Staff profile

Dr Ramon Lewis (Professor)

Chair:Ethics Committee

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Education - Melbourne (Bundoora)

Education 2 Building, Room 323, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc, DipEd, BEd, PhD (Monash),

Area of study

Primary teaching
Secondary teaching

Teaching units

EDU4CSD: Student Responsibility and Classroom Management

EDU5CPL: Creating Productive Learning Environments

EDU5QRM: Advanced Research Methods in Education

 

Recent publications

http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository?query=ramon+lewis

Books.

Lewis, R. (2008). The developmental management approach to classroom behaviour: Responding to individual needs. Melbourne: ACER Press.

Lewis, R. (2009) Understanding Pupil Behaviour, Routledge, NY.

Frydenberg. E & Lewis. R. (2011). The Adolescent Coping Scale -2. A. C. E. R. Melbourne

Book Chapters

Lewis, R. (2011). Developmental Classroom Management. in D. Hopkins, J. Munro & W .Craig (Eds) . Powerful Learning - A strategy for system reform. A. C. E. R. Melbourne.

Lewis, R. & Riley, P.  & Brew. C. (2010) Why did you do that? Teachers explain the use of legal aggression in the classroom  Teaching and Teacher Education. 2, 957-964

Lewis, R. & Riley, P. (2009). Teacher misbehaviour. In L. J.Saha & A. G. Dworkin (Eds.), The International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching (pp. 417-431). Norwell, MA: Springer.

Lewis, R. & McCann, P. (2009). Teaching "at Risk" Students: Meeting Their Needs. In L. J. Saha & A.G. Dworkin (Eds.). The international handbook of research on teachers and teaching (pp. 895-905). Norwell, MA, USA: Springer.

Lewis, R. (2006). Classroom Discipline in Australia. In C. Evertson and C. S. Weinstein (Eds). International Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues. N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,  pp. 1193-1124.

Lewis, R., & Frydenberg. E. (2004). Thriving, surviving or going under: which coping strategies relate to which outcomes? In E. Frydenberg (Ed.) Thriving, surviving or going under: Coping with everyday lives. Series, Research on Stress and Coping in Education.Greenwich: Information Age Publishing. Connecticut, US.

Lewis, R., & Frydenberg. E. (2004). Students' self-evaluations of their coping: How well do they do it? In E. Frydenberg (Ed.) Thriving, surviving or going under: Coping with everyday lives. Series, Research on Stress and Coping in Education. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing. Connecticut, US.

Journal articles

 Roache. J. E., & Lewis. R. (2011).The carrot, the stick, or the relationship: What are the effective disciplinary strategies? European Journal of Teacher Education, 34(2), 233–248. 

Riley, P, Lewis, R., & Brew. C. (2010). Why did you do that? Teachers explain the use of legal aggression in the classroom Teaching and Teacher Education. 2, 957-964.

Frydenberg. E., & Lewis. R. (2009). Relationships among well-being, avoidant coping, and active coping in a large sample of Australian adolescents. Psychological Reports 104, 745-758.

Frydenberg. E., & Lewis. R. (2009). The relationship between problem-solving efficacy and and coping among Australian adolescents. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 37, 51-64.

Romi, S., Lewis, R., & Katz, Y. (2009). Student responsibility and classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel. Compare 39, 4,439-452.

Lewis, R & Burman, E. (2008) Providing for student voice in classroom management. International Journal of Inclusive Education, Vol. 12(2) March 2008: 151-167.

Lewis, R., Romi. S., Xing, Q, & Katz, Y. A. (2008) Student reactions to teachers' classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(3): 715-724.

Lewis, R., & Frydenberg, E. (2007). Adolescent problem solving efficacy and coping strategy usage in a population of Australian Adolescents. In Gates, G. (Ed.) Research on Stress and Coping in Education (Volume IV).

Lewis, R., Romi. S., Xing, Q., & Katz, Y. (2005). A comparison of teachers' classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel. Teaching and Teacher Education, 21 (2005), 729-741.

Frydenberg. E., Lewis, R., Bugalski, K., Cotta, A. McCarthy, C., Luscombe-Smith, N. & Poole. C. (2004). Prevention is better than cure. Educational Psychology in Practice, 20, (2). 117-133. Frydenberg.

(with E. Frydenberg ). (2004). Adolescents least able to cope: How do they respond to their stresses? British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 32, (1), 25-38.

Selected Coping Research

(with E. Frydenberg ) Manual: The Adolescent Coping Scale. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1993.

(with Frydenberg, E.) The Adolescent Coping Scale: Multiple forms and applications of a self report inventory in a counseling and research context. European Journal of Psychological Assessment,12 (3),216-227.1996

(with E. Frydenberg ) The Coping Scale for Adults. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1997.

(with Frydenberg, E.) Teaching Coping to Adolescents: When and to Whom? American Educational Research Journal, 37 (3),727-746. 2000

(With E. Frydenberg) Concomitants of failure to cope: What we should teach adolescents about coping. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 72, 419-431. 2002

Selected Classroom Management Research

Teachers coping with the stress of classoom discipline. Social Psychology of Education. 3, 1-17. 1999.

Discipline in Schools. In L. J. Saha (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Sociology in Education : 404-411 .Oxford UK. 1997.

The Discipline Dilemma.(2nd Ed.) The Australian Council for Educational Research. Melbourne. 1997.

Preparing Students for Democratic Citizenship: Codes of conduct in Victoria's Schools of the future. Educational Research and Evaluation. Educational Research and Evaluation, 5(1):41-61. 1999.

Classroom Discipline and Student Responsibility: the students' view. Teaching and Teacher Education. 17. 307-319. 2001.

Lewis, R., Romi, S., Xing, Q., & Katz, Y. A comparison of teachers' classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel. Teaching and Teacher Education. 21, 29-741. 2005.

Lewis, R. (2006) Classroom Discipline in Australia. In C. Evertson and C. S. Weinstein (eds), International Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues. N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1193-1213.

In Press

Romi, S., Lewis, R., Roache, J., & Riley, P. The Impact of Teachers' Aggressive Management Techniques on Students' Attitudes Toward Schoolwork. Journal of Educational Research. 104(4). 231-240

Lewis, R., Romi, S & Roache, J. Coping styles as mediators of teachers classroom management techniques. Research in Education. 85. 53-68.  

Roache. J & Lewis. R. Teachers’ views on the impact of classroom management on student responsibility. Australian Journal of Education. 55(2), 44-58

 

Selected Research Supervision:

  • A comparative study of teacher/student relationship in classroom management in Australia and China
  • Discipline: the clients' view
  • Teacher rationale for classroom discipline
  • Greek parents and discipline
  • Avoiding and controlling disruption in the primary classrooms
  • Community perceptions of primary school discipline:a case study
  • Negotiating classroom behaviour: teachers and students
  • Community perceptions of primary school discipline:a case study
  • An evaluation of the use of simulated patients in health science education
  • Attitudes of health science students to death and dying
  • Counseling attitudes and behaviour of clinical midwives
  • Attitudes to healthy and unhealthy life style
  • Student responsibility and classroom discipline
  • Character education in Australian schools

Recent Research Projects:

  • Examining the gap between teachers' preferences for, and practice of, styles of classroom discipline.
  • Student responsibility in classrooms
  • Adolescent and adult coping strategies and styles