Education

Faculty of Education, Bundoora

Academic Staff Profiles

Dr Keith Simkin
	BA (Hons) Dip Ed BEd (Melbourne) MA (Toronto) PhD (La Trobe) Lecturer Bundoora Campus Education 1 Building, Room 517 Phone: +61 3 9479 2652 Fax: +61 3 9479 3070 Email: k.simkin@latrobe.edu.au

• Background
• Research Interests
• Publications
• Presentations
• Thesis Supervision

Keith has taught in universities and colleges in Australia, North and South America, Europe and Asia. His current teaching areas at the Graduate School of Education are:

• Multicultural education, education for diversity and inclusion
• Anti-prejudice and counter-racism strategies
• Crosscultural communication and training in education, health, community development, management and leadership, and the workplace
• International education
• Applied linguistics, teaching culture in language learning
• Social sciences education, Asian perspectives
• Methods of teaching and learning, and curriculum development, in technical, vocational and adult education.

• Multicultural education
• Anti-prejudice and anti-racism programs
• Cross-cultural communication
• Social Science Education
• Managing diversity
• Teaching and learning strategies in vocational education
• Curriculum development

• International students learning of language and culture
• Cross-cultural communication in education and management
• Multicultural perspectives in education

Thesis Supervision:

Some recent thesis topics supervised include:

• Experiences of Racism Among Vietnamese Communities
• Intercultural Communication Experiences of Japanese International Students in Australian Universities
• Introducing Asian Studies Programs into Secondary Schools in Victoria
• Identity and Self Concept Among Second Generation Italo-Australian Women
• Introducing a New Curriculum to Adolescent Second Generation Learners of Greek in Australia
• Curriculum Unit of English as a Foreign Language in China
• A Case Study of Studies of Society and Environment in a Victorian Primary School
• Ethnic Identity Among Vietnamese Adolescents
• Learning to Communicate Interculturally
• Multicultural Policy Responses to Diversity in education
• Strategies for School Psychologists to Counter Racism
• The Experiences of Thai International Students

Selected Publications

International Students and Migration, Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, AGPS, Canberra, 1995 (with D. Nesdale and others).

Slovenians in Australia, Birsa Melbourne, Melbourne, 1995

International Education: Australian Perspectives, IDP Education Australia, 1996 (with S. Fraser).

Report on Teacher Education at IKIP Bandung, PGSD, International Bank for Rural Development, Bandung, 1996.

'Communication Perspectives on Comparisons of Diversity, Equality and Educational Change', in F. Williams (ed.) Education, Equity and Transformation in a Post-Colonial World, ANZCIES, 1997, 57-73.

'Education for Intercultural Understanding', in R. Peddie (ed.) Looking at the Past, Looking to the Future, University of Auckland Press, 1998, pp. 157-174.

Pre-Modern Asian Civilisations, Studies of Society and Environment Professional Development Module 1, Graduate School of Education, La Trobe University and Education Department of Victoria, in association with Asia Education Foundation NALSAS, 1999.

Contemporary Issues and Values, Studies of Society and Environment Professional Development Module 2, Graduate School of Education, La Trobe University and Education Department of Victoria, in association with Asia Education Foundation NALSAS, 1999.

Selected Conference Presentations

'A Theoretical Synthesis in Intercultural Education', Annual Conference, Educational Research Association, Singapore 22-24 November, 1995.

'Adapting Australian Universities to International Students: A Case Study of Thais', 9th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Sydney, 1-4 July, 1996.

'Teaching Thai Students Some Aspects of Western Discourse Structure'. Thai, Japan and Korea TESOL Associations Conference on New Perspectives on English Language Teaching, Bangkok, 5-7 January 1997

'Intercultural Communication Theory and the Teaching of International Students in Australian Universities', Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, La Trobe University, 7-9 July, 1997.

'Intercultural Communication, Cultural Studies and Educational Practice', Annual Conference of Australian Cultural Studies Association, University of Melbourne, 11-13 November, 1997.

'Education for Intercultural Understanding: Some Implications for Comparative Understanding', Annual Conference of Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society, University of Auckland, 5-8 December, 1998.

'Teaching Asian Learners of English How to Write Good Essays in an Australian Context', Thai TESOL Conference, Bangkok, 21-3 January 1999.