Outdoor Education & Environmental Education

Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education

Staff Profile

Deirdre Slattery

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Email: d.slattery@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts ( Melbourne ) (1966)
• Diploma of Education (Melbourne) (1967)
• Master of Environmental Studies (Melbourne) (1985).

Community Roles

• Member of the National Parks Advisory Council 2001-
• Member of the Reference Areas Committee 2001-
• Consultative and Planning Committee, Box and Ironbark Ecology Course, Flora and Fauna Branch, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria, 1999 to present.
• Victorian National Parks Association. Member, 1992 to present. (Councillor 1993-2002).
• Bendigo Field Naturalists Club, 1996 to present.
• Castlemaine Friends of Box-Ironbark Forests.
• Kosciuszko Huts Association.

Research Interests

These focus on people’s attitudes and understanding of nature conservation, especially in relationship to national parks and to interpretation and community education.

Current holder of a Manning Clark House Residential Fellowship. In this role in 2008, I am researching the environmental history of alpine nature conservation in Australia. I intend to write papers of the Primitive Areas Issue of 1958-68, on alpine ecologist and public servant Baldur Byles, and on the role of science in natural resource management issues.

Affiliations

• World Council on Protected Areas (Australian Chapter)
• World Council on Protected Areas (Mountains Specialty Group)

Journals: Occasional reviewer

• Society and Natural Resources
• Australian Journal of Outdoor Education

Recent interpretive planning and training experience

• Mandar Consulting, 2006. Cultural heritage values of the Victorian high country: Interpretation plan. Department of Sustainability and Environment.
• January 2006. Keynote address and field day presentation to Australian Field Naturalists Network Australian Alps Field Tour
• November 2005. 2-2day interpretation workshops for North Central CMA.

Recent Academic Publications

Slattery B. J., Ralph, D., & Slattery D. A. (2008) Vagabond. The Story of Charles Sanger. Castlemaine: Friends of Box-Ironbark Forests.

Slattery, D. (2008). Review of Henderson, B. & Vikander, N. (2007). Nature first: Outdoor life the friluftsliv way. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(1), 44-46.

Slattery D. A. (2007) Land Use and the Ridley Paddock 1897-2005. Rural Society.
Charles Sturt University/Econtent Management. 17, 1, pp. 81-96.

Slattery B. J. & Slattery D. A. (2005) Rights Of Conquest: Some Reflections On The Cultural Obstacles To Restricting Access In National Parks. Australian Studies. 19, 1, pp. 5-26. British Australian Studies Association. Kingston-Upon-Thames, UK.

Slattery B. J. & Slattery D. A. (2005) Exclusion or Engagement? Cultural Obstacles To Restricting Access In National Parks. Historic Environment Journal. Canberra: Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Slattery, D. A. (2005) For Sale – Scotland’s most famous mountain range: land ‘ownership’ in Scotland and Australia, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 5, 2, pp. 119-130.

Slattery, D. A. (2004) If Burke had been a naturalist: Telling and retelling national narratives Australian Journal of Outdoor Education Outdoor Council of Australia. Bendigo, 8, 2, pp.13-21.

Slattery, D. A. (2004) Sixty years hard labour. Gippsland Heritage Journal. Briagolong, Kapana Press. 28, pp. 15-26.

Lugg, A. & Slattery, D. A. (2003) Environmental Education Through Outdoor Education. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 3, 1, pp. 77-92.

Slattery, D. A. (2002) Australians and the bush: a changing identity from gold rush to nature conservation? In Nature and Identity. Pederson K. & Viken A. (Eds). Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press.

Slattery, D. A. (2002) Resistance to Development at Wilsons Promontory National Park (Victoria, Australia). Society and Natural Resources. 15, pp. 563-580.

Lugg, A. & Slattery, D. A. (2002) If they treated the whole world like a National Park: Environmental Education by teachers and rangers. Aust. J. Environmental. Education. 18, pp. 35-43.

Slattery, D. A. (2001) What can environmental history offer Outdoor Education practitioners? Australian Journal of Outdoor Education. 5, 2, pp. 28 – 33.

Slattery, D. A. (2000) Adult Environmental Education and Ecology. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 15/16, pp. 78-83.

Slattery, D. (1998) Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks' Sydney, University of NSW Press.