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School of Education NewsAmanda McGraw is awarded the 2009 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.December 2009 The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence was presented to Amanda McGraw in recognition of a broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching at the University of Ballarat. A Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning was also presented to Jenene Burke, Adele Echter, Christopher Wines and Amanda McGraw for the development of a structured, innovative, integrated teaching and learning program to aid students in developing deep understandings about how people learn Robyn Brandenburg also received a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for her sustained commitment to innovative research-based approaches to the teaching and learning of mathematics, resulting in pre-service teachers' growth as critically reflective teachers. School of Education PhD student wins award for Best Oral Presentation at the UB 2009 Research Conference.November 2009 One of the School of Education PhD students, Katrina Macdonald, recently received an award for Best Oral Presentation for her paper at the UB 2009 Research Conference. The paper was titled 'Stakeholder ethnography: An alternative approach for insider researchers' and discussed a 'gonzo' informed theoretical framework that Katrina developed that would accommodate her unique perspective as a stakeholder in the roller derby subculture that she is researching for her thesis. School of Education gets Victoria's top vote from students for teaching quality.August 2009 The following article by Miki Perkins, titled "Rural unis beat city cousins" was published in the Age on August 11, 2009.
Dr Annette Foley is awarded this year’s BELMAS Best Thesis Award at a ceremony held in Sheffield, UKJuly 2009 Dr Annette Foley is the recipient of this year’s BELMAS Best Thesis Award and received The Ray Bolam Doctoral Thesis Award 2009. This annual award is made to the individual whose thesis is deemed by the Selection Panel to have made the most important contribution to our understanding of educational leadership and/or management and/or policy of those that have been submitted for consideration. “The panel were unanimous in their view that this is a PhD thesis of outstanding quality and well deserving of the Award. It makes an important contribution to the under-researched field of post-compulsory education management....we consider this to be a thesis with important potential for publication internationally, and written to a very high standard”. Dr Joan Stewart receives award from Victorian Teachers Credit UnionJuly 2009 Dr Joan Stewart has been a part of a successful application awarded by the Victorian Teachers Credit Union through their 'Teaching Initiatives Program'. The project will also feed into a group research project with Indiana University, USA and some USA teachers. The local project will work with a class of students at Sebastopol PS through a project titled 'Thinking Critically Through Guided Reading'. Monies awarded will enable the purchase of guided reading books and matching DVDs so the students can read and work on class computers and/or a smart board as supplementary activities. This project will feed into the group research project in the U.S. This group have been selected from 1200 applications to present at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Philadelphia at the end of 2009. An invitation to join the editorial board of the prestigious journal “Ethnography” has been offered to Dr Jacqui WilsonApril 2009 An invitation to join the editorial board of the prestigious journal “Ethnography” has been offered to Dr Jacqui Wilson. The co-editor of the journal, Paul Willis (author of “Learning to Labour), who wrote to Jacqui describes “Ethnography”: "The journal has established itself as a leader in the field across the social sciences and, highly unusually, has really established bridges across the social scientific divides especially between anthropology and sociology. We are known for a theoretically informed, open at times experimental approach with a civic edge and commitment to thorough presentation of serious ethnographic data. We are distributed across the globe, carry a wide range of articles from all continents and with Sage's grouped electronic delivery now reach around five thousand institutions worldwide. It is now time to consolidate our position with the arrival of a new editor and a re-shuffle of our international board." Current School of Education student Alison Nguyen has just won the 2009 IELTS Australia Peace Scholarship Student of the Year AwardApril 2009 We are pleased to announce that NGUYEN Thi Thanh Nhan (Alison) from Vietnam has been awarded the IELTS Australia Peace Scholarship Student of the Year Award for her contributions to university and community life whilst in Australia on the Peace Scholarship Program. As the overall winner Alison was awarded $750 prize money at a ceremony in Sydney on 21 April, which was also attended by one of her current lecturers Karen Felstead. Our congratulations go to Alison for her achievement. Bushfire Affected SchoolsFeb 2009 Students and staff of the School of Education have been collecting teacher resources i.e. books, copies of worksheets, hands on resources, classroom equipment, library books, readers and toys .... for the fire affected schools and kindergartens of which 3 schools AND 3 kindergartens have been completely destroyed. This is an opportunity for the pre-service teachers to give back to the education community and already many donations have been made. Pauline Rogers New Program Coordinator for EC programsFeb 2009 The School welcomes Dr Michelle Ortlipp as our new Program Coordinator for Early Childhood programs. |