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This Program is concerned with cultural transformations within a range of theoretical, linguistic,  educational, and societal contexts. Under the sign of a commitment to sustainable, empowering social change, the Program draws on diverse disciplines comprising: languages learning; technology-mediated language learning and communication learning; literacies education; cultural and literary studies; sociology of education; and comparative educational studies. It aims to chart new directions for innovative research with respect to culturally and linguistically diverse contexts.
Key research domains of the Program are:
- Languages and Literacies: investigation of the processes involved in and influences impacting on language teaching and the learning of first and additional languages and literacies by both child and adult learners in diverse intercultural contexts, including the development of electronic literacies and new media in the learning of languages.
- Texts : analysis of the different ways people read , receive, interpret, and produce cultural texts (e.g. literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, theatre, philosophy, electronic media) is a key element of research across cultural studies and critical theory.
- Diversity : investigation of issues concerning social, cultural and linguistic diversity in Australian society and its wider global context, and the implications for education, internationalisation, and social democracy. In particular, the focus is on understanding the processes involved in challenging existing educational and social inequalities, and in informing policies and practices which impact on our schools and the wider community.
- Globalisation : analysis of global complexity, including intensified global-local relations and global flows of ideas, images, codes across increasingly porous territorial boundaries. Implications of new theorisations of global complexity on disciplinary knowledge, as well educational policy, practices and cultural identities and practices.
- Social Change : investigation of participatory, inquiry-based action with a view to the positive transformation of social practices and conditions in education, training, and the wider communities.
For more details about the program, its membership and activities please visit the Cultural Transformations research program website.
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