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Associate Professor Deirdre Barron |
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Associate Dean Research |
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PhD., 2002. Deakin University, Australia
BEd., hons. BA., ed.
As the Associate Dean Research Deirdre manages all aspects of the faculty’s research strategy and operations, and leads strategic planning for and direction of research within the faculty. She oversees the supervision of research students in the faculty and chairs the faculty Research Committee.
Deirdre has a background in education and she holds a PhD in Education from Deakin University.
Her primary research area is education policy and pedagogy with a particular focus on research training and supervision. Other areas include environmental education and communities of practice.
She has been the project coordinator for four successfully completed HEEP and EIP funded projects. These projects have focused on needs analysis of stakeholders in an educational setting.
Currently she holds an ARC Linkage Grant for a project tilted The School: Designing a dynamic venue for the new knowledge environment. This project focuses on the nature of design and the nature of education and the ways in which children are taught in our educational institutions, while making links to industry, government planning and community needs through the collaboration with the industry partners.
Current Research
Chief Investigator ARC Linkage Grant
The School: Designing a dynamic venue for the new knowledge environment
The study seeks to identify and describe the well designed, school physical environment of the 21st century, as that which facilitates the easy and effective integration of contemporary pedagogical theory and technological change in order to facilitate individual and collaborative learning that is grounded in school communities. Focusing on the integrated design and educational programs of the two exemplary Victorian schools, one public and one private, within the context of international developments, it will evaluate how the design of the physical environment can advance or impede the teaching and learning process.
Publications
Barron, D., & Zeegers, M. (2008). Designing Capacity: Broadening and Deepening Design Capacity through Design Education. Paper presented at the ECER 2008 Göteborg - The European Conference on Educational Research, Göteborg.
Zeegers, M., & Barron, D. (2008). Honours: a taken-for-granted pathway to research? Higher Education, Published online: 4 July 2008
Barron, D., & Zeegers, M. (2007). A leadership enrichment program for Research Higher Degree Students: an experiential learning approach to leadership training. Paper presented at the Engaging Peadagogies 2006 Conference of The Australian Association for Research in Education: 27-30 November 2006, Adelaide.
Barron, D., & Zeegers, M. (2006). Subjects of Western Education: Discursive Practices in Western Postgraduate Studies and the Construction of International Student Subjectivities. Australian Education Researcher, 33(2).
Zeegers, M., & Barron, D. (2006). Generic Skills Training. In C. Denholm & T. Evans (Eds.), Keys to Successful Doctoral Studies in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 88-94). Camberwell: ACER Press.
Barron, D., Anderson, L., & Jackson, S. (2005). Designing by Practice: A New Professional Doctorate in Design. Paper presented at the Professional Doctorates Conference, Waurn Ponds.
Barron, D., Jackson, S., & Anderson, L. (2005). Ignorance, environmental education research and design education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 21.
Anderson, L., Jackson, S., & Barron, D. (2004). Mapping Design Provision In Victorian Senior Secondary Schools: Research Report. Melbourne: Department of Education and Training,o. Document Number)
Pratt, K., Barron, D., Prince, A., Lowther, J., & Marshall, R. (2004, 22-23rd April). Educating Leaders: Leadership and Entrepreneurial Attributes Development (LEAD) Program at Swinburne University of Technology. Paper presented at the Re-imagining research education: Quality in Postgraduate Education, Adelaide.
Zeegers, M., & Barron, D. (2004). To registrate and/or deregistrate: getting onto and off the Postgraduate Supervisor Register. International Journal of Learning, 10.
Pre 2004
Barron, D. (1994). Children's Perceptions of Environment: making visible gender and ecological biases in environmental education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference Australian Association for Research in Education, Newcastle.
Barron, D. (1995). A feminist challenge to current approaches to environmental education research. Paper presented at the European-Australian Invitational Seminar on Research in Environmental Education, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Barron, D. (1995). A feminist challenge to current approaches to environmental education research. Paper presented at the European-Australian Invitational Seminar on Research in Environmental Education, Brisbane.
Barron, D. (1995). Gendering environmental education reform: identifying the constitutive power of environmental discourses. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 11(October 1995), 107-120.
Barron, D. (1995). Investigating feminist resistance in education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference Australian Association for Research in Education, Hobart.
Barron, D. (1996). A woman's place: gender, environment and science. Paper presented at the Annual Conference: Deakin Education Faculty Centre for Studies in Mathematics, Science and Environmental Education., Deakin University, Burwood.
Barron, D. (1996). Women in environmental education: education for a women's perspective or with a women's perspective? Paper presented at the Deakin Postgraduate Seminar Program, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds.
Barron, D., & Hinton, S. (1999). It's not just for a piece of paper: equity and access to postgraduate education: postgraduate students' perceptions of financial disadvantage, the case of Swinburne University of Technology. In The 1999 International HERDSA Conference, Cornerstones. Melbourne University: HERD.
Barron, D., & Prince, A. (2002). Adelaide Patent No. Quality in Postgraduate Education: Integrating Perspectives Conference: M. Kiley & G. Mullins.
Barron, D., & Zeegers, M. (1998). Masters and Apprentices: the conference
Blackmore, J., Kenway, J., Barron, D., & Sheridan, D. (1994). Gender and Education: A Bibliographic Resource. Waurn Ponds: Deakin University Press.
Fullarton, S., Barron, D., Boos, C. D., Morgan, H., & Towns, D. (1997). Identifying the Needs of Coursework Postgraduate Students: The Case of DUPA, MPA, RPA & SUPA. Clayton: Monash Postgraduate Associationo. Document Number)
Swinburne University of Technology. (2003). Leadership and entrepreneurial attributes development program. Canberra: AUQAo. Document Number)
Zeegers, M., & Barron, D. (2000). More than an Apprentice Model: Legitimate Peripheral Participation and the Postgraduate Research Conference. In M. Kiley & G. Mullins (Eds.), Quality in postgraduate research: Making ends meet. Canberra: CELTS, University of Canberra.