• Consultancies
  
• Other Professional Experience
  

• Papers published in journals and reports
  
• Conference papers published in proceedings
  
• Unpublished Conference and Workshop presentations
  
• Other
  

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy in Education University of Wollongong, N.S.W.

 Thesis title: Transfer of Embedded Symbolic Information Between Home and School: A grounded theory of how young children develop idiosyncratic responses during the construction of literacy in the classroom.

Thesis supervisor: Professor Brian Cambourne.

Thesis examiners:

• Professor Robert J. Tierney, Professor and Chair Educational Theory & Practice Ohio State University, USA.
• Professor Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor of Language, Reading & Culture University of Arizona, USA.

Bachelor of Science (Psychology)(Honours) Newcastle

Thesis title: Pigmalian, Galatea & Eliza: Language, looks and labours in the Classroom.

Thesis supervisor: Dr J. L. Seggie.

Thesis examiners:

• Dr J.L. Seggie Psychology Department, University of Newcastle, N.S.W.
• Dr G. Keane Psychology Department, University of Newcastle, N.S.W.

Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary/Primary) The Flinders University of South Australia

PRESENT EMPLOYER AND POSITONS HELD 

University of Wollongong - Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education - Knowledge Building Community

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2004-2006

Consultant Educator New York city schools

2002-3

Consultant Educator Escola Lumiar, Fundação Semco, São Paulo Brasil

Visiting Educator Windsor House School August-October, 2002

2001-2

Education Consultant; Principal - Marbury School, Aldgate SA 5154 EMPLOYMENT GUIDELINES

Regular panellist ABC Radio 891 Adelaide The Long Lunch

Regular columnist - Courier newspaper (Mount Barker, SA)

Editor - e-Journal for Applied Language and Literacy Research, Edith Cowan University

1998-2001

Community, Organisational and Educational Consultant (with Beryl Chalk)

Each project and workshop was tailored to participants' needs on each occasion. A collaborative and inclusive approach is paramount to effective personal, community, professional and organisational change. Current consultancies with the Independent Schools Association of WA and the Catholic Education Office of WA. I also lectured at the University of Notre Dame Australia in the Winter semester and was an invited Member Curriculum Council Advisory Board of WA for Integrated Curriculum.

Associate Director - Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research
Edith Cowan University

EMPLOYMENT GUIDELINES

1999

Trauma Counsellor:
Provide on-call debriefing and trauma counselling for survivors of trauma.

1998-1999

• As a member of a research team collect data from research sites;
• Plan and conduct (with Ms Judith Rivalland) professional development in literacy assessment workshops for teachers from independent schools in WA; and
• Produce a report on the professional development workshops in literacy assessment (AISWA Project B: Literacy Assessment P-3).
• Conduct action research projects for AISWA (Literacy assessment: Process and tools Years 7-10 and Reporting literacy in an outcomes focused environment P-10).
• Produce reports on each project and research findings.

1998

• Co-ordinate mental health training program;
• Employing and supervising workshop presenters;
• Developing and delivering workshops using a range of culturally appropriate delivery modes;
• Develop culturally appropriate mental health and counselling curricula; and
• Train Aboriginal trainee.

SUMMARY OF MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999- present

• Consultant Educator Lumiar, Brazil
• Principal, Marbury School, Aldgate SA K-12
• Founder and Co-ordinator of Sowilo Community High School, Perth
• Associate Director Centre for Applied Language & Literacy Research, Faculty of Community Services, Education & Social Sciences (FCSESS), Edith Cowan University;
• Consultant Educator Foothills School, Perth
• Consultant Educator Association of Independent Schools of WA
• (1999 only) Senior Research Assistant, FCSESS, Edith Cowan University. Postgraduate supervision; and
• Lecturer at University of Notre Dame Australia.

1998

• Curriculum and Research Officer/Program Director for Diploma in Mental Health at Marr Mooditj Aboriginal Health Worker training College, Waterford, WA
• Senior Research Assistant, FCSESS, Edith Cowan University

1997

• Consultant Educator School Without Walls, Canberra

1991- 1996 (ex 1995)

• University of Canberra where I taught in Psychology and Education and Communication until the end of semester 1, 1996.

1991-1992

• Psychology at the Australian National University (ANU) - invited to work in the Psychology Department.

1990

• Lecturer at the ACTTAFE (now Canberra Institute of Technology).

1989-1996

• Co-researcher and co-teacher with Ann Hill at the AME School, ACT. While completing my doctoral studies, I also team taught with my co-researcher-teacher in a vertically grouped K-3 group. This group consisted of two classes each with its own teacher. The two classes worked together frequently, usually on a daily basis. I also taught psychology to a Year 9/10 class at AME. I was also instrumental in collaborative curriculum development, parent liaison and AME's socialisation policy.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONSULTANCIES

PUBLICATIONS

Papers published in journals and reports

2002

• 'Boys and girls and teachers come out to play… and to learn' This article was printed nationally in Education Review and subsequently reprinted by special request in state journals of the same name in WA, NSW and Queensland.

2001

• 'Boys and girls and teachers come out to play… and to learn', Education Review (WA), WA Publishers: Perth

• 'Boy, it's tough growing up', Education Review, Australian College of Education.

2000

• with Chalk, B. "Help! Liam cannot read", Literacy Today, Sept.
  This article describes how the theoretical framework developed in my doctoral thesis was used to provide new perspectives on five Year 3 students and their literacy and learning.

• with Rivalland, J. "Crestwood Primary School", in Mapping the Territory. Primary students with learning difficulties: Literacy and Numeracy, pp 7-28, DETYA: Canberra.

• I co-authored the Case Study titled Crestwood Primary School in the recent DETYA Report titled Mapping the Territory. I worked on the project as a Senior Research Assistant who collected, collated, analysed the data and drafted the chapter.

Conference papers published in proceedings

2003

• The getting of An-education The REAL magic of learning . An invited panel paper presented at the World Social Forum, Life after Capitalism conference within a conference, January 23 –28, 2003, Port Alegre, Brazil.

1996

• Intercontexuality and the construction of literacy in the classroom, paper presented at the 22nd National Conference of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association, Brisbane, Australia, 30-June-3July.

Unpublished Conference and Workshop presentations

2003

• Sowilo: implementing radical curriculum innovation in a secondary school in Australia, Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course Level II, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, March 26.

• Uma experiência inovadora – Instituto Lumiar/SP (An innovative experience – Lumiar Institute, São Paulo) Encontro de Coordenadores Pedagógicos e Secretários Escolares/CNEC/RJ (Pedagogical Co-ordinators and Schools Secretaries Conference of the National Compnay of Community Schools), Invited presentation, Miguel Pereira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 22.

• Sowilo: designing and planning for the implementation of radical curriculum innovation in a secondary school in Australia, Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course Level II, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, March 19.

• Sowilo Curriculum 21: Community, Mentors, Other Resources and Enterprises Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course Level I, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, February 26.

• International Democratic Education Conference 2002 and Democratic schools in Australia, , Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course Level I, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, February 10.

2002

• Adult Survival Guide: for very young and not so young children, Invited public presentation for parents, prospective educators and other professionals and interested persons. Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, December 15.

• Sowilo Curriculum 21: Community, Mentors, Other Resources and Enterprises Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, November 13.

• International Democratic Education Conference 2002 and Democratic schools in Australia, Invited presentation for Lumiar Educators’ Course, Fundação Semco, São Paulo, Brazil, October 28.

• Illusions and realities in education, Margaret Langley Memorial Lecture, public lecture sponsored by Marbury School and held at Flinders University, February 25

2001

• Language we use to describe what we do Democratic Schools Conference, Currambena School, Sydney. April

2000

• Association of Independent Schools in Western Australia (AISWA) Annual Conference (invited presenter): Information Technology & Literacy: Implications for student learning & teacher programming, April 7.

• Teaching and Learning Forum 2000 (2-4 February, 2000), Curtin University of Technology, Flexible Futures in Tertiary Teaching, Demonstration: Action learning for active learning: negotiating learning in the tertiary context

• Association of Independent Schools in Western Australia (AISWA) Professional Development Workshop (invited presenter/facilitator): Outcomes focused education: Assessment of outcomes implications for reporting and the curriculum framework; Wednesday, 3/5/00

• Midland Education District of EDWA with Beryl Chalk Multiple intelligences for inclusive learning, Saturday 26/2/00

• Bentley Primary School and Al-Hidayah Islamic School with Beryl Chalk Mutliple Intelligences for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Monday 31st January, 2000

1999

• "Ties that bind: Understanding family and school dynamics in the young child's literacy development", paper presented at the Centre for Applied Language & Literacy annual Round Table Conference in September.
• Association of Independent Schools in Western Australia (AISWA) Professional Development Workshops (invited presenter):
  • Early literacy systematic assessment literacy seminar 1: Introduction to assessment. March 12.
  • Early literacy systematic assessment literacy seminar 3: New Zealand School Entry Assessment Kit. May 21. (Included language in mathematics).

• Fremantle Education Centre Conference Take the journey with outcomes focused education May 1. Co-presented with Ms Beryl Chalk:
  • Not more work, clever work
  • Do as I do (Values in education)

• Bunbury Education District Conference May 14. Co-presented with Ms Beryl Chalk (invited presenters):
  • Students at educational risk: Literacy

• Midland District Early Childhood Conference May 15. Co-presented with Ms Beryl Chalk (invited presenters):
  • Multiple Intelligences: Many ways of knowing

• AISWA Conference July 24. Co-presented with Ms Beryl Chalk (invited presenters):
  • Multiple Intelligences: Many ways of knowing
  • Learning Centres

• Midland District Years 4-8 Conference August 28. Co-presenting with Ms Beryl Chalk (invited presenters):
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Literacy and the Arts: How do I know they're learning

1998

• with Rivalland, J. AISWA Project B: Literacy Assessment P-3, Perth: AISWA.

1997

• Southside Community Services & ACT Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse It Takes a Village to Raise a Child Conference (Invited presenter). Angry clients seminar. May 30.

1996

• "Constructing literacy: Children's knowledge of how the world and the word work together to make meaning", paper presented at the International Conference on Whole Language, Melbourne, Australia, October.
• "Developing durable literacy strategies and skills: Making meaning in the face of multiple literacies", paper presented at the Australian Literacy Educators' Association of WA, Perth, Australia, 3-5 May.

1994

• "Assessing young children: Ethical and methodological issues", paper presented at the annual Peer Review Conference, Australian College of Clinical Psychologists (ACCP), ACT. November 28.

1993

• "Self determination, hypnosis and quitting smoking", paper presented at the annual Peer Review Conference, Australian College of Clinical Psychologists (ACCP), ACT. November 12.

1992

• "Assessing psychological components in irritable bowel syndrome", paper presented at the annual Peer Review Conference, Australian College of Clinical Psychologists (ACCP), ACT. November 21.
• "The family in the classroom or the classroom in the family?" paper presented at 2^nd National Conference of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association, Hobart, Australia, 30 September-3 October.
• "Life-long literacy", working paper for brochure produced in 1993, presented and workshoped at the Australian Early Childhood Association (ACT) Conference, Canberra, Australia. October.

1991

• "Repatterning intergenerational family practices in the treatment of enuresis", paper presented at the annual Peer Review Conference, Australian College of Clinical Psychologists (ACCP), ACT. December 5.

1990

• "Understanding and responding to children's behaviour during their early childhood years", Southside Community Services Conference for professional educators, child carers and parents (Invited speaker). March.

Other

1997

• Urunga Parade Early Childhood Centre, Punchbowl, N.S.W. (Invited presenter). Parent seminar: Development of early literacy practices and starting school. November 4.

1996

• Book review: McInerny & McInerny, Educational Psychology, Australian Psychologist, June, 1996.

1992-1994

• ABC Radio, Canberra, ACT: Regular guest, raising day to day psychological issues, situations, avenues for dealing with them and where to get appropriate help if needed. May, 1991- January, 1994.

1993

• "Life-long literacy", brochure produced in collaboration with early childhood staff in the ACT for the ACT literacy Task Force, March
• "Adolescent development and parental responses to adolescent behaviours", invited panel member, Association of Independent Schools of the ACT. May 10.

1991

• "Generations: A parents' guide to a child's eye view", weekly seminar for parents, Southside Community Services (Invited presenter), June-December.

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1999-2000

• Co-supervision of postgraduate students (Masters & Doctoral) at Edith Cowan University.

1996

• Participated in an action research project on quality teaching and learning at the University of Canberra during semester 1, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered teacher in South Australia and Western Australia

• Registered psychologist in NSW. I have been registered in other states at various times (Qld, ACT, SA, WA & Vic) since 1988.

• Level 2 trained in EMD/R 1992

• Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis 1992. This is a two year postgraduate course.

PROFICIENCY IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

I speak, read and write French with basic proficiency (e.g., I can hold a basic conversation and read a complex adult novel for pleasure). I have a minor in French from my BSc(Psych)(Hons) and BEd degrees.

I also have a basic working (reading, writing and speaking) knowledge of Portuguese from living and working in Brazil for 6 months. I am able to read with some difficulty complex academic papers and books in Portuguese and I use spoken Portuguese everyday in my work.