Education

You are here: Education - Bendigo: Home > Staff

Faculty of Education, Bendigo

Staff Profile

Dr Michael Faulkner
T.P.T.C. Bendigo, B.A., B.Ed. Monash, M.Ed. Melbourne, Ph.D. Deakin MAPS

Lecturer, Gifted Education and Special Learning Needs Education

Room/Location: 3.15B Education
Ph: 5444 7331
Fx: 5444 7800
Email: m.faulkner@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Areas

• Inclusive and special education
• Child development, families, and schooling
• Applied educational psychology
• Gifted Education

Research Interests

• The school psychology profession
• Action research in education for improvement and change
• Regional and rural education provision for diverse learners
• Giftedness
• Temperament and learning styles in children

Recent Publications

Faulkner M. (2007) 'School psychologists or psychologists in schools ?' In-Psych 29(4), 10-13, Melbourne, The Australian Psychological Society Limited.

Faulkner M. (2007) 'School psychology in Australia' in The Handbook of International School Psychology edited by S. Jimerson, T. Oakland, & P. Farrell, California, SAGE Books, 15-28

Oakland, T., Mpofu, E., Gregoire, G., & Faulkner, M. (2007). An exploration of learning disabilities in four countries: Implications for test development and use in developing countries. International Journal of Testing, 7(1), 53-69.

Faulkner, M. (2006). 'Valuing school psychology in education: The National Educational School Psychology Service, in the Republic of Ireland', Australian Guidance and Counselling Association Newsletter, December, 34-37

Faulkner M. & Lyons P.(2006) 'The La Trobe University Able Learner's Enrichment Program: An innovation in regional Australia, 'The Rising Tides' National Gifted & Talented Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 3- 5th August, 60-64. Refereed paper, published as collected conference papers

Oakland, T., Faulkner  M., and  Annan  M.  (2005) 'School psychology in four English speaking countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States', in the Comprehensive Handbook of Multi cultural School Psychology, edited by Craig Frisby and Cecil Reynolds, John Wiley and Sons, New York

Oakland, T., Faulkner, M. & Bassett K., (2004) Temperament styles of children from Australia and the United States, The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Vol. 19 No 1 35-51

Faulkner, M. (2002) 'Temperament in Context: The 'Student Styles Questionnaire' as a measure of temperament' Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol. 12 No. 1

Faulkner,  M. (2000) 'J. R. McLeod: An Innovating School Psychologist in Victoria: An Historical Reflection' Melbourne Studies in Education May 2000

Recent Presentations

'Trauma Transition and Healing: Refugees in Australia' with Sheree McDonald. Workshop to be presented at the 29th Annual International School Psychology Colloquium, Tempare, Finland, 24- 29 July 2007

'The school as challenge for psychologists'. Workshop to be presented at the 11th National Conference of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association, Freemantle February 29, 2008 ledge and networks for able learners in regional Australia', The 28th International School Psychology Association Colloquium, Hangzchou, China. July 15-19, 2006

'The importance of developing and supporting the talents of gifted and talented children', The Australian Guidance and Counselling Association 10th National Conference, Adelaide , 29 September-1 October 2005

'Temperament, learning styles and schooling :The Student Styles Questionnaire',  Research paper presented to the Australian Association for Psychological Type National Conference, Ballarat, 17-19 September 2004

'Temperament and giftedness in primary school children : A study in rural Australia'. 15th World Conference of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Adelaide, 1-5 August 2003

Associations

• Australian Psychologicial Society (APS)
• Australian Guidance and Counselling Association, (AGCA)
• International School Psychology Association (ISPA)