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About Alice Garner
I am a historian, teacher and performer with a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. I have published three books: A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders and the Transformation of a French fishing town, 1823-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2005), a memoir of my undergraduate years (The Student Chronicles, Melbourne University Press, 2006) and a co-authored history of the Australian-American Fulbright program (Manchester University Press, 2019). I'm currently part of an interdisciplinary team researching the history of trade union education in Australia. I have acted professionally since I was a child (on all media, including radio), am a practised oral historian (with interviews in the National Library of Australia's collection) and am currently editing a series of audio narratives drawing on interviews recorded for the trade union project. I have set up a home studio for music and voice work, and see contributing to the New Books podcast(s) as a great opportunity to bring together my various interests and skills in the interests of scholarly community-building.Alice Garner is a historian, teacher and performer with a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Alice:
October 13, 2022
Hover Less, Teach More
What does it take to create a classroom environment in which students take the initiative in their learning and teachers can let go of the 'exhaustive…
August 9, 2022
Teaching Through the Archives
Archives are much more than silent repositories of historical material. They are rich sites for teaching and learning, for collaboration and for creat…
June 3, 2022
Movement Matters
In Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning (MIT, 2022), Sheila L. Macrine (Professor in Cognitive Science, UMass Dartmo…
March 21, 2022
Waiting for Gonski
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effect…
February 16, 2022
The Homeschool Choice
Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled, within an i…
December 17, 2021
Scripting the Moves
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school. In…
October 22, 2021
Surviving Emotional Work for Teachers
Jean Hopman’s book Surviving Emotional Work for Teachers: Improving Wellbeing and Professional Learning Through Reflexive Practice (Routledge, 2020), …