Education

Faculty of Education, Bundoora

Academic Staff Profiles

• Background
• Research Interests
• Presentations
• Publications

Background

Tricia trained as a secondary school teacher and has taught in Primary and Secondary schools in the areas of Drama, English and Australian Studies.

Tricia McCann is a Lecturer in Education at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University and often teaches at the Shepparton and Albury-Wodonga campus’.

She also teaches ‘Approaches to Humanistic Psychology’, ‘Interpersonal Skills’, ‘Approaches to Pastoral Care’, ‘Students ‘at risk’: critical perspectives’ and ‘Holistic Education’ in the Graduate Diploma of Student Welfare. She also teaches ‘Studies of Society and Environment’ within the Graduate Diploma in Education.

She has researched and written in the areas of drama in education and adolescent consciousness. Her particular interests are processes of meaning-making, studies of consciousness, and philosophies and psychological theories of learning.

Research Interests:

• Person-centred theory applied to the schooling environment
• The Advocacy Project within secondary schools in Victoria
• Adolescent consciousness and meaning-making within a schooling context
• Drama in education
• Processes of meaning-making
• philosophies and psychological theories of learning

Recent Presentations

‘If only someone would hear’: the many voices of the Advocacy Project. Paper delivered to International “Spirit of Learning Conference” Byron Bay, 27th September –2 Oct, 2003.

Educating in a sacred space: creating an environment for relationship Paper delivered to National Colloquium on Re-enchanting Education, La Trobe University, September 13 and 14th , 2003.

'Paths on the journey: winding, wending and Whitehead' Australian Association for Process Thought Conference, Sept. 1999

Creative strategies: Use of Experiential Learning in teacher Training' ATEA Conference 1998

Recent Publications

Chapters in Books

'Interaction with a Grey Cat: A personal journey towards an Idea.' Presenting Lived experience: Writing to Capture Imagination and Move the Heart Colloquium.1998.

Rogers revisited: An approach to the listening relationship within the Advocacy Project. Mind, Body and Society: emerging understandings of knowing and learning. Ed Sharon Gunn and Andy Begg, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

Books

Heywood,P. Carozzi,B. McCann,T. (1995) Englishworks Student Book, Cambridge University Press.

Heywood,P. Carozzi,B. McCann,T. (1996) Englishworks Teacher's Book, Cambridge University Press.

Heywood,P. Carozzi,B. McCann,T. (1996) Englishworks Collection, Cambridge University Press.