Reflected, Refracted, Re-Voiced The Ivory Tower Re-Constructed Dr Janice K. Jones (jonesja@usq.edu.au) with Conference Attendees “Opening Up the Ivory Tower” Kaleidoscope Conference 29 – 30 May, 2014 Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Multiple Ways of Seeing and Knowing This presentation will take shape in the moment as participants create a critical and 'Just in Time' bricolage of troubling issues, images, and debates captured during their experience of the 2 day conference. Reversing the Kaleidoscope, we will re-present, trouble and test emerging concepts of the 'Ivory Tower' in a communal re-construction and celebration of our many ways of seeing and knowing.

Fragments, Presented, Refracted A Word Cloud – Captured from Janice’s notes during the two day conference. Importantly – each researcher’s word cloud will be subtly different, shaped by their personal and professional interests and framed by their disciplinary focus.

Workshop: The first 30 minutes Reflect on the 2 days: What is the ‘Ivory tower’? What are the important visions and ideas for you emerging from this 2 days? Join a group focusing upon ONE of the following themes: The Tower? Strengthening, Troubling, and Transforming research in education. Or DRIFT! On the big sheet – have ONE person distilling key ideas, issues, themes, questions, images… CAPTURE A DIGITAL IMAGE of the big sheet AND EMAIL IT TO: jonesja@usq.edu.au by: 4.30 Share/discuss the visual maps created by groups. Connections? Gaps? Unknowns? Review the PPT and images a week later in your workplace/academic context.

The Ivory Tower?

OUR RESEARCH TOWER

TRANSFORMING

Tweets from our peers… By and large, research is done by groups. The PhD does not equip people well for this team activity and for writing together. @SelenaYuan: I prefer the idea of "engaging" over "opening up", and what if the ivory tower is invented?imaginary? #kc2014 @janicekjones @SelenaYuan: Does our conception of ivory tower creates and reinforces the notion of 'ivory tower'? #kc2014 @janicekjones @ScottAnnett1: Frances teaching us about musical progression skills for under7s ... I fear too late for me ... http://t.co/xbzXTGBCoe @JGilevskaja: Peace, educator & the UN: Kevin locks the stage! #kc2014 http://t.co/4nHX1MAkq4 @FilmLiteracyPhD: Linking the history curriculum with music: connected to my own work of using film cross curricular. Interesting talk by Sarah Carney #kc2014 @SelenaYuan: @FilmLiteracyPhD @kc2014team thanks for capturing this photo, seems that I was singing haha Ways of writing: Degrees of collaboration and individuality. One author writes the entire document then the others edit and adjust. Authors take sections – and the challenge of presenting a unified argument and voice. Both authors work together on the entire document. Avoiding ‘one person doing all the work’. Agreements about whose name goes first. What ‘counts as work’. Books take a long time. They can be lonely places. It can be productive to work together but important to find the right person.

…Implications? Discussion Thank you for co-constructing a visual narrative of our 2 day journey!