Researching and Leading for New Directions in Education
We were pleased to present the following paper at the 6th INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC IDENTITIES CONFERENCE (IAIC) 2018. Held at The Peaceful University: aspirations for academic futures – compassion, generosity, imagination, and creation, Hiroshima University, Japan, 19 September 2018. You can download a copy…
Curriculum Development of the First Women-Only Industrial Design Program in Saudi Arabia The first of our research articles on our curriculum development project has now been published in the International Journal of Design Education. Our team of international researchers and myself as…
Developments in Saudi Arabia It is an exciting time of change in Saudi Arabia. One of the key changes is the launch in 2016 of the Saudi Vision 2030 which is a comprehensive plan to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on…
Are you a design educator? Do you work in Higher Education? I am excited to share with you a recent publication, based on some research conducted with my colleagues from UC in a first-year Design and Architecture Studio. The study incorporated a…
We presented a Poster during the Welcome Reception at HERDSA 2017 Conference. To know more please read on. We invite you to connect with us to find out more about this exiting project. Exploring career aspirations and pathways for undergraduate…
My colleague was in Denmark, 2016, and has presented the following conference paper, as part of a project on curriculum development in … well read on! Curriculum in progress: Developing an industrial design programme for female students in Saudi Arabia Carlos…
My colleague, Dr. Janie Busby Grant, and I have been conducting some very interesting research into the use of Videos for Teaching Statistics in Psychology. We will be presenting this research as a poster at the 2015 ISSOTL conference. The Abstract…
As I was re-reading my last post, I recalled using that paper as the foundation for a chapter on the context in my PhD thesis (2004). The chapter, however, had a broader context, and included a rather extensive section on…
I found this paper, I had written in 1999, recently and decided it was worth another airing. The Australian National Curriculum is well on its way to implementation in Australian schools, both private and State systems. It is worth a…
The Role of Private Sector Governance in the Australian Public Sector Improving society’s well-being, for example through the provision of better education (that is, improved education access, better educational facilities, and higher literacy and numeracy outcomes) have been seen as…