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Dr Andrea Gallant 

Dr Andrea Gallant

Lecturer
PreService Co-ordinator
Convenor, Grad Diploma in Education - Primary [Mid-year intake]

Bundoora Campus
Education 1 Building, Room 333
Phone: +61 3 9479 2653
Fax: +61 3 9479 3070

Email: a.gallant@latrobe.edu.au

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BACKGROUND

    Andrea graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor Degree in Education with Honours (Educational Psychology). She has been a secondary school teacher in government, independent, Zionist and alternative schools, in Tasmanian and Victoria. Andrea has been a coordinator of middle school and convenor of curriculum.

    More recently she was involved in an educational programme working with some of the most economically disadvantaged secondary school children in Victoria. Presently she is a lecturer in the Graduate Diploma of Education programmes, lecturing in both primary and secondary education. She is working towards completing her PhD in 2006.

    She teachers Secondary English Method, Issues in Education (primary), Holistic Education and Students at Risk.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS
    The role of consciousness in teaching and learning, Ecosophical education, Shibusa education, Holistic education, Educational psychology, Enactivist and Participatory research methodologies.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • Gallant, A. (2001). Should we be revisiting the Axial period? In S.Gunn & A. Begg. Mind, Body and Society: Emerging Understandings in Knowing and Learning. Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne.
  • Gallant, A. (2002). Knock knock knock is any one home? Enactivism and Post-stucturalism:
    Implications for Professional Development of Educators. Australian Catholic University
    Available at http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/Faculties/trescowthick/conferences/papers/AndreaGallant.htm
  • Gallant, A. (2005). Imagination: Resuscitating the living dead. In P. Heywood, T. McCann, B. Neville, & P. Willis. Towards Re-enchantment: Education, Imagination and the Search for Meaning. Post Pressed Publishers, 2005.
  • Gallant, A. (2005). An amethodology approach to research. 1st Research Symposium on Imagination in Education, 1.
  • Gallant, A. (2006). Imagination: Resuscitating Education. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Imagination and Education, Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites @ Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    Available: http://www.ierg.net/confs/viewpaper.php?id=233&cf=233
  • Gallant, A. (2006). A Conversation ‘And So Say All of Us’. Gebser Journal: Communication, Comparative Cultures and Civilizations. United States of America.
  • Gallant & Wright. (2007). Money, Distance, Time and Support: Virtual mentoring of pre service teachers during school placements. i-manager's Journal of Educational Technology.
  • Gallant A. & Riley, P. (2008). Consciousness Structures and Attachment Responses to Strange Situations. Asia Journal of Global Studies
  • Gallant, A. (in press, Accepted February 2008). Witnessing the re-formation of Gemeinschaft/Gesellscahft. Gebser Journal: Communication, Comparative Cultures and Civilizations
  • Gallant, A. (2007). Tönnies, Ong, McLuhan and Gebser: Multicultural classrooms. Jean Gebser International Conference: Community, (Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA). XXXVI Annual International Jean Gebser Conference 18th - 21st of October
  • Gallant, A. (2008). Educational Management versus Leadership: Where have all the flowers gone, when will we ever learn? Colloquium presentation. Holistic Education Research Group Inaugural Colloquium. Melbourne, 24-25 Jan.
  • Gallant, A. (2008). Ambiguity of Globalisation: A-waring the subtle power of the butterfly affect. Jean Gebser International Conference: Exploring Transitions of Knowledge - (Melbourne. Australia ), XXXVII Annual International Jean Gebser Conference, June.
  • Gallant, A. (2008). The MR Game: The 'Deal or No Deal' Reality in Higher Education. Engendering Leadership Conference. Consortium for Diversity at Work Business School M261University of Western Australia, July
  • Gallant, A., & Riley, P. (Monash), & Barnes, J., & (UK) and Scofham, S. (UK)(2008). Education for Ecological Sustainability: Positive Pedagogy through Attachment and Cultural Consciousness. BERA (Symposium) Edinburgh, 3-6 September

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
  • Process thinking (Victoria, 2002)
  • Re enchanting education (Victoria, 2003)
  • Soul in education (New South Wales, 2003)
  • Imaginative education (Vancouver, 2005)
  • Imagination: Directions in Research (Vancouver, 2006)

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