An online seminar by Professor Tim Corcoran, Deakin University Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 12 March 2024
- Venue:
- Online
Event details
Educational psychology is a peculiar endeavour. For a field of inquiry dedicated to understanding living phenomena, the sub-discipline spends too much time trying to separate and sanitise life forms. For example, for educators pursuing equitable and inclusive practice, concerns with many educational psychology theory~practice traditions are easily raised (e.g., ableism).
This seminar invites those yet to be dissuaded to consider two alternate theoretical options. The first, ecologics, is offered as a means to appreciating the connectedness of living events. Five prospective conditions necessary for the employment of ecologics are surveyed. Together, these conditions support a commitment to psychosocial justice. If equity, diversity and inclusion are central to educational theory~practice, then psychological and social matters must be addressed in every first encounter as a unified relationality. There, concerns attend to how psychology comes to life, and not primarily with what psychology is said to be.
Speaker Information
Tim Corcoran initially went to university to become a History and English teacher. After a five-year divergence playing rock ‘n roll, he returned to tertiary studies and qualified as a psychologist. He practiced for ten years, first as an adult prison psychologist and then as a psychologist in government P-12 schools. During that decade, he completed his doctoral research examining ways communities talk about the people they intend to exclude. Tim’s current role is Associate Professor (Inclusive Education), School of Education, Deakin University. He lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri Country.