Staff profile
Dr Jeannie Daniels
FBEL Academic Language & Learning Team, Lecturer
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 3755
- F: +61 3 9479 2356
- E: j.daniels@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
PhD (Education) - University of South Australia; Bachelor of Education (Hons 1st Class)-Adult Education (University of South Australia), Cert IV Assessment & Workplace Training (TAFESA), GradCert. Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Liverpool Hope University, UK), GradCert. TESOL (Open Universities Australia)- current
Membership of professional Associations
Fellow - Higher Education Academy, UK
Brief Profile
Jeannie Daniels is a Lecturer in Academic Language and Learning within the Faculty of Law and Management (0.7) and the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre (CTLC) (0.3). Prior to joining the Faculty she has worked at the University of South Australia in the School of Education and in the Foundation Studies programme, and spent a year lecturing and developing curricula at Liverpool Hope University in England.
She has presented at conferences in Australia and internationally on topics related to her doctoral research which investigated women’s experiences of learning in vocational education. Jeannie has published papers on topics such as adult learning and assessment and evaluation, and regularly reviews papers for the Australian Journal of Adult Learning and the International Journal of Lifelong Education. Current interests include the globalisation of education, mature-age students (particulrly women) in higher education and the cultural contexts within which international students study in English-language environments.
Research interests
Organisational, psychological and cultural change
- Please contact me to discuss a topic.Social capital
- Please contact me to discuss a topic.Recent Publications
Daniels, J, 2010, ‘Women learners and their virtual handbags: invisible experiences and everyday contexts in vocational education’, International Journal of Lifelong Education,vol.29, no.1, pp.77-92.
Daniels, J, 2010, ‘Considering the students: developing a cohesive model of assessment and evaluation’, PRIME (Pedagogical Action Research in Maximising Education) Journal of Liverpool Hope University,vol.4 April/May.
Daniels, J, 2009, ‘Working through language: researching the ‘organising texts’ of lifelong learning’, paper presented at SCUTREA 39th Annual Conference 7th July-9th July 2009, Cambridge University, England.
Daniels, J, 2008, ‘Negotiating learning through stories: mature women, VET and narrative inquiry’, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, vol 48, no 1, April 2008.
Research projects
2011. Developing Capability: International doctoral students in writing groups. One-year faculty-based study, currently being finalised. Findings due for publication as chapter in edited book(Routledge) mid-2012
2011. Educators' perspectives on teaching international students. Faculty-based study, with plans to extend with funding in 2012. Summary published in Broadcast #161.
2011. Older mature-age undergraduate students at La Trobe: effectiveness of widening participation strategies. University-wide. Pilot complete. Funding being sought to extend in 2012.
2011. Information Literacy - beyond Threshold Concepts. Approved, and in final stages of preparation. Cross-institutional project with Griffith University.
