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Faculty of Education,
Bundoora Campus
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 2546
Fax: +61 3 9479 3070
Email: Education
@latrobe.edu.au
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| Faculty of Education, Bundoora
Academic Staff Profiles
Professor Margaret Robertson
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PHD, FACE, MAPs, FRGS
Chair - Education
Associate Dean Research
Bundoora Campus
Education 2 Building, Room 340
Phone: +61 3 9479 5616
Fax: +61 3 9479 3070
Email: m.robertson@latrobe.edu.au |
Background:
Margaret Robertson is Professor in Education and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. Margaret is involved with numerous international research projects focused on sustainable development, geographical education and teaching and learning with digital technologies. Her leadership in these areas is currently recognised with project directorship of the International ICSU funded (International Council for Science) project titled Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Development Networking Local Area Partnerships with Teachers and Young Scientists.
As team leader and Chief Investigator of E-Learning Research projects Margaret has been successful with externally funded research grants related to Information and Communication Technologies and pedagogy, including consecutive ARC Linkage projects involving the Victorian Department of Education and Training and the Tasmanian Department of Education. These projects draw on concepts of real and imagined space and related issues of power, governance and agency.
Margaret has conducted research studies with colleagues in several overseas universities, most notably at the University of Cambridge where she was employed as a Senior Researcher on a national project in 1998 and maintains links with UK based researchers. Other universities where she has close associations for post-graduate teaching and research include the Universities of Helsinki, NIE in Singapore and Songkla University in Thailand (in cooperation with Australian Education International, Australian Embassy, Bangkok).
Numerous international teaching appointments complement Margaret's successful supervision and examination of Masters, and Doctoral candidates. Extensive experience as Program Director of post-graduate coursework programs and a strong commitment to quality and innovation in teaching are all part of Margaret's teaching and learning profile. Current innovations include the introduction of teaching and learning with global positioning systems and their associated geographical information systems and online connectivity - arguably at the frontier of mainstream information access in the broader community.
As International Executive Secretary, Geographic Education Commission of the International Geographical Union Margaret maintains communications with colleagues throughout the world. She is a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Geography and currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals including International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Research in Geographic Education and Fennia.
Her list of published research in international publications includes 8 books, 29 articles in international refereed journals, 29 invited book chapters, and 52 refereed papers in published conference proceedings. Her most recent book titles include:
Research Interests:
- Online Learning and Authentic Teaching Pedagogy
- Geography and Environmental Education
- Youth Leisure and Recreation - Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Publications:
Recent Invited Keynotes:
- Robertson, M. (2006) Invited keynote speaker International Geographical Education Commission for Geographical Education Symposium, Changes in Geographical Education: Past Present and Future, Brisbane, June, 2006. Title: "The ruling classes of geographical education - facing multiple perspectives and dilemmas".
- Robertson, M. (2006) Invited keynote speaker National conference of the Australian Geography Teachers' Association, Launceston. Title: Re-energising geographic education: A matter of multiple partnerships.
- Robertson, M. (2006) Workshop leader "Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Development: Networking Local Area Partnerships with Teachers and Young Scientists." Symposium Presentation at International Geographical Union Regional conference, Brisbane, July 2006
- Robertson, M. (2005) Invited keynote speaker, How cultures and civilizations may be presented in the educational contexts, Cultures and civilization in educational systems International Workshop, Rome December 2005
- Robertson, M. (2005) Invited keynote speaker Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology conference, Delhi, India December, 2005
- Robertson, M. (2004) Invited keynote speaker to Continuing Legal Education Association of Australasia Conference, Hobart, September 2004. Title of presentation: Distributed, Dinky and Decadent- Mobilising the Digital Learner
- Robertson, M. & Fluck, A. (2002) Children, Online Learning and Authentic Teaching Skills in Primary Education. Presentation and report on contract study for the Tasmanian Education Department, 60 pages.
- Robertson, M. E. (2001) Managing University teaching - juggling competing agendas. Invited keynote paper to be presented to the School of Dentistry, University of Western Australia, October.
- Robertson, M.E. (2000) Becoming learner-centred: valuing the voices of international students in university teaching. Seminar Paper for Centre for Research in Distance and Adult Learning Staff, The Open University of Hong Kong, August 2000.
- Robertson, M.E. (1999) Research and Supervision. Invited presentation to academic staff of Christchurch College of Education, November.
- Robertson, M.E. (1997) Visual-spatial patterning in environmental perceptions . Geography Department, University of Helsinki .
- Robertson, M.E. (1995) Planning for the new century: Whose meanings - Theirs or Ours? Paper presented at the Central Region Deputy Principal and Assistant Principals Conference, Wellington, 23-25, November.
Recent Books:
- Robertson, M. (Ed) (2007) Geographical perspectives on sustainable development: Networking local area partnerships with teachers and young scientists - a case study approach. Camberwell: ACER Press
- Robertson, M., Fluck, A. & Webb, I. (2007) Seven Steps to Success with ICTs: Whole school approaches to sustainable change. Camberwell: ACER Press
- Robertson, M.E. & Gerber, R. (in press) (Eds) Children's lifeworlds: locating indigenous voices. New York : Nova Scientific.
- Robertson, M.E. & Williams, M. (Eds) (2004) Young People, Leisure and Place: Cross-cultural perspectives. New York : Nova Scientific, 240 pages.
- Robertson, M.E. & Gerber, R. (Eds) (2001) Children's Ways of Knowing: Learning through Experience. Camberwell: ACER Press, 274 pages.
- Robertson, M.E. & Gerber, R. (Eds) (2000) The Child's World: Triggers for Learning . Camberwell: Australian Council for Education Research, 378 pages, ISBN 0 86431 301 2. (Reviewed in Research in Geographic Education, 1(2), 194 -198 by Dr. Janet Smith, Slippery Rock University, USA; Reviewed in the journal for International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2001, 10(4); Reviewed in Geographical Education, 2003.
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