Journal articles

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Digital technology in the visual arts classroom: an [un]easy partnership (with Alexandra Cutcher and Susan Wilks), Studies in Art Education (2012)

This article scrutinizes the dichotomy of the uneasy and easy partnerships that exist between digital...

 

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Going on to uni? Access and participation in university for students from backgrounds of disadvantage (with Katie Wilson), Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management (2012)

This article reports on a research project that investigated the aspirations of primary and secondary...

 

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Journeying together: understanding the process of teacher change and the impacts on student learning (with Jake Madden, Maria Maione, Naomi Loader, and Ngaire Robinson), International Studies in Educational Administration (2012)
 

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Whisper down the line: creating new spaces for reflection and dialogue around learning journeys between students, teachers and parents (with M Scott), Australian Educational Leader (2012)

This research was conducted as part of the Inhouse Inquiry project (Thornton, Phelps & Graham,...

 

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Child-friendly cities: a place for active citizenship in geographical and environmental education, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2010)

This research was designed to investigate innovative practices associated with child-friendly cities initiatives in the...

 

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Putting the ‘active’ back into civics and citizenship education in NSW, Geography Bulletin (2009)
 

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Blinded by technology, Independent Education (2008)

Technology - how should teachers be using it? When should they be using it? Where...

 

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Creating child friendly cities - innovations for secondary geography curriculum, PEEL Seeds (2008)

In May/June of this year I undertook a study tour to the UK and Italy....

 

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Rome – The ’Eternal City’: a case study of urban dynamics, Geography Bulletin (2008)
 

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A scaffold for the research action plan, Geography Bulletin (2007)
 

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Case study of an ecosystem at risk – mangroves on the mid north coast of NSW (with R Taffs), Geography Bulletin (2007)
 

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Dangerous games in the classroom : reconciling learning gain with measurement of achievement, Independent Education (2007)

The author considers, from a practitioner perspective, what Australia's obsession with measurement means in the...

 

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Get your topic? It’s a lucky dip, PEELSeeds (2007)

On small slips of paper I write down a topic relevant to the unit we...

 

Ideas in student research in the Social Sciences, PEELSeeds (2007)

This workshop was run as a discussion session at the 2007 PEEL conference in which...

 

Book chapters

Twenty-first century learning in the humanities (with Susan Wilks), Issues in contemporary teaching (2011)

This chapter examines five elements associated with the knowledge base of the humanities, namely, the...

 

Investigating the physical environment: Intertidal wetlands, Keys to fieldwork: Essential skills and tools (2008)
 

Editorials, book reviews, columns, interviews ...

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A review of “Child space: an anthropological exploration of young people's use of space”, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2009)
 

Reports, reviews

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Children, young people and social inclusion: mobilising to address disadvantage on the NSW North Coast: a literature review (with Katie Wilson), Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) (2010)

This review examines the literature in the context of a research project that sets out...