Staff profile

Dr Damon Cartledge

Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean (International)

Faculty of Education

Office 518, SE6 - Education 1, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BTeach (with distinction), ADipAppMus, MEd (with distinction), DipTrgSys, EdD

Area of study

Educational Studies

Brief profile

Dr Cartledge is Senior Lecturer in Vocational, Design and Technology Education programs, and is the Associate Dean (International). He also coordinates the Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) at the Melbourne campus. 

Damon’s professional experience includes work in Vocational Education & Training (VET), music performance, music education, educational technology, leadership and management, training development and educational design. These experiences have been drawn from almost 30 years of service in public sector organisations, including the Australian Defence Force, TAFE Institutes and Universities. Work as a lecturer and researcher includes numerous ‘by invitation’ engagements at universities, commissions and professional schools in Australia, UK, USA, Canada and Malaysia; including periods as a Visiting Professor to the University of York in the UK and the University of Technology Malaysia. 

Recent work has seen Damon engaged in a broader range of teaching contexts including educational design, teaching method, technology in education, educational leadership and management and qualitative research strategies. Damon's research includes the development of professional identity in organisations, status of the VET professional, STEM research and issues in technical education. Damon maintains a strong research focus on qualitative research methods, especially on the researcher as Bricoleur. Adding to his diversity of research interests and context, recent student completions and current research supervision include candidates from Australia, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe.  

Teaching units

EDU4VM1 - VET Teaching Method

EDU4MTA - Method of Teaching (Adult)

EDU4CDD - Curriculum Development & Design

EDU4LNP - Literacy & Numeracy for Professional Educators 

EDU5RME - Research Methods in Education (contributing lecturer)

EDU4UL - Understanding Learning (contributing lecturer)

EDU4CCE - Changing Contexts of Education (contributing lecturer)

Consulting

Vocational Education

Recent publications

Cartledge, D. (2011) Presentation: Conversations on technical education: some rhetoric and realities. Invited speaker National Work-Based Learning Forum – Higher Education. Informa Australia, Melbourne,Australia, 23 Nov 2011.

Cartledge, D. (2011) TVE voices for sustainable economies – are we really listening? Proceedings: 2011 Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association national conference – Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 27-29 Apr 2011.

Brown, M. & Cartledge, D. (2011) Tracking green skills for a low carbon economy. Proceedings: 2011 Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association national conference – Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 27-29 Apr 2011.

Cartledge, D. (2010) STEM – a technical renaissance? Proceedings: 2010 Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics STEM International Conference – Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 25-27 Nov 2010.

Cartledge, D. (2010) Presentation: TVET – are we keeping UNESCO’s promises? Invited speaker: Centre of Excellence for Learner Diversity, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25 Feb 2010.

Cartledge, D. (2010) Presentation: Researching TVET – an overview of Australian frameworks? Invited speaker: Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 12 Feb 2009.

Cartledge, D. (2009) Presentation: VET systems – an overview of Australian frameworks. Invited speaker: Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 12 Feb 2009. 

Cartledge, D. & Watson, M. (2008) Creating place: Design eduaction as Vocational Education & Training.  Adelaide:NCVER

Cartledge, D. (2004). The Bricoleur’s Quilt: Risks for the insider-researcher. In, Rushbrook, P. & Whiteford, G. (Eds) Beyond your comfort zone. Canberra: RIPPLE.

Cartledge, D. (2002) The paradox of paradigm: what they didn’t tell you about doing research. In P. Green (Ed) Slices of life: Qualitative research methods Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.

Cartledge, D. (2002) Developing professionals for a changing world of work. Unpublished EdD Thesis. Melbourne: RMIT University.

Cartledge, D. (2002) The data matrix: a practical application (Videotape). In, M. Brown (Producer) Research methods series: Research by Project. Melbourne: RMITTV.

Robertson, I. and Cartledge, D. (2002) Organisational change using an on-line distributed learning support system. Conference proceedings 2002 conference of the Australian Society for Educational Technology (ASET) Melbourne, Australia.

Robertson, I. and Cartledge, D. (2002) Never mind the depth, feel the width. Proceedings 2002 flexible learning conference. Melbourne, Australia.

Cartledge, D. (2000) Military Musicians: the search for professional identity (Seminar paper) Commission report of the 24th World Congress of the International Society for Music Education - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ISME.

Cartledge, D. (2000) Military Musicians: A paradox of artistic endeavour? Proceedings of the 2000 International Commission for the Education of Professional Musicians. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. ISME.

Bannister, R. and Cartledge, D. (1999) New Musicians in an Old Tradition. Research Studies in Music Education (12) 58-67.

Cartledge, D. (1999) The five axioms of constructivist inquiry: a contextual application RMIT University post-graduate research conference. RMIT University.