Seminars & Events
2008
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13 October: Language and Literacy Colloquium, Pedagogy in paint: Probity, governance and teaching an illiterate population, Professor Joe Lo Bianco
Date: Monday 13 October, from 5.00 p.m.
Presenters: Professor Joe Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne
Venue: Frank Tate Room, Level 2, Alice Hoy Building
Topic: Pedagogy in paint: Probity, governance and teaching an illiterate population
Between 1338 and 1340 Ambrogio Lorenzetti stopped painting beatific madonnas and babies destined to change the world and turned his attention to political philosophy, and not just 'political philosophy' but a training manual in political philosophy. Commissioned by the rulers of Siena, an independent republic, he produced an astonishingly sophisticated rendition of abstract reasoning about governance. Like many Italian ‘communes’ during the early modern period a commercial revolution was sweeping Siena, one that would fuel Renaissance innovations and experimentation in city government, and which produced a spike in thinking about citizenship, public honesty and private wealth, the body politic, the civic space, and independent republicanism. Lorenzetti’s aim appears to be to educate governors in good governance and the governed in good citizenship; mainly to win their consent and participation. Foucault talks of the contemporary liberal state operating through the adoption by citizens of the right kinds of mentality, beginning with a government of the self, which he calls governmentality but in a less liberal state, and a lot earlier, Lorenzetti anticipated these ideas and rendered them in paint.
In this talk I will discuss what I glean of the intentions and methods of the painter-as-teacher in his remarkable fresco cycle, the Allegory of Good and Bad Government, both to celebrate his comprehension of abstract concepts of philosophy and to try to discuss his painterly purpose: education.
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Please register your attendance with Marie-Claire Moloney. for catering purposes.
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13 November ARC Doctoral Confirmation Seminar: Louise Hobbs: Developing and validating a continuum of practice for the infection control professional
Date: Thursday 13 November, 12-2.00 p.m.
Presenters: Louise Hobbs, doctoral candidate, University of Melbourne
Venue: Room G.05, 234 Queensberry Street
Topic: Developing and validating a continuum of practice for the infection control professional
Previous surveys have identified that the infection control professional (ICP) has a nursing background and therefore primarily needs to meet generic nursing competencies (Murphy 1998, Hobbs 2007).
The aim of this study is to validate a set of competencies that were designed to define the scope of practice for the Victorian infection control professional (Hobbs, 2007). This will be achieved by developing a behavioural rating scale based on the competency standards. The behavioural rating scale will form the framework for a self assessment instrument and will be panelled by a group of profession experts. Participants will be invited from state and territory infection control associations and the aged care associations to complete a voluntary, anonymous on-line self assessment survey. Item response modelling procedures will be used to empirically validate that the identified skill thresholds correlate with those identified within the competencies (Bond, 2001).
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