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A/PROF DAVID BECKETT



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=1863
Work: 8344 8516
Fax: 8344 8643
Room: 238
Level: 02
Building: Alice Hoy Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Education policy Post modernity, federalism, markets Australia
Adult and community education Employability, capabilities, community Australia
History and Philosophy of Education Education practice, values and epistemology Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom King's College London Research
South Africa University of Witwatersrand Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Monash University 31-Dec-1974
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 13-Mar-1982
Master of Education University of Melbourne 12-Mar-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Technology Sydney 06-May-1996
Trained Primary Teachers Certificate Toorak Teachers College 31-Dec-1969
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment University of Melbourne 09-Dec-2005

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Fellow, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 07-Dec-2007

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Administration (FACEA) 15-Dec-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Ludwig: My pedagogical part
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 781 - 783
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Holistic Competence: Putting Judgements First
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Asia Pacific Education Review
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-30
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Diversity and opportunism: How educational policies can emerge from local judgements
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Education and Multicultural Understanding: INPE 11th Biennial Conference
    Conference Publication: International Network of Philosophers of Education 11th Biennial Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 63-75
    Publisher: International Network of Philosophers of Education(Kyoto)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Emphatically education!
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 2
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  • Poverty in the lecture theatre
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 4
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Lost in the forest - Finding the light: Research students and their creativity
    Year: 2007
    Event name: PESA Conference 2007. Creativity, Enterprise and Policy - New Directions in Education
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 PESA Conference
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia(Melbourne)
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  • Reflections on teaching in English in Asia: A cosmopolitan analysis
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning Conference. The times they are a-changing': Researching transitions in lifelong learning
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 4th Annual CRLL International Conference
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning(Stirling)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Constructing Professionals' Employabilities:Conditions for Accomplishment
    Year: 2006
    Book: Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability
    Publisher: Springer(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Young Doctors as Teachers: Understanding their Motivations and Needs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Clinical Teacher
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-52
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Useful Theory of Agency at Work
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Philosophical Perspectives on Educational Practice in the 21st Century
    Conference Publication: Philosophical Perspectives on Educational Practice in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Network of Philosophers of Education 10th Biennial Conference
    Page numbers: 42-52
    Publisher: Allied Newspapers Ltd.(Valletta)
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  • Spinoza, Selfhood and The Australian Taxation Office:'Where There's A Will...There's A Reason'
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Politics, Business and Education:the Aims of Education in the Twenty-First Century: 35th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
    Conference Publication: Politica, Business and Education: The aims of education in the 21st century: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
    Page numbers: 4-15
    Publisher: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia(Sydney)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Young doctors as teachers: understanding their motivations and needs


    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Clinical Teacher
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-4
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  • Confronting violence at school
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Diverse expereiences impact on quality of learning
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Do we really respect diversity?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • No title
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Paying the piper and calling the tune
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • The Challenge of How to Make Teaching More Satisfying
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • The impact of public policy choices on school leaders
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • The power of good connections
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Being human, and human beings: agency at work
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 34th Annual PESA Conference
    Conference Publication: Critical thinking and learning: vbalues, concepts and issues
    Page numbers: 26 - 34
    Publisher: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia(Melbourne)
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  • Practices and contigent identities: A case study of casual university teachers
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th International Conference on Researching Work & Learning
    Conference Publication: Researching Work and Learning
    Page numbers: 6650-6652
    Publisher: University of Technology Sydney Press(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Performing Identities: A New Focus on Embodied Adult Learning
    Year: 2004
    Book: Adult Education @ 21st Century
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Perceptions of Professional Identity: A story from paediatrics


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Studies in Continuing Education
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 195-208
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  • Editors Note: 9 July
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:11
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Editors Note: April
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:7
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Editors Note: March
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:5
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Editors Note: May
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:9
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Embodied Competence and Generic Skill: The emergence of inferential understanding
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 497 - 508
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Learning for/at work: Somali women 'doing it for themselves'
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Workplace Learning - Employee Counselling Today
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1/2
    Page numbers: 75-82
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  • No title
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:3
    Issue: 27 Feb 2004
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Older, Wiser and Smarter!
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 13:12
    Page numbers: 3
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Perceptions of professional identity: a story of paediatrics
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Studies in Continuing Education
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 195 - 208
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Can Things Act? Distributed Agency and Practical Judgements
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
    Conference Publication: Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britiain2004 Conference Programme and Paper
    Volume: online
    Issue: online
    Page numbers: 49
    Publisher: Institute of Education, University of London(London)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Just What is Vocational?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 12:15
    Issue: 29 August 2003
    Page numbers: 2
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Rejoinder: Learning from Work: Can Kand do?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 123-127
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Life, Work and LearningPractice in postmodernity
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Focus on Disengaged Students
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:1
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Focus on School Leadership
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:15
    Issue: 30 August 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Focus on School Safety
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:17
    Issue: 27 September 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Grouping Learners: Risky Business
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:9
    Issue: 7 June 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Just-in-time training: techne meets phronesis
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Workplace Learning - Employee Counselling Today
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 7 & 8
    Page numbers: 332 - 339
    Publisher: Emerald
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  • Principals on the Frontline
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:11
    Issue: 5 July 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • Quality of Teaching and Learning
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:13
    Issue: 2 August 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • The Importance of Diverse Pathways
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:7
    Issue: 10 May 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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  • The Public Discussion of Education
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Directions in Education
    Volume: 11:5
    Issue: 5 April 2002
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Administration(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Diversity, Generic Skills and Creativity: Towards a Productive Pedagogy
    Year: 2002
    Event name: TLHE Symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Page numbers: 315 - 320
    Publisher: National University of Singapore
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  • Managing tertiary education: Going private; staying public?
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Enhancing Business and Government Capabilities: Research, Knowledge and Practice
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th ANZAM Conference
    Page numbers: 1000
    Publisher: LaTrobe University(Melbourne)
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  • The Changing Expectations of University Students and the Implications for Learning
    Year: 2002
    Event name: TLHE Symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Second Symposium on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Page numbers: 309 - 314
    Publisher: National University of Singapore
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Reports

  • Enhancing the Learning and Employability of Graduates: The Role of Generic Skills
    Year: 2002
    Customer: Business/Higher Education Round Table
    Publisher: Business/Higher Education Round Table(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Boundaryless behaviour, and knowledge as the ultimate ready-made
    Year: 2001
    Book: Digital Developments in Higher EducationTheory and Practice
    Publisher: Taylor Graham Publishing(Cambridge)
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  • Hot Actionat Work: A Different Understanding of "Understanding"
    Year: 2001
    Book: Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning through Work
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass(San Francisco)
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Journal Articles

  • Learning in the Workplace: Strategies for Effective Practice
    Year: 2001
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  • Mainstraming diversity in Australia's schools: problematizing the neo-liberal "third way"
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Journal of Educational Research
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 249-349
    Publisher: Pergamon(Los Angeles)
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  • Ontological performance: Bodies, identities and learning
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Studies in the Education of Adults
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 35 - 48
    Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education(Leicester)
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  • Renewing Democracy from Within
    Year: 2001
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 2
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  • The Company We Keep!
    Year: 2001
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 4
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  • Universities in Crisis
    Year: 2001
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 2
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  • Workplace Learning as Postmodernist Enactment: a model from dementia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Vocational Education and Training
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 141 - 158
    Publisher: Triangle Journals
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Assessment and the Worker as Productive Learner
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 2nd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning
    Conference Publication: 2nd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning
    Page numbers: 114 - 122
    Publisher: University of Calgary(Calgary)
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  • Just-In-Time Training: Techne meets Phronesis
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 2nd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning
    Conference Publication: 2nd International Conference on Researching Work and LearningConference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 312 - 320
    Publisher: University of Calgary(Calgary)
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Reports

  • Engaging Older Learners
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Adult Community and Further Education Board
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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