Staff profile

Ms Rebecca Miles

Associate Lecturer

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Education - Albury-Wodonga

Albury-Wodonga

 

Qualifications

B. Ed (Prim) (Honours)

Area of study

Environmental education
Primary teaching

Brief Profile

I trained as a primary teacher and have since taught in regional and rural schools, worked as an educational designer and lectured across early childhood, primary and secondary pre-service teacher education courses in educational sociology, research methods, and various curriculum areas. My doctoral research is on environmental and place based education in primary schools, and is situated across the fields of curriculum, practice and place. Previously, I have researched environmental education attitudes and knowledge of primary pre-service teachers. Outside my doctoral work I am interested in pre-service teacher education, rural-regional sustainability and university-school-community connections.  

Teaching Units

Learning and Professional Practice

Methods of Teaching - Early years (P-4), middle years (5-9), and later years (10-12)

Issues in Education

Research Methods

 

Older Publications

 Journal Articles

Miles, R., Cutter-Mackenzie, A., and Harrison, L. (2006). Teacher Education: A Diluted Environmental Education Experience. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 22(1), 49-59

Conference Proceedings

Miles, R. (2008) The Importance of Place in (Environmental) Education, Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association of Environmental Education. Sydney: Australian Association for Environmental Education.

Miles, R., and Cutter-Mackenzie, A. (2006). Environmental Education: Is it really a Priority in Teacher Education? In S. Wooltorton, and D. Marinova (Eds.), Sharing wisdom for our future, Environmental education in action: Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education. Sydney: Australian Association for Environmental Education.   

Miles, R. (2008) Rural-regional sustainability through revitalising the commons: A case study, Paper presented at the AARE 2008 International Educational Research Conference, Brisbane Presentations

Miles, R. (2009) Geographical Methodologies, Environmental Education Research and Place; in the Geographical Methodologies in Education Research Symposium, Australian Association for Research in Education International Education Research Conference Canberra, ACT, Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2009.

Miles, R. (2008), The Place of ‘Place’ in (Environmental) Education, National Conference of the Australian Association of Environmental Education, Darwin, 9-12 July 2008.

Miles, R. (2008), Rural-regional sustainability through revitalising the commons: A case study; in the Education and Rural-Regional Sustainability symposium, Australian Association for Research in Education International Education Research Conference, Brisbane 30 November – 4 December 2008 

Miles, R. (2006) Teacher Education: A diluted environmental education Experience National Conference of the Australian Association of Environmental Education, Bunbury, WA, 3-6 October 2006.

Book Reviews

Miles, R. (2008). Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 24(1) p75-76.