Education

Staff profile

Dr Mike Brown

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Education - Melbourne (Bundoora)

Education 1, Melbourne (Bundoora)

T: +61 3 9479 2345
F: +61 0 9479 3070
E: m.brown@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

Dip Tech Teach (Hawthorn), BEd (Hawthorn), Grad Dip Ed Admin (Hawthorn), MEd (Deakin), PhD (Monash)

Membership of professional Associations

ALA; AVETRA; AARE; ACSA; ATEA.

Area of study

Adult education

Brief Profile

Mike is the Convenor of Adult, Vocational and Technology Education programs within the Faculty of Education (Bundoora). He is also the support person for International Students working within the Faculty of Education programs at Bundoora. Mike began his teaching career as a Technology teacher in a secondary school before moving into the TAFE sector as a trade teacher. He worked on a number of statewide and national TAFE curriculum projects. For the past twenty years, Mike has designed, developed and taught in many teacher/trainer undergraduate and postgraduate programs developing professionals for Adult, Professional and Vocational Education. In terms of his most recent teaching and research within the schools sector, he has concentrated on the areas of Design, Creativity and Technology within secondary schools, along with VET in schools, VCE Technology studies and VCAL. In 2011, Mike was awarded The Dean's Award for the Faculty of Education as part of the Latrobe University Excellence in Research Awards.

Current research projects include: ·

Gen Green 3 Survey: Australian apprentices and trainees' experience of skills for sustainability in 2012 (Funded by the Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability - 2012)

Looking for the learning dimension within Bushfire recovery (Funded by the Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability - 2012)

Sustainability, VET and the transition to a low carbon economy (Funded by the Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability - 2011)

Innovation and excellence in design pedagogies within Victorian senior secondary schools

Teaching over the other side of the school . . . .

Teaching in VET in schools programs ·

Teaching in VCAL programs ·

Teaching in Technology studies programs ·

History of ‘hands on’ learning

Trade pedagogy

Multi-modal literacies, pedagogy and learning

Teaching Units

EDU4MTT - Methods of Teaching Technology

EDU4UL - Understanding Learning (Dip Ed Secondary)

EDU4CCE - Changing Contexts (Dip Ed Secondary)

EDU4INT - Integrated Teaching (Dip Ed Secondary)

EDU5CDD - Curriculum Design and Development

EDU5CDI - Curriculum Design and Implementation

EDU4TDC - Technology and Design in Context

Consulting

The professional development and learning of teachers and trainers

Recent Publications

Brown M, Sack F & Rodd C (currently under review) Student voice in skills for sustainability: a missing component from the demand side of Australian Vocational education and training

Brown M (currently under review) The development of green skills through the local TAFE Institute as a potential pathway to regional development

Brown M & Sack F (2012) What do VET students and graduates think about ‘skills for sustainability’?, paper presented at 2012 NCVER No Frills Conference, Adelaide July.

Brown, M (2012a) Developing green skills through a regional TAFE Institute, paper presented at the 15th AVETRA Conference, Canberra, April 13th & 14th; access through http://avetra.org.au/annual-conference/conference-2012-papers

Brown M (2011) Teaching VET in Victorian secondary schools, AVETRA Conference, Melbourne. http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/49.00.pdf

Brown M & Cartledge D (2011) Tracking the key policies on sustainability, VET and the transition to a low carbon economy, AVETRA Conference, Melbourne. http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/48.00.pdf

Brown M, Withers E, Down C, Figgis J & McManus J., (2011), Pedagogical practices across the Tertiary sector: summarising the literature on the pedagogical support for students moving from VET into Universities, AVETRA Conference, Melbourne. http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/88.00.pdf

Brown M (2010) Developing Literate practices in Design and Technology Education, in Pullen D l, Baguley M, & Gitsaki C (Ed) Technoliteracy, Discourse and Social Practice: Frameworks and Applications in the Digital Age, Brooklyn: IG Publishing. (ISBN 978-1-60566-842-0)

Brown M (2010) Examining Historical Narratives Around ‘Hands On’ Learning and Industrial Education, AVETRA Conference Proceedings, Gold Coast, April 7th – 9th. http://avetra.org.au/publications/conference-archives/conference-archives-2010/2010-papers (ISBN: 978-0-9805275-2-0).

Smyth J & Brown M (2010) The profound effect and reach of Joe Kincheloe to the Antipodes: his work, his ideas and his influence as a person, in Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies 10 (5) pp 404 – 405.

Brown M (2010) Teaching teachers about VET in schools (VETiS) programs, in VOCAL: the Australian Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools, Vol 8 pp 52-58.

Brown M (2010) Being STEM-like: analysing some 'STEM-Like' programs in secondary schools across Victoria. Conference Proceedings of the International Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Research Conference, Brisbane QUT November 27 – 28. http://stem.ed.qut.edu.au/index.php/conference-proceedings.html

Brown M (2010) Pedagogical content knowledge for teaching Systems Engineering in Victorian secondary schools, Conference Proceedings of the International Technology Education Research Conference (TERC) Conference, Gold Coast December 8 – 11.

Brown M & Schulz C (2009) Learning to be drier: a case study of adult and community learning, in the Australian Riverland in Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol 49 (3) pp.497–519.

Golding B, Brown M Foley A, Smith E, Campbell C Schulz C, Angwin J & Grace L (2009) Wicked Learning: reflections on Learning to be drier, in Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol 49 (3) pp.544-566.

Golding B, Brown M, & Foley A (2009) Informal learning: a discussion around defining and researching its breadth and importance, in the Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Vol 49 (1) pp.34-56.

Brown M (2008) VETiS: how it works in Victoria, in VOCAL: The Australian Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools, Vol 7, 2008-2009. pp.19-31.

Clayton B., Fisher T., Harris R., Bateman A. & Brown M. (2008) A study in difference: Structures and cultures in Australian Registered Training Organisations. Adelaide: NCVER

Golding B, Kimberley H, Foley A, & Brown M (2008) Houses and sheds: an exploration of the genesis and growth of neighbourhood houses and men’s sheds in community settings in Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Vol 48 (2) pp. 237–262.

Brown M & Sutton D (2008) Serving multiple masters: reviewing the role and recognition of VET within Victorian senior secondary school certificates. AVETRA Conference Adelaide 3-4 April 2008.

Foley A, Golding B & Brown M (2008) Let the men speak, AVETRA Conference, Adelaide, April 3-4

Golding B, Foley A & Brown M (2008), Shedding School Early: Insights from School & Community Shed Collaboration in Australia, AVETRA Conference, Adelaide, April 3-4

Brown M, Golding B & Foley A (2008), A long and winding road: Autonomous men’s learning through participation in community sheds across Australia, 38th SCUTREA International Conference July 3– 5, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Brown M (2008) Two Narratives Within Design And Technology Education In Secondary Schools Across Victoria, published in Middleton H & Pavlova M (ed) Exploring technology education : solutions to issues in a globalised world, Proceedings of the 5th Biennial International Conference on Technology Education Research, Surfers Paradise, 27-29 November.

Golding B, Brown M, & Foley A (2008) Informal learning: A discussion around defining and researching its breadth and importance, Adult Learning Australia Conference Perth October-November.

Golding B, Brown M, Foley A, Harvey J & Gleeson L. (2007). Men’s sheds in community contexts: older men’s learning spaces and programs in Australia. Adelaide: NCVER

Golding B., Foley A., & Brown M. (2007) The international potential for men's shed-based learning in Journal of Continuing Liberal Adult Education (34) pp 9- 13

Anderson D. Brown M. & Rushbrook P. (2004) VET: a critical overview and introduction in Foley G. The Learning Dimension: understanding adult education and learning. Allen & Unwin: Sydney.

Brown M., (2004). Peoples’ power against the empire: a curriculum framework for work-related learning. In Kell P, Shore S, & Singh M. Adult education in the 21st century. Peter Lang.

Research projects