CREd Higher Degree by Research Graduates
2011
Shaughney Aston
Principal Supervisor: Dr Vicki Crowley & Associate Supervisors: Dr Jenny Barnett & Dr Katrina Jaworski
Addict, woman, rural: A predicament of culture
Christopher Boulter
Co-Supervisors: Prof Bruce Johnson & Dr Sue Nichols
On the periphery: classroom teacher accounts of including special needs students in Nova Scotia
Christine Davis
Co-Supervisors: Prof Marie Brennan & Prof Bill Green
Practice-as-complexity: a critical-collagic perspective on management education in the South Australian public sector
Hui Du
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisors: AsPr Jill Burton & Dr Mia Stephens
Teacher talk in college English classrooms: features, functions, and input to language learning
Sushita Gokool-Ramdoo
Principal Supervisor: Dr Dianne Bills & Associate Supervisor: Dr Ruth Geer
Bridging Transactional Distances in Distance Education: Implications for student persistence, quality assurance and national policy development in Mauritius
Kirsty Hammet
Principal Supervisor Associate Professor Robert Hattam & Associate Supervisor: Dr Peter Willis.
Giving a good account: people living with HIV/AIDS as policy actors in advanced liberal times.
Cathryn Hammond
Co-Supervisors: Dr Jenny Barnett & Dr Tom Stehlik
Socially sustainable practice: voices from within scholarly communities
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Zeegers
Learning to teach English in Philippine elementary schools: Types of knowledge pre-service teachers need
Steven Hodge
Co-Supervisors: Prof Roger Harris & AsPr Michele Anne Simons Associate
Supervisor: Dr Peter Willis
Transformative learning in the context of Australian vocational education and training
Glenna Lear
Supervisors were Tom Stehlik & Peter Willis
There’s got to be more!: The third age life of rural women of action
Ann Luzeckyj
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sue Nichols & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Ingrid Day
The knowledge economy goes to work: a critical analysis of policy and practice in Australian technology network universities and their libraries
Kerrie Mackey-Smith
Co-Supervisors: AsPr Robert Hattam & Helen Nixon
Dialogic possibilities in scripted classrooms: A single school ethnography
Julia Metcalfe
Co-Supervisors: Dr Tom Stehlik & Dr Peter Willis
A learning memoir of a quest for authentic living
Sutida Ngonkum
Co-Supervisors: Dr Jenny Barnett & Dr Zheng Lin Associate Supervisor: Dr Greg Yates
Mediating Thai tertiary student learning of listening comprehension through listening strategies and group work
Jacinta-Marie Poskey
Principal Supervisor: Dr Tom Stehlik & Associate Supervisor: Prof Graeme Hugo
Socio-spatial reproduction? a quantitative case study of secondary education mobilities, Adelaide
Lloydetta Quaicoe
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Judy Gill
Newly arrived immigrant and refugee children in Newfoundland schools: Education, acculturation and belonging
Claire Ralfs
Principal Supervisor: Dr Robert Hattam & Associate Supervisor: Dr Peter Willis
Caring to know: the problem of justice-seeking education in the community services sector
Phairin Rugsakorn
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisor: Mr Greg Restall
Managing curriculum change: project-based learning with Thai undergraduate English learners
Trevor Short
Principal Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Hattam & Associate Supervisor: Dr Tom Stehlik
Teachers and students in alternative schools: narratives from the margins of public education
Alison Wrench
Co-Supervisors: AsPR Robert Hattam &Dr Lew Zipin
Practicalities, fictions and possibilities: becoming socially critical teachers of PE
2010
Grant Banfield
Principal Supervisor: Dr Lew Zipin & Associate Supervisor: A/Prof Leesa Wheelahan
Towards an emergentist marxist sociology of education: addressing the problems of naturalism and structure-agency
Leigh Burrows
Principal Supervisor: Dr Tom Stehlik & Associate Supervisor: Prof Phillip Slee
Accessing the inaccessible: restoring the pathways to wellbeing and learning for a young person on the autism spectrum through holistic-relational practice
Jennifer Carter
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Michele Simons
Education policy as responsibility in the Dawkins and Nelson eras
Hartshin Chong-Loke
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck & Associate Supervisor: Dr Sharon Russo
A self-evaluation and development framework for quality improvement in eight kindergartens in Singapore: a case study
Pui Chow
Principal Supervisor: Prof Wendy Schiller & Associate Supervisors: Dr Annette Raynor & Ms Robyne Garrett
Exploring a dynamic systems approach in teaching dance to pre-service physical education teachers in Hong Kong
Darinthorn Inthapthim
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton
Learner autonomy among Thai university undergraduates in contexts of English as a foreign language
Janett Jackson
Co-Supervisors: AsPr John Holmes & Dr Peter Willis
Shifting reflections: critical drama pedagogy and original performance creation in primary school learning
Dararat Khampusaen
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton
Participation patterns and factors in professional development for ICT in Thai university foreign language teaching
Tania Meyer
Co-Supervisors: Dr Sue Knight & Dr Carol Collins & Associate Supervisors: Dr
Greg Yates & Ms Margaret Chandler
Developing justificatory reasoning: the importance for teacher education
Fiona Partridge
Co-Supervisors: Dr David Lloyd & Prof Bruce Johnson
Exploring the conceptualisation, development and implementation of the University of South Australia's pre-service teacher
education programs with a middle years component: case studies with lessons concerning change
Ann Perren
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck & Associate Supervisor: Dr Sharon Russo
The effect of a structured outdoor programme on the gross motor development of preschoolers
Lydia Richards
Principal Supervisor: Prof Roger Harris & Associate Supervisor: Dr Carmen Joham
Business as usual: vet practitioner perceptions of continuous improvement and AQTF 2007
Tanya Rogers
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan & Associate Supervisor: Dr Elspeth McInnes
The ethics of care and justice in senior secondary education
Shelley Spencer
Principal Supervisor: Prof Tony Liddicoat & Associate Supervisor: Dr Zheng Lin
Language teacher as language learner: a diary study of a language learner's perspective of independent learning of German
Jennifer Stanley
Principal Supervisor: Dr Faye McCallum & Associate Supervisor: Dr Tom Stehlik
Student engagement and retention: looking for pathways forward
Deborah Tranter
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Judith Gill & Associate Supervisor: Prof Alan Reid
Why not university? school culture and higher education aspirations in disadvantaged schools
Jenni Werner
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Judith Gill & Associate Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan
So few, so slow: a contemporary investigation of the immutability of women's under-representation at senior levels in Australian organisations
Rochelle Woodley-Baker
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan & Associate Supervisor: Prof Alison Mackinnon
Challenging lives: young women managing family, school, work and welfare
SiHo Yang
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton & Associate Supervisor: Dr Jenny Barnett
Learning a second language: a case study of a Korean ESL child in Australia
Chong Zhou
Co-Supervisors: Dr Peter Willis & Dr Tom Stehlik
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Jill Burton
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan & Associate Supervisor: Prof Roger Harris
Writing TESOL: constructing teaching in a TESOL world
Jane Connell
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Roger Harris & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Michele Simons
Adult learner barriers and strategies in process-based learning within higher education
Lisa Davies
Principal Supervisor: Dr Tom Stehlik & Associate Supervisor: Prof Roger Harris
Entering a maelstrom: a qualitative examination of forces which shape managers' beliefs about depression education in some workplaces
Neelima Anand Gokhale
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck & Associate Supervisor: AsPr Susan Hill
Children's literacy development in the context of their preschool pedagogies in selected communities in India: a case study
Shau Wan Kam
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck & Associate Supervisor: Ms Janet McDowall
An examination of the creativity of young children in four child care centres in Hong Kong
Assunta Knight
Co Supervisors: AsPr Jill Burton & Dr Jenny A Barnett
Engaging cultural diversity in a Catholic secondary school: multiculturalisms in action
Eva Lai
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Judith Gill
An investigation of the perceptions of teaching staff and parents of the integration program for young children with disabilities in mainstream preschools in Hong Kong
Deborah Price
Principal Supervisor: Dr Greg Yates & Associate Supervisor: Dr Nadine Pelling
Ego depletion: an investigation of effects on primary school students
Sylvia Reyes
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck & Associate Supervisor: Ms Anne
Carrington
A case study of young Cambodian children's construction of knowledge:
implications for improving the teaching and learning of science
Sam Sellar
Co Supervisors: Dr Lew Zipin & Dr Robert Hattam
Visceral pedagogies and other ways of knowing: exploring ethical responsibility in relationships at the periphery of institutional schooling
Thomas Short
Principal Supervisor: Prof Roger Harris & Associate Supervisor: Dr Peter Willis
Strategic alignment and learning in human resource development: a hermeneutic exploration
Sutida Siripong
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton & Associate Supervisor: Dr Jenny A Barnett
A investigation of professional development and action research practices for English language teachers in a higher education setting in Thailand
Melissa Stevenson
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Phil Cormack & Associate Supervisor: Dr Jenny A Barnett
Teachers' literacy programming and context
Lorna Wanzel
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sue Nichols & Associate Supervisor: Dr Jane Gordon
Independent music teachers building professional knowledge through collaborative
research
Keekuok (Joseph) Wong
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sue Nichols, Associate Supervisors: Dr Zheng Lin & Mr
Charles Clennell
Learning in an Australian university: Asian international students' perspectives
Bonnie Yim
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
Factors influencing young children's engagement in musical activities: a cross-cultural study
2008
Katherine Bowlby
Co-Supervisors: AsPr Phil Cormack & AsPr Andy Manning (Mt St Vincent University, Nova Scotia)
Becoming somebody: Discourses and identities in a Nova Scotia high school
Jan Coker
Principal Supervisor: Dr Peter Willis
We have gills for dream life' examining a transformative curriculum in collaborative design science
Lyn Conway
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
The South Australian curriculum, standards and accountability framework in preschools: influence and outcomes on literacy learning
Jeannie Daniels
Co Supervisors: Dr Sue Shore & Dr Elaine Butler
Negotiating learning: women, the everyday and VET
Mary Green
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Suzanne Franzway
Caring relations at work: a case study of one Canadian school district
Susan Krieg
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sue Nichols
Competing professional identities in contemporary early childhood teacher
education
Lai-Wan Maria Lee
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
Pre-service and in-service child care and education students using storytelling
as a teaching method to understand Confucian values in kindergarten-aged children in Hong Kong: a study of expressed views
Anna MacLeod
Principal Supervisor: Dr Blye Frank
Problem-based learning and the social: a feminist poststructural investigation
Anita Pucinischi
Co-Supervisors: AsPr Jill Burton & Dr Jenny A Barnett
Parent and educator perceptions of early second language acquisition, bilingualism and maintenance of the first language in six early childhood settings
Robert Steventon
Principal Supervisor: Prof Bruce Johnson
An investigation into explanations of some boys' academic and social-emotional 'underachievement'
Deborah Toope
Co-Supervisors: Dr Sue Nichols & Prof Barbara Comber
Teacher research as professional development: investigating my practice and teachers' relations with knowledge
Lisa Tregenza
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
A study of teaching behaviours in six selected Long Day Care Centres; an analysis of 12 educators interactions with children
Sten Van Zoost
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Phil Cormack
Mark me: student identities in authentic assessment practices
2007
Sabry Abd-El-Fattah
Principal Supervisor: Dr Greg Yates
Transition to university: impacts of self-theories of intelligence
Hesham Alomyan
Principal Supervisor: Dr Wing Au
Web-based learning: an investigation of individual differences and instructional strategies
Carmencita Cerna
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
A study of child rearing practices amongst a selected sample of Filipino, Cambodian and Sudanese families in South Australia: implications for child care
service selection and program development
Chanel Croker
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
Young children's early learning in the two rural communities of Tanzania: implications for policy and programme development
Nerilee Flint
Co Supervisors: AsPr Bruce Johnson & Dr Dianne Bills
Undergraduate university students' perceptions of the fairness of educational assessment: a grounded theory study
Hua Geng
Principal Supervisor: Dr Wing Au
Investigation of factors that influence interaction within an online learning context
Catherine Hall
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Roger Harris
Nurses practicing safely: an analysis of law curriculum - what is taught, learnt and applied in nursing
Ping Huang
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton
Genre analysis of article abstracts in international and Chinese TESOL journals written in English and its use in teaching English for academic purposes in a
tertiary institution in China
Kaye Johnson
Principal Supervisor: Prof Barbara Comber
Researching with children: exploring children's place(s) in their local primary school
Zee Kavanagh
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marjory Ebbeck
Teacher development: a study in Singapore of teacher self-analysis and critical inquiry
Sharron King
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Bruce Johnson
The emotional dimension of educational change: the staff experience of implementing problem-based learning
Dinh Nguyen
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Jill Burton
Giving and receiving compliments: a cross-cultural study in Australian English and Vietnamese
Heather Parris
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jenny A Barnett
Cultures of learning and student participation: a study in two multicultural classrooms for English as an additional language
Ian Reid
Principal Supervisor: Dr Helen Nixon
Auditing the entrepreneurial university: a study of the role of quality assurance and online education in Australian higher education, 2002-2005
Susan Settle
Co Supervisors: Dr Andy Manning & Dr Helen Nixon
Negotiating critical curriculum in an early years classroom: a teacher researchers inquiry
Nancy Taber
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Donovan Plumb
Ruling relations, warring, and mothering: writing the social from the everyday life of a military mother
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Rita Armitage
Principal Supervisor: Prof Barbara Comber
Measuring up: discursive and material effects of testing times on parents and children
Lynn Aylward
Principal Supervisor: Ms Jenny Barnett
The role of Inuit language and culture in Nunavut schooling: discourses of the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit conversation
Patricia Carroll
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Judith Gill
Times of our lives: a longitudinal study of women and 'retirement'
Gerald Galway
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Pat Thomson
An investigation of the uses of evidence and research in the educational decision making of policy elites
Wei-Chung Hu
Principal Supervisor: Dr Alan Barnes
Enhanced teaching and learning of engineering surveying with e-mathematics tools
Miriam Hughes
Principal Supervisor: Prof Marie Brennan
From Eve to Jezebel: Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian fundamentalism the construction and reconstruction of women's gendered identities within the faith
Brenda Kelleher-Flight
Principal Supervisor: Dr Rodney Fopp
Decentralized decision making in Canada: governance in social-sector boards
Rosemary Kerin
Principal Supervisor: Prof Barbara Comber
Going digital: the impact of ICTs on the identities and professional practices of teachers of English
Esther Loong
Principal Supervisor: Dr Alan Barnes
Web-based teaching strategies for secondary school mathematics
Joanna Lucas
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sue Shore
Retrieving social justice as an aim of education: the importance of dialogical inquiry
Ronald MacDonald
Principal Supervisor: Dr Alan Barnes
In what ways do teacher attitudes, professional development, and leadership affect the classroom information communication technologies integration?
Ioana Tuugalei Chan Mow
Principal Supervisor: Dr Wing Au
The effectiveness of cognitive apprenticeship-based learning environment (CABLE) in teaching computer programming
Valerie Paltridge
Principal Supervisor: AsPr Judith Gill
More than just meeting places? neighbourhood houses, women's wellbeing and social capital
Christine Thorley
Co Supervisors: AsPr Bruce Johnson & Dr Peter Willis
Illness, recovery and renewal - and the role of creative painting experiences
Hung Van Dang
Supervisor: Ms Jenny Barnett
Constructions of an active language learner in English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education in Vietnam