Postgraduate Studies

List of available supervisors within the School of Education

Dr Allan Arnott
Director of CLR. Allan's background is in community adult education and VTE. He has worked in the area of Aboriginal adult education, the development of adult education community centers in remote communities, and the coordination of adult programs. Research interests include the provision of adult education in remote localities, the staff development needs of remote area adult educators, and processes of workplace learning, education and work including the Indigenous labour market in the NT, and how pastoralists of the tropical savannas learn and change using case study and ethnographic approaches.

Dr Paul Black.
Senior Lecturer, Applied Linguistics. Paul is currently undertaking PDL in Japan. Paul has taught programs for Australian indigenous literacy workers and interpreters, and now teaches such units as Linguistics for Language Specialists, Field Linguistics, and Language Learning. His research interests range from descriptive and historical linguistics to sociolinguistics, writing pedagogy, and computer assisted language learning.

Dr Lorraine Connell
Having returned to the classroom to study her own teaching , she is particularly interested in assisting teachers to examine their own workplace practice, bel ie fs and values. She lectures in the Creative and Expressive Arts and has been engaged in web-mediated teaching for some while. She has recently returned from a visit to the USA where she looked at the application of the theory of Multiple Intelligences to schools.

Dr Brian Devlin
Associate Professor Applied Linguistics. Brian has considerable experience in rural and remote education. He has worked as a teacher linguist, principal and teacher in PNG and Arnhemland and was Co-commissioner for the NT during the HEREOC enquiry into rural and remote education. More recently he was visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in China. Extensive research interests including web-mediated learning and simulations, computer-based writing assessment techniques, improving program efficiency and effectiveness by developing robust evaluation and assessment procedures, improving boys experiences of school, and developing two-way learning programs.

Dr Ian Falk
Professor of Rural Education. Ian's areas of expertise include :

• Sociology and rural sociology
• Regional and community development, community capacity building
• Social capital
• Adult learning, learning communities
• Policy processes and relationship with research
• Leadership
• Schools relationships with their communities
• Literacy (school and adult from socio-cultural perspective)
• Indigenous education (including aspects of flexible delivery)

Dr Lyn Fasoli
Associate Dean Teaching and Learning. Lyn has had extensive experience teaching in a range of early childhood settings, in schools, child care centres, out of school hours care, and a mobile children's service. She lectures in Child Development, Play, Multiple Intelligences, and Child Care. Lyn recently completed her Doctorate at Canberra University, using Wenger's sociocultural approach to 'communities of practice' (Wenger, 1998) as a framework for investigating young children's learning in museums, art galleries and preschool. She has also undertaken collaborative narrative inquiry to generate Indigenous early childhood educators' stories of valued practices with young Indigenous children.

Dr Mike Grenfell

Lecturer in Education and Coordinator of Postgraduate Education Courses.

Areas of interest. Teachers' Work; Learning Communities; Supervisory Practice including the Practicum; Professional Development; Arts-based Research Methodologies. Current research: The construction of whiteness.

Dr Merridy Malin.

Senior Lecturer ( Alice S prings Campus). Areas of teaching: Indigenous Education, social justice and cultural diversity, qualitative research methods, Indigenous health and education. Research interests: Indigenous Education - early childhood, primary, secondary, and alternative programs; classroom ethnography; action research; social determinants of health; anti-racism education; "Whiteness".

Dr Suzanne Parry

Head of School of Education. Her interests are in oral history, medical history, and Social Education including Education for Democracy.

Ms Jennifer Rennie

Lecturer: Literacy a nd Numeracy. Jennifer has just submitted her PhD thesis on 'Oral Reading: An investigation into the relationship between oral reading and learning to read in the Primary School' which she undertook through James Cook University. Jennifer has taught in primary and high schools for 14 years and now teaches a number of literacy and practicum related units at CDU. Her research interests include reading, literacy, critical literacy and middle school issues. She is currently involved in a project examining the transition experiences of six Year 7 indigenous students from their community schools to their urban high school settings.

Dr Diane Szarkowicz

A registered psychologist who has worked as a Disability Consultant for the AECA. Her teaching areas are research methodology, assessment and child/adolescent development. She is particularly interested in peer relations and the development of aggression.

Dr Juhani Tuovinen
Particularly interested in ICT applications to learning and teaching in distance and online education. He has been involved in Computer Education, Mathematics Education and Science Education and has worked extensively in multimedia and hypermedia.