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Mrs Shauna Petersen

Name :	Mrs Shauna Petersen
Position :	Lecturer (Literacy Education)
Section :	Faculty of Education Education
Office :	K210
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2699
Extension :	2699
E-mail :
Qualifications :	GDipEd QUT MEd USQ

Professional Memberships

Member of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)

Member - Darling Downs Local Council, ALEA

Professional Affiliations

Registered teacher - Queensland College of Teachers

Research Interests

Capacity Building
Teacher Leadership
Processes for school renewal (IDEAS project)
Three-Dimensional Pedagogy
Student Engagement in Tertiary Education

PhD proposal (December 2011):
When the sleeping giant awakes: The lived experiences of IDEAS teacher leaders and implications for education systems.

Research projects:

Internal Research Grant (2012) - research team - A/Prof Shirley O’Neill, Dr Joan Conway, Dr Lindy Abawi, Mrs Shauna Petersen and Ms Deborah Geoghegan. Classroom discourse analysis as an indicator of pedagogical change: Showing how effective teachers make literacy teaching and learning visible.

Leadership Research International major team project - Sydney CEO research project (2010-11) - a study of the implementation of the IDEAS project in Sydney CEO schools.

Leadership Research International major team project - Victorian research project (2008-9)- a study of the implementation of the IDEAS project in Victorian Education Department schools.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Petersen, S., Geoghegan, D. & O'Neill, S. (4-7 July, 2013). Schoolwide Pedagogy that works: Improving literacy outcomes in IDEAS schools. Workshop presented at Australian Literacy Educators' Association National English Literacy conference, Brisbane.

Geoghegan, D., O'Neill, S. & Petersen, S. (2013). ‘Metalanguage: The ‘teacher talk’ of explicit literacy teaching practice’. To be published in a special edition of the UK journal, Improving Schools (June 2013).

O'Neill, S., Geoghegan, D., & Petersen, S. (2013). Raising the pedagogical bar: Teachers co-construction of explicit teaching. To be published in a special edition of the UK journal, Improving Schools (June 2013).

Most notable :

Geoghegan, D., O'Neill, S. & Petersen, S. (2013). ‘Metalanguage: The ‘teacher talk’ of explicit literacy teaching practice’. To be published in a special edition of the UK journal, Improving Schools (June 2013).

O'Neill, S., Geoghegan, D., & Petersen, S. (2013). Raising the pedagogical bar: Teachers co-construction of explicit teaching. To be published in a special edition of the UK journal, Improving Schools (June 2013).

Petersen, S. (2012). From Walkervale to Kenya: Together we achieve the extraordinary. Story Catcher, 1(1). islPAL e-magazine. Available from <http://www.pedagogy.org.au/Resources/PedagogiesatWork-145/Volume1Issue12012-180/>

Petersen, S. (2011). Book review: The principal as leader of challenging conversations. Leading and Managing, 17(1), 100-102.

Conway, J., Petersen, S., & Crowther, F. (2011). The hitchhiker's guide to the leadership cosmos, Part 4. The Australian Educational Leader, 33(4), Centre lift-out.

Petersen, S. & Conway, J. (December, 2011). ‘I can see clearly now: Teacher leaders invoking reaction’. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 6(3).

Crowther, F., Conway, J. & Petersen, S. (2011). ‘The fifth C-B Dynamic: Invoking reaction’. In Frank Crowther & Associates. From school improvement to sustained success: The parallel leadership pathway. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Andrews, D, & Associates. (2011). Capacity building for sustainable school improvement: An Australian research study. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller GmbH & Co. KG.

Crowther, F., Abawi, L., Andrews, D., Conway, J., Dawson, M., Lewis, M., Morgan, A. & Petersen, S. (2010). Building and sustaining capacity in your school - the COSMIC C-B model (Monograph Series 47). Penrith, Australia: Australian Council of Educational Leaders (ACEL).

Andrews, D., & USQ-LRI Research Team (2009). A research report on the implementation of the IDEAS Project in Victoria, 2004-8. Toowoomba, QLD: Leadership Research Institute, University of Southern Queensland. Available from http://ideas.usq.edu.au/

Henderson, R. & Petersen, S. (2008, July 6-9). Professional conversations: Teacher educators making sense of literacy pedagogy. Refereed paper presented at the AATE/ALEA National Conference, Adelaide.

Petersen, S. & Henderson, R. (2008, July 6-9). Pre-service teachers developing literacy identities. Refereed paper presented at the AATE/ALEA National Conference, Adelaide.

Petersen, S. & Morgan, S. (2007, September 27-28). A context project: Engaging third year tertiary literacy education students in an authentic literacy assessment task. Snapshot presented at the USQ International Conference of Pedagogies and Learning, Springfield Campus, USQ.

Henderson, R. & Petersen, S. (2007, July 8-11). Investigating the engagement of 3rd year tertiary education students in the learning and teaching of literacy. Refereed paper presented at the AATE/ALEA National Conference, Canberra.

Unpublished Master's thesis -
Petersen, S. (2006). Three-dimensional pedagogy and literacy: A case study. Toowoomba: University of Southern Queensland.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

Currently Course Examiner for the following courses:

EDO3472 - Reading the Visual in Children's Literature (WEB elective course)

EDX2170 - English Curriculum and Pedagogy (WEB and Oncampus at Toowoomba, Fraser Coast and Springfield)

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 8 years
Other : 22 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Leadership Research International (LRI), Faculty of Education - research team member, consultant, publicity officer.