Master of Education with first class honours

January 15, 2009 by Tara Brabazon

Tara's Master of Education (honours) was awarded from the University of New England in 2006. It was composed of four units and a dissertation.

The four modules completed were

Adult Education and Training
Cross Cultural Management
Practicing Research
Tertiary Education: Foundations and Context

The dissertation aligned these modules with literacy theory to explore the impact of Google on education and training. The resultant thesis was titled "The University of Google." Two examiners assessed the thesis: an anonymous internal examiner from UNE and Professor Wayne Martino. It was graded as a First Class Honours, as was the entire degree.

The University awarded Tara the Dean's Prize as an acknowledgement of her results.

A series of refereed articles were derived from this qualification:

“Bachelor of Arts (Google): Graduating to information literacy,” Keynote Paper, IDATER on-line conference on e-learning in Science and Design Technology, Loughborough University, August 2004 (URL: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cd/docs_dandt/research/ed/elearning/L...

“Burning towers and ashen learning: September 11 and the changes to critical literacy,” Australian Library Journal, Vol. 54, No. 7, February 2005, pp. 6-23, http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/55.4/full.text/ALJ11.06.pdf

“Digital Disposal: the iPodification of waste,”Verb, Vol. 3, No. 1, October, 2005, http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/article/view/21/22

“Freedom from choice: who pays for customer service in the knowledge economy?” M/C special issue “Order,” Vol. 7, No. 6, January 2005, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0501/02-brabazon.php

“Socrates in earpods: the ipodification of education,” Fast Capitalism, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/brabazon.htm, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 2006

“The Google Effect,” Libri, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 157-167, http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2006-3pp157-167.pdf

“Thinking pop literacies,” Australian Library Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, November 1, 2006, http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6300237/Thinking-pop-literacies-... and http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/55.4/full.text/ALJ11.06.pdf

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