Dr Jill Lawrence
 
| Faculty of Arts | University of Southern Queensland

Welcome

My name is Jill Lawrence. I teach and research at the University of Southern Queensland, a regional and transnational university.

My driving force is making connections: with the diversity of students I teach, with my colleagues and with wider communities. So, in the spirit of Humanities and the Arts, I draw on the wisdom of others to make connections with you.

The quotations below resonate with me, capturing the essence of my teaching.

Connections (in my teaching approaches)

“Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibres, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” Herman Melville

Passion (in enhancing curricula and resources)

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright

Learning (fostered through assessment and feedback)

“If we value independence then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.” Carl Rogers

Diversity (celebrating and respecting student differences)

“We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.” John F. Kennedy

Engagement (in scholarly activities and research)

“Education becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” Paulo Freire

Dr Jill Lawrence | Category: Humanities and the Arts
2007 Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching