Education

Faculty of Education, Bundoora

Academic Staff Profiles

Dr Athena Vongalis-Macrow
	BEd (Deakin), MEd (Melbourne), PhD (Monash) Senior Lecturer Bundoora Campus Education 1 Building, Room 346 Phone: +61 3 9479 2533 Fax: +61 3 9479 3070 Email: a.vongalis@latrobe.edu.au

• Background
• Research Interests
• Publications
• Conferences
• Invited speaker
• Thesis Supervision
• Research Projects

Background

Athena has had extensive experience as a teacher in secondary, post secondary and tertiary contexts. Since 1994 Athena has been teaching and researching in international education. Her research has included analysis of the impact of the English language as a global language, international reforms in education systems and the restructuring of education systems and teacher education.

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Research Interests

Current research interests include teacher professionalism, the impact of globalisation on education systems, policy and governance in education, and analysing the policy of international agencies such as OECD, UNESCO and the World Bank.

Selected Publications:

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2008) Deployed to Deliver: Teachers’ Agency in Globalised Education Systems, Sense Publications: Rotterdam (forthcoming)

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2007) Teachers’ Ethics: Educational International Forging Professional Unity, Journal of Educational Controversy, Volume 2, Number 2
http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v002n002/a013.shtml

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2007) "I, Teacher: Re territorialisation of teachers' multi-faceted Agency in globalised education" British Journal of Sociology of Education, Volume 28, Number 4 (July 2007)

Emma-Jane Jaques and Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2007) “Serving Community: Prosocial Engagement in Educational Administration” in Teaching Leaders to Lead Teachers: Educational Administration in The Era of Constant Crisis Edited by Saran Donahoo, and Richard C. Hunter, Elsevier Science Ltd., USA

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2006) "Policy and profits; the dilemma of education reconstruction in Iraq" Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Vol 5, No 2, November 2006

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2006) "Rebuilding regimes or rebuilding community? Teachers' agency for social reconstruction" Journal of Peace Education Vol 3, No. 1 March 2006, pp. 99-113

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2006) Displaced Agency: The obfuscation of teachers in globalised education policy, in Redesigning Pedagogy: Reflections on Theory and Praxis edited by W. D. Bokhorst-Heng, M. D. Osborne and K. Lee, Sense Publications: Rotterdam (pp 59-73).

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2004) "Global Education Policy Directives: Impact on Teachers from the north and south" International Education Journal, Vol 5 No.4  pp. 488-501

Vongalis, A and Seddon, T. 2001 “Futures for teachers? Unravelling global agencies development agendas in education and training and lifelong learning”. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ed/events/conf-papers.htm Co researcher, Monash University Research Grant

Vongalis, A. 2000 “The roles of teachers in International Education”, Ariel Journal Monash International, Monash University Melbourne

Vongalis, A. 1998 “Meeting the Challenge: International Students and Transition into university”, Boomerang 2 (3) IDP Publication Sydney

Vongalis, A. 1997 “Walking the Walk: PC Language and Feminism”, Pandora Journal 8 Melbourne

Conferences:

Millsom Henry Mainwarring and Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2007) Using Education as a Tool for Social Cohesion Paper presented as part of symposium, Role of Education in Social Cohesion 12th International Metropolis Conference, Melbourne October 9th-11th 2007

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2007) The knowledge doing gap: a theoretical perspective on developing eco agency paper presented at AARE 2007 Annual International Education Research Conference, University of Notre Dame, November 26th-29th.

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2006) Access as the Silent Benefactor of Knowledge Production? Paper presented at The European Conference on Educational Research, September 13-16, 2006 at the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Transforming Knowledge. ECER 2006

Athena Vongalis-Macrow Redesigning Pedagogy: Research, Policy, Practice ---- 30 May to 1 June 2005 National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Displaced agency: the obfuscation of teachers in globalised educational policy.

Athena Vongalis-Macrow Australian Association for Research in Education AARE Conference, 28th Nov - 1st Dec, 2005 Parramatta, Australia VON05129 : "I, Teacher: agency in globalised education"

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2004) "(Re) Building Community by employing teachers' agency for social reconstruction" paper given at European Educational Research Association (EERA), University of Crete, Greece 22th -25th September 2004, Crete, Greece

Athena Vongalis-Macrow (2004) "Rebuilding regimes or rebuilding community? Teachers' agency for social reconstruction" paper given at Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE) University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia "Doing the Public Good: Positioning Education Research" 28th Nov - 2nd Dec, 2004 Melbourne Australia

Vongalis-Macrow, Wright and Brew(2004) "Integrating ICT in Pre-service Teacher Education - reframing teacher education" paper presented at AARE Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia "Doing the Public Good: Positioning Education Research" 28th Nov - 2nd Dec, 2004 Melbourne Australia

Athena Vongalis, European Conference on Educational Research, University of Lisbon. Lisbon September 11-14 2002. Global education policy directives and the impact on teachers from the North and South

Athena Vongalis 2001 Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Fremantle. Paper presented at the AARE 2001 Conference The teaching profession in the global age: Challenges ahead". http://www.aare.edu.au.htm

Seddon, T; Billett, S; Vongalis, A. 2002 'Building community through social partnerships around vocational education and training' in Envisioning practice - implementing change: volume three / edited by Searle, Jean; Roebuck, Dick. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press, p. 73-81

Athena Vongalis and Terri Seddon Travelling Policy/Local Space conference, Keele University, June 2001. Futures for teachers? Unravelling global agencies development agendas in education in education and training and lifelong learning

Invited speaker:

MERC Annual Invitational Lecture MERC Annual Invitational Lecture , Dr Athena Vongalis-Macrow , (2004) "The Confederacy of Ideas" . Monash University Education Research Conference MERC Conference 2004 , 1 October 2004, Faculty of Education, Monash University Clayton , Victoria.

Thesis Supervision :

• The Application of Narrative-Framing Reader-Response Strategy in a Senior Secondary School EFL Classroom in China
• Teacher's Roles in Chinese EFL Learner Autonomy
• The Application of Narrative-Framing Reader-Response Strategy in a Secondary School EFL Classroom in China
• Understanding Successful and Less Successful learners in a Chinese EFL Context
• The Factors of Influencing Motivation in The Chinese EFL Context
• Code-switching in a Chinese EFL Teaching Context
• Learning Styles and Language Achievement
• Human factors impacting on educational change in Vietnam
• Girls' education: Interactions of policy, practice and perception of girls' education in two African communities.

Research Projects:

Athena Vongalis-Macrow, 2006, La Trobe University Faculty of Education Research Grant: Access and engagement in the policy jungle.

Dr H. Nicholas, Pam Wright, Dr Athena Vongalis-Macrow, Dr Wan Ng, Dr A Williams, 2006, La Trobe University Higher Education Equity Support Program Grant.

Australian Teacher Educator Association ( ATEA) Teaching Develop­ment Grant & Research Grant for New Researchers   2004-2005 .

NR2002 “Building community through social partnerships around vocational education and training” with Professor Terri Seddon (Monash University), Associate Professor Stephen Billett (Griffith University) and Athena Vongalis (Monash University).