PhD and EdD confirmation presentations
All students and staff are invited to our Doctoral Proposal Presentations. For more information on these presentations, please contact the Associate Dean, Research.
2009 Presentations
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Presenter
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Title
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Abstract
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| 27 May |
Professor Terry Evans (Deakin University) |
Trends in Australian PhDs and the implications for education in universities |
This seminar presents data and analyses from current and recent research, funded by the ARC and Australian Government, conducted by the presenter and colleagues into the growth and development of PhD programs in Australia, and into the nature of the work of doctoral students in Australia. This research established a database of Australian thesis records—from the first in 1948 through to 2006, coded by discipline—and collected data through a national survey of doctoral students on their doctoral and other work. |
| March |
Associate Professor Solveig Jakobsdottir |
Making distance education 'cool (down)'? Tale of two merging universities in iceland. |
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| 9 April |
Ms Lindy-Anne Abawi |
Exploring the 'lived experience' within IDEAS schools of a Contextually Constructed language-in-use of Understanding and Enaction (CCLUE) that facilitates and is facilitated by change. |
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| 19 March |
Ms Kitty Lai-King Ho |
The use of information communication technologies in home economics education in Hong Kong |
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2008 Presentations
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Date
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Presenter
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Title
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Abstract
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| Thursday 11 December 2008 |
Brinda Oogarah-Pratap (EdD candidate) |
Developing and implementing asynchronous online discussions to facilitate deep learning among trainee teachers in a multicultural and non-native English speaking setting.
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Some studies have shown that asynchronous online discussions have the potential to foster deep learning, but most of these studies have been conducted among homogeneous groups of native English speakers. Thus, a study will be conducted with the aim to design, develop and implement asynchronous online discussions that facilitate deep learning among culturally diverse non-native English speaking trainee teachers. Design-based research (DBR) will provide the research framework and will involve the design and development of asynchronous online discussions that will be tested and refined through an iterative process.
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| Thursday 20 November 2008 |
Akihiro Saito (PhD candidate) |
Discursive construction of attitudes toward English as a global language among Japanese university students |
This study explores attitudes toward English as a global language among Japanese university students. Specifically, it will focus on their attitudes towards learning English and the spread of English on the global scene and its impact on Japanese society. The study uses the discursive approach to second language acquisition research, drawing upon the methodology of discursive (social) psychology (Potter & Wetherell, 1987). The innovation of the study is to apply the discursive approach to the study of language attitudes in general and in the context of English as a foreign language in Japan in particular. |
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Thursday 6 November 2008
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Jennie Swann (PhD candidate) |
How can staff evelopment help tutors to facilitate the development of reflective dialogue online? A design-based research approach to the development of an artefact to upport online tutors of post-graduate degree programs
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Students find critical thinking difficult to express online when they are learning something new, perhaps because emerging ideas are very vulnerable to criticism. The purpose of this research is to develop and test an "artefact" which will help university tutors to facilitate one form of online discourse, reflective dialogue. The artefact will be based on Wegerif's dialogic model (2007), underpinned by Bereiter's view of knowledge (2002).
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Thursday 16 October 2008
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Janet Buchan (PhD candidate) |
Developing resilience and managing change in technology -enhanced learning environments |
This PhD research aims to fulfil a perceived need or gap in the current educational management processes. This need is to find ways to help individuals and institutions maintain and manage the integrity of their specific technology-enhanced learning environment in the face of constant change in the broader educational environment.
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| Thursday 11 September 2008 |
Robyn Torok (PhD candidate) |
Governmentality of the contemporary institution of schooling and its effects upon teacher professionalism - a case study |
The proposed research study looks at the concept of gonvernmentality in schools. The term 'governmentality' is used in the manner outlined by philosopher Michel Foucault and includes two main aspects: technologies of disciplinary power and technologies of the self. Thus the aim of the study is to examine how dynamics of power and knowledge function to affect the teacher within the discourse of professionalism. |