{"id":1222,"date":"2013-03-06T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/2013\/03\/06\/changing-the-world-one-topic-at-a-time-melodie-bat\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T18:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T18:31:52","slug":"changing-the-world-one-topic-at-a-time-melodie-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/changing-the-world-one-topic-at-a-time-melodie-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the world one topic at a time: Melodie Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melodie Bat is a Senior Research Fellow, Remote Education Systems Project for the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation and Charles Darwin University and Lyn Fasoli is \u00a0at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lonely thing, writing curriculum. You sit at your computer and you put your mind into gear and then through some special kind of magic, all of those years of teaching and learning across cultures bubbles out through your fingers and you write. You come up with fantastic activities that link people with content, that increase their skills, that feed their minds and give new hope, new power.<\/p>\n<p>I wish!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more like \u2013 you sit at your computer and panic a little bit inside because there\u2019s no magic formula for this and you\u2019ve just been asked to help change the world a little bit. Great opportunity. Wonderful intention. Good money to top up that PhD scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>And then\u2026you pause. You think about everything you know about education and about action research. You think, \u201cWhy not? This could be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So you develop what you think is this amazing approach to writing curriculum that situates the learner at the center, that embeds everything you know about good Indigenous adult education in Australia, and you write. You write and you write and you re-write and just maybe you change the world a little bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1601\" alt=\"melodie\" src=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie.jpg 252w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-65x37.jpg 65w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-220x124.jpg 220w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-177x100.jpg 177w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-20x11.jpg 20w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melodie-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s what I hope I did \u2013 you might need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/arj.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/03\/1476750312473341.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">our paper<\/a> to see what you think\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>Mel<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to hear your ideas after you read our <a href=\"http:\/\/arj.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/03\/1476750312473341.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">article!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melodie Bat is a Senior Research Fellow, Remote Education Systems Project for the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation and Charles Darwin University and Lyn Fasoli is \u00a0at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lonely thing, writing curriculum. You sit at your computer and you put your mind into gear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Changing the world one topic at a time: Melodie Bat - AR + Action Research Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/changing-the-world-one-topic-at-a-time-melodie-bat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Changing the world one topic at a time: Melodie Bat - AR + Action Research Plus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melodie Bat is a Senior Research Fellow, Remote Education Systems Project for the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation and Charles Darwin University and Lyn Fasoli is \u00a0at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lonely thing, writing curriculum. 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