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DR DIANNE MULCAHY



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=1944
Work: 8344 8656
Fax: 8344 8643
Building: Alice Hoy Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Sociology of education; Educational policy, administration and management; Educational policy; Policy sociology Australia
Program evaluation; Education policy; Program evaluation; Vocational learning Australia
Secondary education; Teacher education: Secondary; Pedagogy and curriculum e.g. competency-based training Australia
Research methods; Vocational education and training; Postmodern research methods and approaches; Problem-based learning Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Leeds Research
United Kingdom University of London Research
United Kingdom The University of Stirling Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne
Master of Arts University of Melbourne
Master of Education University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Strengthening Standards of Teaching through Linking Standards and Teacher Learning: The Development of Professional Standards for Teaching School Geography Chief Investigator VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF TEACHING,
GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS ASSOC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007

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

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Towards a new approach to developing professional teaching standards: Enacting relations of responsibility in educational research
    Year: 2009
    Event name: AARE 2008 International Education Research Conference
    Conference Publication: AARE 2008 Conference Papers Collection
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Australian Association for Research in Education(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Embodied Practices: Enacting Experiential Learning In Classroom And Community Settings


    Year: 2008
    Event name: ICEL 2008: Identity of Experience: Challenges for experiential learning.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Experiential Learning
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: University of Technology Sydney Press
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Managing spaces: (Re)working relations of strategy and spatiality in education
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Studies in Continuing Education
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 143-162
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  • The development of professional standards for teaching school geography
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Curriculum Leadership
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1-3
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Mobile pedagogies: Spatially producing the learner-teacher


    Year: 2007
    Event name: Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Adelaide, 2006
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Adelaide, 2006
    Page numbers: 1-16
    Publisher: Australian Association for Research in Education(Melbourne)
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  • Performing curriculum change in school and teacher education: Thinking curriculum differently
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Curriculum Centre Stage: Inclusivity, Creativity and Diversity
    Conference Publication: ACSA 2007 Biennial Conference. Curriculum Centre Stage: Inclusivity, Creativity and Diversity
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Australian Curriculum Studies Association(Canberra)
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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

  • The salience of space for pedagogy and identity in teacher education: Problem-based learning as a case in point
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Pedagogy, Culture and Society
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 55-69
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Between work and learning: on pedagogic practice and interstitial space
    Year: 2005
    Event name: RWL4 2005: Fourth International Conference on Researching Work and Learning: Challenges for integrating work and learning
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Researching Work and Learning: Challenges for integrating work and learning
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: OVAL Research, University of Technology Sydney(Sydney)
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  • Organising identities in post-compulsory education: A topological perspective
    Year: 2005
    Event name: AARE 2004 Conference"Doing the public good'
    Conference Publication: AARA 2004 Conference Papers
    Issue: CD and web
    Page numbers: 20
    Publisher: Professional Resources Services(Melbourne)
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  • Re-Constructing Relations of Teacher Education and Professional Practice: Boundary Pedagogy and Practitioners at Work.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Teacher Education: Local and Global
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 33rd Annual Australian Teacher Education Association Conference
    Page numbers: 318 - 326
    Publisher: Griffith University(Griffith)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Making Managers within Post-Compulsory Education: policy, performativity and practice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Research in Post-Compulsory Education
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 183 - 202
    Publisher: Triangle Journals
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Co-constructing spaces and selves: Probelem-based learning and the beginning teacher
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Making Spaces: Regenerating the Profession
    Conference Publication: Making Spaces: Regenerating the Profession
    Page numbers: 21 - 28
    Publisher: Australian Teachers Education Association
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Making managers in Vocational Education and Training: policy technologies at work
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The 11th Annual International Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Asdsociation
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Asdsociation
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 196 - 203
    Publisher: Australian Academic Press(Brisbane)
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  • Teacher standards and professionalism in TAFE: Prospects, possibilities and pitfalls
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Changing face of VET
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th annual AVETRA Conference 2003
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: AVETRA (Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Associat(Sydney)
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Reports

  • Leadership and management in vocational education and training
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
    Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research(Adelaide)
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  • Towards the development of standards of professional practice for the Victorian TAFE teaching workforce: Final project report
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Office of Training and Tertiary Education, Victorian Department of Education and Training
    Publisher: Department of Education and Training(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • 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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  • New Management in VET: Working Commerce and Community Together?
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 5th Annual conference of the Australian VET Research Association (AVETRA)
    Conference Publication: Making a World of Difference?Innovation, Internationalisation, New Technologies and VET
    Volume: 1
    Issue: www.avetra.org.au
    Page numbers: 52
    Publisher: Monash University(Clayton)
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A collaborative inter-disciplinary approach to the evaluation of the clinicians health channel
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Meeting at the Crossroads The 18th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings Meeting at the Crossroads The 18th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
    Page numbers: 335-344
    Publisher: Biomedical Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Unravelling aspects of the Frontline Management Initiative
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) Conference
    Conference Publication: Research to Reality: Putting VET Research To Work. Proceedings of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) Conference
    Page numbers: 543-551
    Publisher: AVETRA (Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Associat(Sydney)
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