Current students

Doctor of Education

Brendan Bergin

Thesis Title: A pedagogy of evangelization (EN 48): God's reign and the commission of a Catholic school
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Rev Dr James McEvoy (Faculty of Theology and Philosophy)

Rachel Foster

Thesis Title: Exploring sector specific needs and expectations of ECE positional leaders from a lived experience perspective
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Dr Jenny Martin (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Philippa McKeering

Thesis Title: Acculturation and wellbeing for international school students: examining the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention
Supervisors: Professor Clarence Ng, Dr Baljinder Sahdra (Institute for Positive Psychology and Education)

Gillian Roberts

Thesis title: Perspectives and practices that characterise effective leadership in early childhood education in New Zealand
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Dr Jenny Martin (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Deirdre Tate

Thesis Title: Speaking of starting school: Investigating key perspectives on children's oral language development in the first year of school

Supervisors: Professor Susan Edwards, Professor Kathy Mills

Master of Education (Research)

Julie Robinson

Thesis Title: To what extent are the current HALT and graduate accreditation processes impacting the improvement of teaching quality within schools as a whole rather than recognising individual teacher status?
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith

Master of Philosophy in Education

Celine Chu

Thesis Title: Parent practices of co-play in a community playgroup
Supervisors: Associate Professor Karen McLean, Professor Susan Edwards

Didem Aydin

Thesis Title: Battling misinformation in public health through posters – A multimodal study of WHO’s COVID-19 “myth busting” posters
Supervisors: Professor Len Unsworth, Dr Thu Ngo (Faculty of Education and Arts)

  

Doctor of Philosophy (Contemporary Humanism)

Alessandra Boscolo

Thesis Title: A multicultural investigation on manipulative-based approaches in geometry teaching and learning
Supervisors: Professor Gabriella Agrusti (LUMSA-Rome), Professor Vince Geiger

Frederica Caccioppola

Thesis Title: Education for global citizenship and open class climate. Video-analysis of verbal and non-verbal interactions in the classroom
Supervisors: Professor Gabriella Agrusti (LUMSA-Rome), Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith, Professor Kathy Mills, Professor Bob Lingard

Dany Lopez

Thesis Title: The quality of reports in physics lab and their relationship with the level of scientific abilities
Supervisors: Dr Alejandra Meneses (PUC-Chile), Prof Len Unsworth, Maximiliano Montenegro (PUC-Chile)

Doctor of Philosophy

Tanjin Ashraf

Thesis Title: Power is power: Capturing the evolving status of K-12 teaching as a profession
Supervisors: Dr Jessica Holloway, Professor Bob Lingard

Jane Caughey

Thesis Title: Children, adults and online sociodramatic play in the family homes
Supervisors: Professor Susan Edwards, Associate Professor Karen McLean, Mr Dan Donahoo (Alannah and Madeline Foundation), Ms Laura Stone (ABC)

Benjamin Holland-Twining

Thesis Title: STEM leadership capability and whole-of-school cultural change
Supervisors: Professor Vince Geiger, Dr Thorsten Scheiner

Rachel Hughes

Thesis Title: An exploration of love in the practice of infant and toddler teachers
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Rev Dr James McEvoy (Faculty of Theology and Philosophy)

Sarah Langman

Thesis Title: Digital data techniques and technologies: Reshaping the roles and responsibilities of school leaders
Supervisors: Dr Jessica Holloway, Dr Steven Lewis

Honor Mackley

Thesis Title: Tinkering in early childhood learning: Developing concepts of digital technologies through 'hands on' manipulations of digitally themed loose parts materials
Supervisors: Professor Susan Edwards, Associate Professor Karen McLean, Dr Renata Cinelli (Faculty of Education and Arts), Dr Kate Highfield (Early Childhood Australia)

Clive Mendis

Thesis Title: The use of blended learning as a teaching approach in senior secondary science
Supervisors: Professor Kathy Mills, Associate Professor Laura Scholes

Angela Morcos

Thesis Title: Processes of early childhood education policy development in local government in Victoria, Australia: An institutional ethnography
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Rev Dr Tonya Rooney (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Sarah Nailer

Thesis Title: Those who stay: examining the role of a school-university partnership in supporting teachers as they move from 'proficient' to 'highly accomplished'
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Dr Amy McPherson (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Julie Plows

Thesis Title: Assessing the arts of learning of two-year-olds within teacher-led early childhood education and care environments in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Dr Jenny Martin (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Maryam Razmjoee

Thesis Title: Classroom assessment adjustments, academic achievement, academic wellbeing: A mixed methods study of Australian secondary school students with and without disabilities
Supervisors: Professor Joy Cumming, Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith

Rebecca Spratt

Thesis Title: Assembling context-responsiveness in Pacific regional education development cooperation
Supervisors: Dr Steven Lewis, Professor Bob Lingard

Melanie Thomas

Thesis Title: Play and community playgroups: Caregiver motives and early childhood societal values
Supervisors: Associate Professor Karen McLean, Professor Susan Edwards, Dr Renata Cinelli (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Helen Wrightson

Thesis Title: The construction of spaces of and for visual arts in early childhood education
Supervisors: Professor Joce Nuttall, Dr Tonya Rooney (Faculty of Education and Arts)

Completed students

  • Jane Caughey, Play as a leading activity for children in a digitally-mediated environment in the home setting. MEd(Res), 2021
  • Christine Jackson, The utility of NAPLAN for improving teaching and learning. MEd(Res), 2020
  • Marijne Medhurst, Access to Achievement: Enabling Students with Disability to Engage with Classroom Assessment. PhD, 2020
  • Phung Nguyen, Developing the Evaluative Language Competence of Teacher Education Students in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Courses in Vietnam. PhD, 2020
  • Timothy Katiba, A qualitative case study of joint media engagement between parents and children aged birth-to-three years in Nairobi County in Kenya. PhD, 2020
  • Lesley Friend, Global Trajectories: Power-geometries, cultural differences and sociomateriality in school practice in two nations. PhD, 2020
  • Sarah Young, Teacher as Player: Co-creating with children in play. PhD, 2020
  • Rebecca Matthews, What is an 'educator'?: The impact of policy discourses on early childhood professionals. MEd(Res), 2020
  • Maria Varlet, In the World But Not of the World: Ethos, Assessment and Professional Learning in the Christian School Context. EdD, 2019
  • Bessie Stone, The Affordances of Online Multiplayer Games for the Social Interaction of middle-primary-school-aged Students with ASD. PhD, 2019
  • Rachael Adlington, Young children's online authoring: the techno-semiotic co-construction of blogs. PhD, 2017
  • Jennifer Weber, The understanding of early childhood development that Alberta Kindergarten teachers bring to their work when administering the early development instrument (EDI). PhD, 2017

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