Completed theses

Conferred in 2010

Name	Degree awarded	Thesis title	Supervisor	Keywords
Aharonov,Yosef	PhD	The educational expatriate in a diaspora community: the case of the Israeli shaliach in Australia.	Professor Wing On Lee	– Jewish educators – aliens – Jews – migrations – Jewish diaspora – Australia
Chown, Peter Henry	PhD	W. F. Connell and education: in the steps of a 'quiet' radical.	Professor Geoffrey Sherington	– William Fraser Connell – education – philosophy – attitudes – Australia
Coleman, Claire Marie	MEd(Res)	Engaging dramatically: a reflective practitioner case study into whether the use of process drama to teach social studies engages year 10 Pasifija boys.	Associate Professor Michael Anderson	– education – New Zealand – philosophy – drama in education – study and teaching of drama
Condoleon, Manuel	MEd(Res)	Enterprise education within secondary school language teaching.	Associate Professor Lesley Harbon	– education – philosophy – curricula – training of language teachers – language policy – study and teaching of language and languages – secondary education – Australia
Costello, Mayet Anne	PhD	Australia says no?: policy, politics and the Australian government's approach to male violence against women during the Howard years (1996-2007).	Dr Lesley Laing	– violence in men – government policy – abuse of women – politics and government in 1996 – Australia
Dunn (aka Williams), Irene Mary	PhD	Ana's underground grottos: pro-anorexia peer groups on the internet.	Professor Raewyn Connell	– eating disorders – anorexia nervosa – body image in women – mass media – moral and ethical aspects
Eadie, Edward Norman	MEd(Res)	Educational themes and contexts for reducing suffering inflicted by humans on animals. Click here to view the abstract.	Dr Jim Mackenzie	– animal welfare – moral and ethical aspects – animal rights – humane education
Farooqui, Sabrin	PhD	The new textbook for teaching English language in secondary education in Bangladesh: teachers' practices and training.	Dr Lillian Merritt	– study and teaching of the English language – Bangladesh – Bangladeshi – textbooks for foreign speakers of English
Greenland, Samuel John	MEd(Res)	Assessing student performance in classroom debates: a valid and unbiased measurement.	Professor Murray Print	– debates and debating – studying and teaching English language in secondary education – foreign speakers
Guy, Judith Helen	PhD	The International Baccalaureate in India: a study of privatisation in a changing educational context. Click here to view the abstract.	Associate Professor Nigel Bagnall	– International Baccalaureate Organisation Education – India – philosophy
Howard, Amanda Jane	PhD	Language, practice and power: the emergence of asset based community development (ABCD) on the Central Coast of New South Wales.	Dr Margot Rawsthorne	– community development – Central Coast, New South Wales – older people – social conditions – social networks – social participation
Huang, Amy Lee	DSW	Illuminating power and complexity in sex work: building knowledge for social work.	Dr Ruth Phillips	– sex-oriented business – Sydney, New South Wales – social aspects – prostitution – social conditions
Jia, Xuelai	PhD	Perceptions, practices and contexts: 'self' construction and transformation of English teachers from a north-eastern Chinese university.	Professor Hui Zhong Shen	– study and teaching of English language – Chinese speakers – studying and teaching in China – social aspects
Liu, Jianxin	PhD	The blog as genre and performance: an analysis of Chinese A-list personal blogs.	Professor Brian Paltridge	– blogs – social aspects – China – performance – psychological aspects
Loeffel, Robert David Wilhelm	MEd(Res)	Textbook teaching and the Third Reich: Changing approaches in three German states, 1988-2008.	Associate Professor Timothy Allender
Lü, Nan	MSW	Views from adulthood: a qualitative study of left-behind children in rural east China.	Associate Professor Fran Waugh	– families in China – parent and child – child rearing – social conditions in the 20th century – China
Parker, Philip D	PhD	Teachers' workplace well-being: an exploration of a process model of goal orientation, coping behaviour, engagement, and burnout.	Professor Andrew Martin	– teacher effectiveness – teachers – job satisfaction – social conditions – psychological aspects
Pattapong, Kamlaitip	PhD	Willingness to communicate in a second language: a qualitative study of issues affecting Thai EFL learners from students' and teachers' point of view.	Associate Professor Richard Walker	– study and teaching English language – Thai speakers – Thailand – communication and education
Peng, Hua	EdD	Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: a communities of practice perspective.	Professor Brian Paltridge	– sociolinguistics – study and teaching of academic writing – Chinese speakers – social aspects – case studies
Pinnington-Wilson, Lynda	EdD	How mid-career professionals experience the transition from early career teacher to accomplished practitioner.	Associate Professor Jackie Manuel	– teaching – Australia – education and state – research education
Pressick-Kilborn, Kimberley	PhD	Towards a sociocultural theory of interest development.	Associate Professor Richard Walker	– philosophy of education – cross-cultural studies – Australia – curricula
Rhodes, David Blair	PhD	'Coming-out' of the margins: using young adult literature in English classrooms to combat homophobia and heterosexism.	Associate Professor Jackie Manuel	– study and teaching English language in secondary education – social aspects – young adult fiction – homosexuality in literature
Timerman, Fernanda	MEd(Red)	Factors associated with body image concerns among Australian male and female children in the transition from primary to secondary school.	Associate Professor Jennifer O'Dea	– school children – attitudes – evaluation – Australia – conduct of life – body image – social aspects – attitude change in children
Towers, Lorraine	PhD	Formal schooling, identity and resistance in Ethiopia.	Professor Phillip Jones	– education in Ethiopia – secondary education – evaluation – social aspects
Wikramanayake, Damaris Helene	PhD	An analysis of national education policy formulation in Sri Lanka: the role of historical legacy, policy environments, donors and economic globalisation.	Professor Phillip Jones	– education in Sri Lanka – education and state
Wright, Gloria Sunnie Isable	PhD	The medicalization of behaviour in children diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).	Professor Trevor Parmenter	– attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder – diagnosis – treatment
Zhang, Xingkui	PhD	Studies of men and masculinities in contemporary China.	Professor Raewyn Connell	– men in China – masculinity
Zhao, Yan Bing	EdD	Developing English literacy via a literary text-based approach in a Chinese elementary EFL classroom.	Professor Hui Zhong Shen	– study and teaching English language – China – foreign speakers – primary education
Zuo, Wen Jing	PhD	Uses of discourse markers in a Chinese English TV show: a comparative analysis.	Professor Hui Zhong Shen	– discourse markers – variation of English language – China – foreign speakers – study and teaching of English language – Chinese speakers

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