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Enriching outcomes by relaxing conventions and bridging divides in the teaching-research nexus
Proceedings of the 2011 Language and Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium, pp.331-345
Language and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Colloquium, 2011 (Melbourne, Australia, 26-Sep-2011–28-Sep-2011)
Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities Inc.
2011
Abstract
Relaxing conventions and bridging divides within the nexuses of research and teaching, and language and culture, fosters a diversity of enriched, multiple outcomes of mutual benefit with surprising impact. Little of this was planned, instead growing organically out of 'accidental' and symbiotic processes and relationships in the production and reception of a bilingual anthology of poems called 'After my father disappeared/Selepas bapakku hilang (2009)', composed by Indonesian teenager, Fitri Nganthi Wani. These experiences are also informing my current project, which is similar but more ambitious: 'The flower and the wall' is a biography on the poetry and praxis of Wani's famous father, Wiji Thukul, an activist people's poet who was disappeared by the Suharto New Order regime during its collapse in mid-1998. The 2009 symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, aptly entitled 'Taking Stock', recognised the importance of exploring alternative, less rigid, more collaborative ways of conducting academic research and writing, publishing and distribution. Within the spirit of that discussion, this study illustrates some of the conventions and borders blurred in the production and reception of 'After my father disappeared', including: individual versus collaborative authorship, the authoritative scholar versus research informant, between academic writing, youth literature and language learning in schools, and between target language learner and native speaker audiences and sensibilities. Interesting outcomes or spinoffs from this publication also illustrate the innovative fluidity of interaction between production and reception. 'The flower and the wall' project attempts to produce more systematically similar collaborative, fluid processes and outcomes organised around the new media 'Wikispaces'.
Details
- Title
- Enriching outcomes by relaxing conventions and bridging divides in the teaching-research nexus
- Authors
- Richard Curtis (Author) - Charles Darwin University
- Contributors
- John Hajek (Editor)C Nettlebeck (Editor)A Woods (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2011 Language and Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium, pp.331-345
- Conference details
- Language and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Colloquium, 2011 (Melbourne, Australia, 26-Sep-2011–28-Sep-2011)
- Publisher
- Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities Inc.
- Date published
- 2011
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2011 The Authors. This document is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). The details of the relevant licence conditions are available on the Creative Commons website (accessible using the links provided) as is the full legal code for the CC BY 3.0 AU licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448723202621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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