Rachel Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 796974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3594-1110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Investigating digital poverty and the new forms of agency and advocacy needed in Initial Teacher Education
Using Judith Butler’s theory of performative subjection, this paper explores the issue of digital poverty in Initial Teacher Education and the need for new forms of agency and advocacy to address it. The concept of digital agency (DA) and educational data advocacy (EDA) are discussed as possible ameliorating concepts for digital poverty and the increasing digital divide in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). In this theoretical paper, the authors em…
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
Educational data advocates: Emerging forms of teacher agency in postdigital classrooms
Commercial platforms are being increasingly used in classrooms as teaching and learning tools. Beyond shifts in practice to accommodate this, the teacher becomes a tool of the platform – generating and collecting data for commercial entities. It is time to move from commercial platforms working through teachers to influence education, towards working with teachers in the ethical use of educational data. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Postdigital Possibilities and Impossibilities Behind the Screen: Visual Arts Educators in Conversation about Online Learning and Real-world Experiences
Through an ethnomethodological and dialogical encounter with Australian classrooms in the lived experience of two visual art ( va ) educators, the authors seek to learn how working between online and studio learning approaches shaped teacher perceptions of student learning during the outbreak of covid -19 in 2020 and 2021. The research has two phases. Phase 1 sees the two va educators create learning narratives. These narratives, reported in summ…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Philosophy of education in a new key: Exploring new ways of teaching and doing ethics in education in the 21st century
Within the rough ground that is the field of education there is a complex web of ethical obligations: to prepare our students for their future work; to be ethical as educators in our conduct and teaching; to the ethical principles embedded in the contexts in which we work; and given the Southern context of this work, the ethical obligations we have to this land and its First Peoples. We put out a call to colleagues whose work has been concerned w…
Learning impacts reported by students living with learning challenges/disability
Internationally, students with disabilities (SWD) are increasing in numbers in higher education institutions. SWD are legally required to be supported by their institutions to ensure equity of access and outcome. Most research around SWD is focused on the provision of support and accommodation to achieve equitable access. Recent research has shown that the majority of students who would qualify as ‘disabled’ choose not to disclose and receive no …
Through growth to achievement: Examining edtech as a solution to Australia’s declining educational achievement
In many educational jurisdictions, school systems are striving to demonstrate constant improvement. In Australia, the latest iteration of this concern is represented by the recent federal government report, Through growth to achievement. The report offers a number of recommendations to address declining achievement in Australian schooling. Pulling together scholarship on policy and educational technology I provide an analysis of key aspects of th…
Collective writing: Introspective reflections on current experience
Sonja Arndt, Michael Peters, Marek Tesar Introspection is a key concept in epistemology, since introspective knowledge is often thought to be particularly secure, maybe even immune to skeptical doubt. Introspective knowledge is also often held to be more immediate or direct than sensory knowledge. Both of these putative features of introspection have been cited in support of the idea that introspective knowledge can serve as a ground or foundatio…
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
The whole world’s watching really’: Parental and educator perspectives on managing children’s digital lives
Teachers are under increased pressure to teach children digital skills, and parents are having to manage children’s online presence as well as their offline lives. Much of the discussion surrounding the issue of children’s digital footprints highlights the potential present and future risks that children could be exposed to. While parents and teachers are expected to educate and protect children online, little is known about what parents and educ…
Situated cases of ethical tensions when working with children and young people in educational contexts
[Extract] This introductory commentary on the special issue ‘Contemporary ethical tensions: Situated cases of ethical tensions when working with children and young people in educational contexts’ focuses on elaborating educational ethics as an emerging disciplinary area within the field of education and teacher education. In this context, we are using the term ‘educational ethics’ as a term to refer to a specialist area of applied ethics encompas…
Feminist pedagogies in a time of backlash
Gender equity in Australian schooling is no longer the policy focus that it once was. Within the contemporary secondary schooling system, teachers can find it challenging to enact feminist pedagogies. Using a narrative approach, we explore the experiences of two secondary teachers in Queensland. These teachers articulate the realities of using feminist pedagogies in a time dominated by reactionary politics and market-based schooling. Their storie…
University student perspectives on institutional non-disclosure of disability and learning challenges: Reasons for staying invisible
Students with disabilities (SWD) in Australian higher education need to disclose to their institution to access a range of ‘reasonable adjustments’ to support their learning. Nationally, 5.8% of the university population disclose their disability to their institution. It is suspected that there is a much larger population of students who choose non-disclosure, and therefore decide not to access support. Very little is known about the reasons for …
The record keeper
Germaine Greer is an exceptional record keeper. Since the 1950s, Greer has retained and protected papers relating to her extraordinary public and private lives and her diligence has resulted in the Germaine Greer Archive, a large, world-class collection now held by the University of Melbourne Archives. As curator of the archive, I am now the record keeper. This article explains two connections—one personal and the other institutional—that are sha…
Bread and Breath: Two Reflections on the Ethics of (Doing) History
Books
Books
Why Gandhi Doesn't Belong at Wellington Railway Station
Journal Article Why Gandhi Doesn't Belong at Wellington Railway Station Get access Rachel Buchanan Rachel Buchanan La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 44, Issue 4, Summer 2011, Pages 1077–1093, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2011.0045 Published: 01 July 2011
Recycling Doctoral Waste
This article contributes to the ‘archival turn’ in the worlds of academia and the arts, by exploring the great, latent creative potential of the material and immaterial archives produced by doing a PhD thesis in history. While much of the material archive is already productive — it contains the documentary evidence that proves whatever the researcher is arguing — even more of it is often seen as unproductive, a (waste) paper trail leading to vari…
Decolonizing the Archives: The Work of New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal
If history is to be decolonized, then the archives it is made from must be too. This article uses the work of the Waitangi Tribunal in Aotearoa New Zealand to explore how this might be possible. The tribunal is a permanent commission of inquiry that investigates contemporary and historical breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Tribunal hearings are rich sites of public history-making. A hearing involves the research and production of 'traditio…
Settling debts
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
University student perspectives on institutional non-disclosure of disability and learning challenges: Reasons for staying invisible
Students with disabilities (SWD) in Australian higher education need to disclose to their institution to access a range of ‘reasonable adjustments’ to support their learning. Nationally, 5.8% of the university population disclose their disability to their institution. It is suspected that there is a much larger population of students who choose non-disclosure, and therefore decide not to access support. Very little is known about the reasons for …
Feminist pedagogies in a time of backlash
Gender equity in Australian schooling is no longer the policy focus that it once was. Within the contemporary secondary schooling system, teachers can find it challenging to enact feminist pedagogies. Using a narrative approach, we explore the experiences of two secondary teachers in Queensland. These teachers articulate the realities of using feminist pedagogies in a time dominated by reactionary politics and market-based schooling. Their storie…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Exploring new ways of teaching and doing ethics in education in the 21st century
Within the rough ground that is the field of education there is a complex web of ethical obligations: to prepare our students for their future work; to be ethical as educators in our conduct and teaching; to the ethical principles embedded in the contexts in which we work; and given the Southern context of this work, the ethical obligations we have to this land and its First Peoples. We put out a call to colleagues whose work has been concerned w…
The whole world’s watching really’: Parental and educator perspectives on managing children’s digital lives
Teachers are under increased pressure to teach children digital skills, and parents are having to manage children’s online presence as well as their offline lives. Much of the discussion surrounding the issue of children’s digital footprints highlights the potential present and future risks that children could be exposed to. While parents and teachers are expected to educate and protect children online, little is known about what parents and educ…
The record keeper
Germaine Greer is an exceptional record keeper. Since the 1950s, Greer has retained and protected papers relating to her extraordinary public and private lives and her diligence has resulted in the Germaine Greer Archive, a large, world-class collection now held by the University of Melbourne Archives. As curator of the archive, I am now the record keeper. This article explains two connections—one personal and the other institutional—that are sha…
Learning impacts reported by students living with learning challenges/disability
Internationally, students with disabilities (SWD) are increasing in numbers in higher education institutions. SWD are legally required to be supported by their institutions to ensure equity of access and outcome. Most research around SWD is focused on the provision of support and accommodation to achieve equitable access. Recent research has shown that the majority of students who would qualify as ‘disabled’ choose not to disclose and receive no …
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Decolonizing the Archives: The Work of New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal
If history is to be decolonized, then the archives it is made from must be too. This article uses the work of the Waitangi Tribunal in Aotearoa New Zealand to explore how this might be possible. The tribunal is a permanent commission of inquiry that investigates contemporary and historical breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Tribunal hearings are rich sites of public history-making. A hearing involves the research and production of 'traditio…
The Dementia Wing of History
In this article the author draws on her family history to explore notions of Maori and Pakeha identity in New Zealand, in the context of forgetting and remembering
The home front: Hostess, housewife and home in Olympic Melbourne, 1956
(2002). The home front: Hostess, housewife and home in Olympic Melbourne, 1956. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 201-209
Settling debts
Decolonizing the Archives: The Work of New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal
If history is to be decolonized, then the archives it is made from must be too. This article uses the work of the Waitangi Tribunal in Aotearoa New Zealand to explore how this might be possible. The tribunal is a permanent commission of inquiry that investigates contemporary and historical breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Tribunal hearings are rich sites of public history-making. A hearing involves the research and production of 'traditio…
Recycling Doctoral Waste
This article contributes to the ‘archival turn’ in the worlds of academia and the arts, by exploring the great, latent creative potential of the material and immaterial archives produced by doing a PhD thesis in history. While much of the material archive is already productive — it contains the documentary evidence that proves whatever the researcher is arguing — even more of it is often seen as unproductive, a (waste) paper trail leading to vari…
Why Gandhi Doesn't Belong at Wellington Railway Station
Journal Article Why Gandhi Doesn't Belong at Wellington Railway Station Get access Rachel Buchanan Rachel Buchanan La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 44, Issue 4, Summer 2011, Pages 1077–1093, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2011.0045 Published: 01 July 2011
Bread and Breath: Two Reflections on the Ethics of (Doing) History
Books
Books
The record keeper
Germaine Greer is an exceptional record keeper. Since the 1950s, Greer has retained and protected papers relating to her extraordinary public and private lives and her diligence has resulted in the Germaine Greer Archive, a large, world-class collection now held by the University of Melbourne Archives. As curator of the archive, I am now the record keeper. This article explains two connections—one personal and the other institutional—that are sha…
University student perspectives on institutional non-disclosure of disability and learning challenges: Reasons for staying invisible
Students with disabilities (SWD) in Australian higher education need to disclose to their institution to access a range of ‘reasonable adjustments’ to support their learning. Nationally, 5.8% of the university population disclose their disability to their institution. It is suspected that there is a much larger population of students who choose non-disclosure, and therefore decide not to access support. Very little is known about the reasons for …
The whole world’s watching really’: Parental and educator perspectives on managing children’s digital lives
Teachers are under increased pressure to teach children digital skills, and parents are having to manage children’s online presence as well as their offline lives. Much of the discussion surrounding the issue of children’s digital footprints highlights the potential present and future risks that children could be exposed to. While parents and teachers are expected to educate and protect children online, little is known about what parents and educ…
Situated cases of ethical tensions when working with children and young people in educational contexts
[Extract] This introductory commentary on the special issue ‘Contemporary ethical tensions: Situated cases of ethical tensions when working with children and young people in educational contexts’ focuses on elaborating educational ethics as an emerging disciplinary area within the field of education and teacher education. In this context, we are using the term ‘educational ethics’ as a term to refer to a specialist area of applied ethics encompas…
Feminist pedagogies in a time of backlash
Gender equity in Australian schooling is no longer the policy focus that it once was. Within the contemporary secondary schooling system, teachers can find it challenging to enact feminist pedagogies. Using a narrative approach, we explore the experiences of two secondary teachers in Queensland. These teachers articulate the realities of using feminist pedagogies in a time dominated by reactionary politics and market-based schooling. Their storie…
Through growth to achievement: Examining edtech as a solution to Australia’s declining educational achievement
In many educational jurisdictions, school systems are striving to demonstrate constant improvement. In Australia, the latest iteration of this concern is represented by the recent federal government report, Through growth to achievement. The report offers a number of recommendations to address declining achievement in Australian schooling. Pulling together scholarship on policy and educational technology I provide an analysis of key aspects of th…
Collective writing: Introspective reflections on current experience
Sonja Arndt, Michael Peters, Marek Tesar Introspection is a key concept in epistemology, since introspective knowledge is often thought to be particularly secure, maybe even immune to skeptical doubt. Introspective knowledge is also often held to be more immediate or direct than sensory knowledge. Both of these putative features of introspection have been cited in support of the idea that introspective knowledge can serve as a ground or foundatio…
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Philosophy of education in a new key: Exploring new ways of teaching and doing ethics in education in the 21st century
Within the rough ground that is the field of education there is a complex web of ethical obligations: to prepare our students for their future work; to be ethical as educators in our conduct and teaching; to the ethical principles embedded in the contexts in which we work; and given the Southern context of this work, the ethical obligations we have to this land and its First Peoples. We put out a call to colleagues whose work has been concerned w…
Learning impacts reported by students living with learning challenges/disability
Internationally, students with disabilities (SWD) are increasing in numbers in higher education institutions. SWD are legally required to be supported by their institutions to ensure equity of access and outcome. Most research around SWD is focused on the provision of support and accommodation to achieve equitable access. Recent research has shown that the majority of students who would qualify as ‘disabled’ choose not to disclose and receive no …
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Postdigital Possibilities and Impossibilities Behind the Screen: Visual Arts Educators in Conversation about Online Learning and Real-world Experiences
Through an ethnomethodological and dialogical encounter with Australian classrooms in the lived experience of two visual art ( va ) educators, the authors seek to learn how working between online and studio learning approaches shaped teacher perceptions of student learning during the outbreak of covid -19 in 2020 and 2021. The research has two phases. Phase 1 sees the two va educators create learning narratives. These narratives, reported in summ…
Educational data advocates: Emerging forms of teacher agency in postdigital classrooms
Commercial platforms are being increasingly used in classrooms as teaching and learning tools. Beyond shifts in practice to accommodate this, the teacher becomes a tool of the platform – generating and collecting data for commercial entities. It is time to move from commercial platforms working through teachers to influence education, towards working with teachers in the ethical use of educational data. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First…
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