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Professor Tanya Fitzgerald

Academic Director Professor in Educational Leadership and Management Faculty of Education, Bundoora Campus Education 2 Building, Room 310 Phone: +61 3 9479 2650 Fax: +61 3 9479 3070 Email: t.fitzgerald@latrobe.edu.au

Background

Professor Tanya Fitzgerald has a varied professional career and has held positions as a secondary school teacher, head of department, a university lecturer and team manager in a corporate company.

She was based at Unitec Institute of Technology (a dual sector government tertiary institution) from 1998-2008. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham (UK). In 2009 Tanya took up the role as Academic Director in La Trobe University's Faculty of Education.

Tanya's research interests span two fields; history of education and educational leadership and she supervises research students across both fields. Her work has been published in national and international journals. She has secured research funding from national and international bodies and won a number of prestigious research prizes. Tanya's two forthcoming books deal with such topics as the history of academic women (1907-1961) and gender policies in Australian and New Zealand universities (2000-2008).

Since 2000, Tanya has been the Chief Editor of History of Education Review, in 2006 she was appointed editor of the Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice and since 2007 has been the co-editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.

Research interests

• Historical and contemporary perspectives on the professoriate
• Gender, leadership and higher education
• Academic cultures
• Education policy
• Critical studies in educational administration
• Educational biography
• Visual methodologies
• Social justice and educational leadership
• Teachers work

Recent publications

Books

• Fitzgerald, T. (2009) Outsiders or equals? A history of women professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961. Peter Lang (forthcoming)
• Fitzgerald, T. and Wilkinson, J. (2009) Are we there yet? Gender, equity and higher education. Brisbane: Post Pressed (forthcoming)
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H.M (eds) (2009) Educational administration and history: The state of the field. London: Routledge.

Book chapters

• Fitzgerald, T. (2009) 'The continuing politics of mistrust: Performance management and the erosion of professional work'. In T. Fitzgerald and H. Gunter (eds). Educational administration and history: the state of the field. (pp. 33-48). London: Routledge.
• Coleman, M. and Fitzgerald, T. (2008) 'Gender and leadership development'. In G. Crow, J. Lumby and P. Pashiardis (eds). International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders. (pp. 119-153). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) 'Feminisms'. In G. McCulloch and D. Crook (eds) Routledge international encyclopaedia of education. (pp. 252-253). London: Routledge.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) 'Indigenous education'. In G. McCulloch and D. Crook (eds) Routledge international encyclopaedia of education. (pp. 308-309). London: Routledge.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) 'Remodelling schools and schooling, teachers and teaching'. In G. Butt, H. Gunter and H. Thomas (eds). Modernising schools: People, learning and organisations. (pp. 163-175). London: Continuum.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) 'Reading between the lines: Documents and documentary analysis'. In M. Coleman and A. Briggs (eds). Research methods for educational leadership and management. (pp. 278-294). London: Sage Publications.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2005) 'Partnership, protection and participation: Research supervision and the (Re)production of Indigenous knowledge in Aotearoa/New Zealand'. In P. Green (ed). Supervising Postgraduate Research: Contexts and Processes, Theories and Practices. (pp. 30-47). Melbourne: RMIT University Press.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2001) 'Potential paradoxes in performance appraisal: Emerging issues for New Zealand schools'. In D. Middlewood and C. Cardno (Eds.) Managing Teacher Appraisal and Performance: A Comparative Approach. (pp. 112-124). London: Routledge Falmer Press.

Reports

• Fitzgerald, T., Gunter, H. and Eaton, J. (2006) Leadership of learning: Middle leadership in schools in England and New Zealand. A Report to the National College for School Leadership as part of the International Research Associate Programme. Manchester: Manchester University.

Journal articles

• Fitzgerald, T. (2009) Spaces in-between: Indigenous women leaders speak back. International Journal of Leadership in Education (forthcoming).
• Fitzgerald, T. (2009) The tyranny of bureaucracy: Continuing challenges of leading and managing from the middle, Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 37(1): 51-66.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2009) Just leading? Social justice and socially just outcomes. Management in Education (forthcoming).
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H.M. (2008) Contesting the orthodoxy of teacher leadership, International Journal of Leadership in Education, 11(4): 331-340.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2008) The continuing politics of mistrust: Performance management and the erosion of professional work, Journal of Educational Administration & History, 40(2): 113-128.
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H.M. (2008) Educational administration and history: Academic journals and the role of JEAH, Journal of Educational Administration & History, 40(1): 21-37.
• Gunter, H.M and Fitzgerald, T. (2008) The future of leadership research? School Leadership & Management, 28(3): 263-280.
• Gunter, H.M and Fitzgerald, T. (2008) Educational administration and history: Debating the agenda, Journal of Educational Administration & History, 40(1): 5-20.
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H. (2008) Leading learning: Perspectives from England and New Zealand, Perspectives in Educational Leadership March.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) Academic housework? Women professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961, New Zealand Journal of Education Studies, 42(1/2): 115-127.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) An absent presence: Women professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961, Journal of Educational Administration & History, 39(3): 239-253.
• Gunter, H.M and Fitzgerald, T. (2007) The contribution of researching professionals to field development. Journal of Educational Administration & History, 39(1): 1-16.
• Gunter, H.M and Fitzgerald, T. (2007) Leading learning and leading teachers: Challenges for schools in the 21st century. Leading and Managing, 13(1): 1-15.
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H. (2006) Teacher leadership? A new form of managerialism. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership, 21(2): 44-57.
• Brundrett, M., Fitzgerald, T. and Sommefeldt, D. (2006) The creation of national programmes of school leadership development in England and New Zealand: A comparative study. International Studies in Educational Administration, 34(1): 89-105.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2006) Walking between two worlds: Indigenous women and educational leadership. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 34(2): 201-213.
• Fitzgerald, T., Gunter, H. with Eaton, J. (2006) The missing link? Middle leadership in schools in England and New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership, 21(1): 29-43.
• Fitzgerald, T. and Moore, W. (2005) Balancing or juggling: The challenges of professional and domestic work for women principals. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership, 20(2): 59-69.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2005) Archives of memory and memories of archive: CMS women's letters and diaries 1823-1835. History of Education, 34(6): 657-674.
• Cardno, C. and Fitzgerald, T. (2005) Leadership learning: A management development initiative for experienced New Zealand principals. Journal of Educational Administration, 43(3): 316-329.
• Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H. (2005) Trends in the administration and history of Education: What counts? A reply to Roy Lowe. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 37(2): 127-136.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2004) Powerful voices and powerful stories: Reflections on the challenges and dynamics of intercultural research. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 25(3): 233-245.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2004) Gender matters with/in middle management. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership, 19(2): 45-56.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2004) To unite their strength with ours: Women and missionary work in Aotearoa New Zealand 1827-1845. Journal of Pacific History, 39(2): 147-161.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2004) A focus on the real issues: Senior managers' perceptions of performance Appraisal in NZ schools. Perspectives, 14(3).
• Fitzgerald, T. (2003) Interrogating orthodox voices: Gender, ethnicity and educational leadership. School Leadership and Management, 23(4): 431-444.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2003) Creating a disciplined society: CMS women and the re-making of Nga Puhi women 1823-1835. History of Education Review, 32(1): 84-98.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2003) Cartographies of friendship: Mapping missionary women's educational networks in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1823-1840. History of Education, 32(5): 513-527.
• Fitzgerald, T., Youngs, H. and Grootenboer, P. (2003) Bureaucratic control or professional autonomy: Performance management in NZ schools. School Leadership and Management, 23(1): 91-105.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2003) Changing the deafening silence of Indigenous voices in educational leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 41(1): 9-23.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2001) Fences, boundaries and imagined communities: Re-thinking the construction of early mission schools and communities in New Zealand 1823-1830. History of Education Review, 30(2): 14-25.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2001) Jumping the fences: Policy, practice and Maori women's resistance to schooling in northern New Zealand 1823-1835. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, XXXVII: 175-192.

Keynote addresses

• Fitzgerald, T. (2008) Women professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961. Public address, New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women, Auckland, October.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2008) An impossibility? Social justice and educational excellence. Keynote address to 7th annual international conference on educational leadership, Australian Centre for Educational Leadership, University of Wollongong, February.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) Fostering cross-cultural relationships: Reflections from the field. Public lecture, University of Nottingham (UK), November.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2007) Labouring in an academic kitchen? Academic women at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961. Public lecture, University of Leicester (UK), November.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2005) Leading change or changing leadership? Keynote address to the Aspiring Principals Programme, Auckland, July.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2005) Writing home: Missionary texts and empire 1820-1840. Public lecture, Institute for Historical Research, Institute of Education, University of London, London, June.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2005) Leadership learning or learning leadership? An examination of the preparation of New Zealand school principals. Address to the School of Education, University of Manchester (UK), May.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2003) Interrogating orthodox voices: Gender, ethnicity and educational leadership. Keynote Address for the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series, National College for School Leadership, Nottingham (UK), May.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2002) Appraisal and feedback. Keynote address to the Auckland Deputy and Assistant Principals Conference, Auckland, August.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2002) Partnership and Indigenous research supervision. Address to the Centre for Aboriginal Studies and Curtin Indigenous Research Centre, Curtin University, Perth, May.
• Fitzgerald, T. (2002) Partnership, protection and participation: A framework for the exercise of educational leadership in Aotearoa. Address to the Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia, Perth, May.

Editorships

• Editor (2006-2009) Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice
• Editor (2002-2007; 2008-2012) History of Education Review
• Joint Editor (2008-2011) Journal of Educational Administration and History (with Professor Helen Gunter, University of Manchester)