Completed theses

Conferred in 2012

Name Degree conferred Thesis title Supervisor Keywords

Alemayehu, Tesfaye

DSW

Social exclusion and vulnerability across time and place: settlement experiences of humanitarian entrants from sub-Sahara Africa now living in Sydney

Dr Margot Rawsthorne

– community development

Bedford, Sarah

MPhil

A critical examination of race in business English coursebooks

Professor Brian Paltridge

– English for business purposes

Cai, Hongxing

PhD

Deploying the Chinese knowledge diaspora in Chinese research universities: a case study of the 111 project

Professor Anthony Welch

 

Conyer, Bryan

PhD

Effecting pluralism: three case studies of Jewish community schools in Australia

Professor Anthony Welch

– educational history
– sociology and philosophy

Eden, Danielle

MEd(Res)

A gesamtkunstwerk for kindergarten: improving musical confidence in an Early Stage 1 classroom

Dr Robyn Gibson

 

Ellis, Neville

PhD

Teachers' experiences as practitioner researchers in secondary schools: a comparative study of Singapore and NSW

Professor Derrick Armstrong

– secondary schools in Singapore

Fleming, Josephine

PhD

Charting the developmental periphery: an exploration of three university continuing and professional educational units

Professor Anthony Welch

– comparative education
– higher education
– university pathways
– knowledge and power
– professional education

Fraser, Andrew

PhD

Just education: teachers' voices on social justice, advantage and disadvantage

Professor Raewyn Connell

– qualitative research methodology
– sociology of education
– teacher work

Girdwood, John

PhD

Rethinking the World Bank and its knowledge policy regime: towards an analytics of governmentality perspective

Professor Gabrielle Meagher

– international and comparative education

Green, Annette

PhD

Bridging two worlds: from industry to schools

Professor Robyn Ewing

– teacher education
– teacher socialisation
– alternative pathways to teaching

Herrett, Maree

PhD

Gender divides: gender equity policy in Australian education 1975–2010

Professor Raewyn Connell

 

Hodson, Linda

PhD

The art of the possible: relationships in teaching and learning

Professor Robyn Ewing

 

Hyde, Sarah

 

Academic regulation and the transformation of learning and participation in a problem-based learning medical program

Associate Professor Richard Walker

– sociocultural theory
– higher education
– medical students
– PBL; transfer

Jung, Yong Moon

PhD

Study of ideas of poverty and inequality in South Korea

Dr Ruth Phillips

 

Li, Rong

MEd(Res)

An integrative analysis on Chinese Year 10 high school students' mathematics interest, achievement: goals and achievement

Associate Professor Richard Walker

– Chinese high school students
– maths interest

Maher, Elizabeth

EdD

Promoting social responsiveness within a developmental relationship-based approach with primary caregivers and young children with autism

Dr Susan Colmar

 

Matheson, Carolina

MEd(Res)

Transfer of learning in professional development programs for university teachers: an exploratory study of transitions between teacher development and teacher practice

Associate Professor Richard Walker

 

McCormick, Alexandra

PhD

Discourse of development and inequality: education for all in South-East Asian and South Pacific aid-receiving nations

Dr Ruth Phillips

– social policy

McGeoch, Kirsty

PhD

Adventures with selves: an inquiry into digital storytelling for language education

Professor Robyn Ewing

– educational technology
– new media

McGraw, Kelli

PhD

Innovation and change in the 1999 NSW HSC English syllabus: challenges and problems

Professor Peter Freebody

 

Sargent, Jason

PhD

Towards resolving the refugee camp as campus paradox: exploring complexities in attainment of higher education by refugees on the Thai-Burma border

Dr Elizabeth Cassity

– refugee education
– social capital
– communities of practice
– blended learning

Shang, Ying

MEd(Res)

Facing an uncertain future: a theory-driven and CIPP evaluation of the adult English program in XISU

Dr Kevin Laws

– adult education
– program evaluation

Smith, Louisa

PhD

Trading gender: the embodiment and gender contradictions of women in the male-dominated industries of skilled manual trades and information technology (IT)

Professor Raewyn Connell

– labour progresses
– workplaces; life history
– gender and policy
– sexuality and sexual identity

Stephens, Harry

EdD

Reconstruction of the familiar: a history of Our Lady of Lebanon College, Harris Park, NSW, between 1972 and 2008

Associate Professor Craig Campbell

 

Stevenson, Miriam

PhD

Voices for change: exploring aspects of social citizenship alongside young adults who have Down Syndrome

Professor Barbara Fawcett

 

Szambowski, Dominic

PhD

Developing intercultural sensitivity for the global hospitality industry: towards the creation of a hospitality intercultural sensitizer, the 'tailored-occupational' approach to intercultural sensitizers

Dr Kevin Laws

– culture assimilator
– intercultural sensitiser
– hospitality training

Tearle, Kerri

MEd(Res)

Is that normal? A comparative analysis of learning support policy in NSW and New Zealand

Dr Ilektra Spandagou

 

Zhang, Zuocheng

PhD

Business English education in China and the construction of professional identities

Professor Brian Paltridge

 

A hard copy of the above theses can be viewed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, Fisher Library.


Theses completed in other years

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