Inclusive and global education

Overview

Peformance

Evidence of research quality

ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) 2012 score:

• 4 (above world standard) -
  • Specialist Studies in Education (FOR 1303).

Developing new researchers

HDR students

48

Early career researchers

1

Publication output

2010

Total

27

Research income

2010 total

$5,741,070

2010 ERA

$6,250,412

Key grants

2008-2013

• CRC For Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (core participant)
  
• Growing up in networked spaces: tech-savvy youth constructing identities and forming social relations in online and offline worlds
• Indigenous world view, algebra pedagogy and improving indigenous performance in secondary mathematics
• Improving engagement in learning and transition to mainstream schooling for newly-arrived Sudanese youth in the middle years of schooling
• Investigating and promoting resilience in children with intellectual disabilities
• Making prevention matter: establishing characteristics of effective child sexual abuse prevention programs
• Skilling Indigenous Australia: effective numeracy learning for employment by regional and remote indigenous students in vocational education and training courses
• Strengthening capacity for disability-inclusive education development policy formulation implementation and monitoring in the South Pacific region
  
• Stronger Smarter Learning Communities – Research
• Sustainable mathematics education capacity building: empowering Indigenous teacher aides to enhance rural and remote Indigenous students numeracy outcomes
• Teaching Indigenous Mathematics Education (TIME)
• The transition to school for young children with developmental disabilities: the impact of interpersonal relationships on successful school adjustment

People

• Marilyn Campbell
• Suzanne Carrington
• Linda Gilmore
• Kerry Mallan
• Gordon Tait
• Kerryann Walsh

Projects

• Accelerated Indigenous Mathematics (AIM)
• Teaching Indigenous mathematics education (TIME)
• Career Mobility in Educational Markets: A Sociological Study of How Families Reconcile Priorities
• Who wins? Who loses? The social value of Australian children's book awards
• Classroom relations and moral order in compulsory non-academic pathways in high school and TAFE settings
• Accelerating the mathematics learning of low socio-economic status junior secondary students
• Making prevention matter: Establishing characteristics of effective child sexual abuse prevention programs
• Skilling Indigenous Australia: Effective numeracy learning for employment by regional and remote Indigenous students in vocational education and training courses
• Building Capacity for Online Counselling in Schools
• A legally-informed intervention for schools to prevent and intervene in cases of cyberbullying

Partnerships

International linkages

USA:

• Harvard University

UK:

• University of Manchester
  

Significant corporate partnerships

• Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Yumi Deadly Centre
• Stronger Smarter Institute
  

Cross-disciplinary engagement

• Language Studies
• Law
• Performing Arts and Creative Writing
• Public Health and Health Services
• Psychology
• Sociology

Impact

Evidence of impact

• Creation of a scale measuring teachers' attitudes towards reporting child sexual abuse, currently being used in international comparative studies.
• Autistic Behavioural Indicators Instrument (ABII): development and instrument utility in discriminating autistic disorder from speech and language impairment and typical development used in the USA.

Our research:

• includes a series of studies researching interactions between non-Indigenous teachers, Indigenous teacher aides and Indigenous students in remote schools that has resulted in findings concerning relationships between teacher-teacher aide practices and student learning of mathematics and in the development of a mathematics teaching program for Indigenous students used across schools in Queensland
• informed significant changes to law, policy and practice regarding teachers' reporting of suspected child sexual abuse including changes to legislation in Queensland; to policy in Queensland, Western Australia and parts of New South Wales; and development of teaching resources for use in Queensland and Western Australia
• resulted in awareness of the phenomenon of cyberbullying of children, adolescents and adults, and influences policies in schools and government enquiries into cybersafety
• advises international donor agencies and governments on education sector institutional strengthening, teacher quality improvement, ICT in education and research capacity development.