Education

Faculty of Education, Bundoora

Academic Staff Profiles

Dr Ramon Lewis (Professor)
	BSc, DipEd, BEd, PhD (Monash) School Research Coordinator, Faculty Director Graduate Research, Chair of Preservice Education Programs committee, Chair of Faculty Ethics committee Bundoora Campus Education 2 Building, Room 323 Phone: +61 3 9479 2611 Fax: +61 3 9479 3070 Email: r.lewis@latrobe.edu.au

Research Interests:

• Classroom discipline and student responsibility
• Adolescent and adult coping
• Attitude Measurement
• Quantitative research methodology

Selected Publications:

Books

Lewis, R. (2008). The developmental management approach to classroom behaviour: Responding to individual needs. Melbourne: ACER Press. (Republished by Routledge. USA as Understanding Pupil Behaviour)

Book chapters

Lewis, R. & Riley, P. (publication date: November 2008 or early 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. (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.

Lewis, P. & Riley, P. Teacher misbehaviour. (in press; invited June, 2008). In L.J. Saha & G. Dworkan (eds) The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching. To be published in 2008, by Springer:Mass.

McCann, T. and Lewis, R. (in press; invited June, 2008). Teachers and 'at risk' students. In L.J. Saha & G. Dworkan (eds). The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching. To be published in 2008, by Springer:Mass.

Journal articles

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.

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

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

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

Lewis, R. Developmental Classroom Management; Each according to need. Australian Council For Educational Research

Lewis, R., and Frydenberg, E. 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)

Romi, S., Lewis, R., and Katz. Y.. Students' reactions to classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel. Teaching and Teacher Education.

Lewis, R., and Frydenberg, E. . The relationship between problem-solving efficacy and coping among Australian adolescents. British Journal of Psychology and Counselling.

Lewis, R., and Riley, P. Teacher Misbehaviour. In Lawrence J. Saha and Anthony Gary Dworkin (Editors). The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching

McCann., P., and Lewis, R. Students at Risk and Classroom Management. In Lawrence J. Saha and Anthony Gary Dworkin (Editors). The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching

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