue, we will also have related publication launches each day.
Crossing the boundaries of disciplines and institutions, this is a unique program of events that brings together participants from a diverse range of sectors and fields which you are unlikely to find at any other event.
Journal Launch
The Institute launched the new issue of the Journal of Public Pedagogies on Thursday November 23 at the conclusion of the first day of our conference.
The new issue features articles by Belinda MacGill, Yayan Rahayani, John G. Fox, Debbie Qadri, Raffaele Rufo, Karen Charman , Mary Dixon, Robin Bellingham, Matthew Thomas, Jayson Cooper and Greg Giannis.
The range of articles in the issue again captures the diverse work that is taking place today in the area of public pedagogies.
One Night in Footscray
When the Public Pedagogies Institute conference is over on Friday you can head straight on out for One Night in Footscray…
Discover the art spaces, galleries, venues and hidden in-between spaces within the local area. Exhibitions, live music, performance and participatory art installations collide for one night in a free program that has something for people of all ages.
One Night in Footscray highlights the work of local artists, makers, emerging practitioners and students, to create new opportunities to encounter art in public spaces and the ways in which people experience and interpret Footscray, its people and places.
This program is a Footscray University Town initiative supported by Victoria University and Maribyrnong City Council.
Friday 24 November, 5PM ’til late
Check out the program at the link below:
Putting Theory to Work
Recently a delegation from Public Pedagogies Institute attended the Manchester Metropolitan University’s 5th International Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work (10th July – 14th July 2017). This biannual conference enables a unique opportunity for researchers from all over the world and disciplines to meet, learn and talk about theory as it relates to the work we do as researchers.
Throughout the event we engaged with various ways to engage and interact with theory. With a mix of keynote presentations, smaller group presentations and artistic responses to provocations that promoted the folding in of theory into creative output. These daily experiences promoted socially constructed art works that fold in and through each other; through discourse, arts methods and theoretical statements that ask ‘what happens when we think theoretical concepts in intra-action with materials and art-based propositions?’
A range of theoretical discussions where engaged with through the variety of forums that were pedagogically rich democratic and polyphonic. Many voices from across the globe that came together to teach and learn found in the heart of Manchester, UK.
Mary Dixon, Karen Charman, Matthew Thomas and Jayson Cooper attended on behalf of the Public Pedagogies Institute where they shared a presentation that wove their voices and experiences together to create a tapestry of pedagogical discussions from being involved in the Public Pedagogies Institute’s 2016 Footscray Pop Up School. They each gave a 20 minute presentation that together sang the polyphonic nature of the Pop Up school. Speaking a new educational experience (a growing theoretical understanding of education consciousness) each of the presentations expressed the theoretical as it was put into practice through this one day event.
Exploring the plural pedagogical aims of local communities and the enrichments that come from such dialogue, the PPI presentation promoted wide discussion on public pedagogy, Australian identity and community expression.
Werribee Pop Up School
Recently the Public Pedagogies Institute held a Pop Up School in Station Place Werribee on September 1, 2017. This event showcased the breadth of knowledge in the Werribee Community. The Institute was invited to curate this event as the key activity to launch the annual Wyndham Learning Festival.
Like its predecessor the Footscray Pop Up School, the Werribee project has also consisted of interviews with members of the Werribee community around the theme of significant knowledge in Werribee. These interviews will continue into the new year and will be published as ‘Toward a Werribee Curriculum.’
Discussion is now under way for a similar project in Point Cook in 2018. If you are interested in a Pop Up School in your suburb or town please contact the Public Pedagogies Institute.
