Closing address speaker - Griffith University

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Professor Parlo Singh

Professor of Education and Dean, Griffith Graduate Research School
Griffith University

Closing Address: Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. Applications in the Australian and Asian Pacific Context.

Parlo's research is in the field of sociology of education, with a particular focus on issues of cultural identity and global cultural flows. Empirically she is interested in educational policy - the politics of policy formation, implementation and traction. She is also interested in educational practices - the politics of knowledge construction and dissemination in schools, training centres, online environments. Some of her recent works include:

Singh, P., Sadovnik, Allan, Semel, Susan (Eds.) (2010). Toolkits, Translation Devices, Conceptual Tyrannies. Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
Singh, P. and McWilliam, E. (Eds.). (2001). Designing Educational Research. Theories, Methods and Practices. Flaxton: PostPressed.
Exley, B. and Singh, P. (2010/accepted, published 2011). Social Studies Disciplinary Knowledge: An Australian Case Study of Tensions between State Curriculum and National Assessment in Disadvantaged School Communities. In Frances Christie and Karl Maton (Eds). Disciplinarity: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives. London: Continuum.
Singh, P. and Harris, J. (2010). Pedagogic Translations: Dominant Pedagogic Modes and Teacher Professional Identity. In Singh, P. Sadovnik, A. and Semel, S. (Eds.). Toolkits, Translation Devices, Conceptual Tyrannies. Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
Singh, P., Sadovnik, A. and Semel, S. (2010). Introduction. In P. Singh, A. Sadovnik and S. Semel (Eds.), Toolkits, Translation Devices and Conceptual Accounts: Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2008). Internationally mobile students in Australian universities: Questions of place, identity, and resources. In Mike Byram and Fred Dirven. Students, staff and academic mobility in higher education, (pp99-113). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Singh, P. and Doherty, C. (2008). Mobile Students in Liquid Modernity: Negotiating the Politics of Transcultural Identities. (Chapter 7, pages 115-130), in Dolby, N. and Rizvi, F. (Eds). Youth Moves. New York: Routledge.