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Professor Patrick Danaher

Name :	Professor Patrick Danaher
Position :	Dean (Faculty of Education)
Section :	Faculty of Education Education
Office :	G305
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1190
Extension :	1190
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEd JCU BA Qld GDipEdTert, MLitt UNE PhD CQU

Home Page : http://patrickalandanaher.weebly.com/
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Professional Memberships

Capacity-Building Research Network Faculty Research Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland
Queensland College of Teachers

Research Interests

Academics', educators' and researchers' work and identities
Doctoral students and their supervision
Educational research ethics and politics
Mobilities and education
Open and distance education
Rural education
Sociocultural foundations of education

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Singh, M., Harreveld, R. E., & Danaher, P. A. (2013). Transnational intellectual engagement via cocoon communities: Inter-university videoconferencing for local and international students. In M. Korpela & F. Dervin (Eds.), _Cocoon communities: Togetherness in the 21st century_ (pp. 59-80). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hafeez-Baig, A., Gururajan, R., Danaher, P. A., & De George-Walker, L. R. (2013). Principles and pressures in managing student attitudes to innovative mobile learning: A view from an Australian distance-education-intensive university. In J. Wei, A. A. Ozok, & J. Yang (Eds.), _Managing innovative distance learning for higher education_. Theme issue of the _International Journal of Management in Education_, _7_(1/2), 149-162.
Bhopal, K., & Danaher, P. A. (2013). _Identity and pedagogy in higher education: International comparisons_. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. vi + 182.

Most notable :

Arden, C. H., Danaher, P. A., De George-Walker, L., Henderson, R., Midgley, W., Noble, K., & Tyler, M. A. (Eds.) (2010). _Sustaining synergies: Collaborative research and researching collaboration_. Mount Gravatt, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. xviii + 161.
Bhopal, K., & Danaher, P. A. (2013). _Identity and pedagogy in higher education: International comparisons_. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. vi + 182.
Coombes, P. N., Danaher, M. J. M., & Danaher, P. A. (Eds.) (2004). _Strategic uncertainties: Ethics, politics and risk in contemporary educational research_. Flaxton, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. xii + 210.
Danaher, P. A. (Ed.) (1998). _Beyond the ferris wheel: Educating Queensland show children_ _(Studies in open and distance learning number 1)_. Rockhampton, Qld: Central Queensland University Press, pp. xiv + 209. [This book received the 1999 Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia Award for Excellence in a Book or Non-Print Production Detailing Research.]
Danaher, P. A. (Ed.) (2000). _Mapping international diversity in researching Traveller and nomadic education_. Theme issue of the _International Journal of Educational Research_, _33_(3), 219-318.
Danaher, P. A. (2001, March). _Learning on the run: Traveller education for itinerant show children in coastal and western Queensland_. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Faculty of Education and Creative Arts, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld, 2 vols., pp. xxii + 409.
Danaher, P. A., Coombes, P. N., & Kiddle, C. (2007). _Teaching Traveller children: Maximising learning outcomes_. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling, VA: Trentham Books, pp. xxiii + 122.
Danaher, P. A., De George-Walker, L., Henderson, R., Matthews, K. J., Midgley, W., Noble, K., Tyler, M. A., & Arden, C. H. (Eds.) (2012). _Constructing capacities: Building capabilities through learning and engagement_. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing pp. xv + 290.
Danaher, P. A., Kenny, M. D., & Remy Leder, J. (Eds.) (2009). _Traveller, nomadic and migrant education_ (_Routledge research in education vol. 24_). New York and London: Routledge, pp. xxvi + 241.
Danaher, P. A., Moriarty, B. J., & Danaher, G. R. (2009). _Mobile learning communities: Creating new educational futures_. New York: Routledge, pp. xiii + 210.
Danaher, P. A., & Umar, A. (Eds.) (2010, September). _Teacher education through open and distance learning (Perspectives on distance education)_. Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, pp. xii + 185.
Henderson, R., & Danaher, P. A. (Eds.) (2008). _Troubling terrains: Tactics for traversing and transforming contemporary educational research_. Flaxton, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. xvi + 235.
McConachie, J., Harreveld, R. E., Luck, J. T., Nouwens, F., & Danaher, P. A. (Eds.) (2006). _Doctrina perpetua: Brokering change, promoting innovation and transforming marginalisation in university learning and teaching_. Teneriffe, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. x + 267.
McConachie, J., Singh, M. J. G., Danaher, P. A., Nouwens, F., & Danaher, G. R. (Eds.) (2008). _Changing university learning and teaching: Engaging and mobilising leadership, quality and technology_. Teneriffe, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. xvii + 395.
Midgley, W., Danaher, P. A., & Baguley, M. (Eds.) (2012). _The role of participants in education research: Ethics, epistemologies, and methods (Routledge research in education vol. 87)_. New York: Routledge, pp. xviii + 262.
Midgley, W., Tyler, M. A., Danaher, P. A., & Mander, A. (Eds.) (2011). _Beyond binaries in education research (Routledge research in education vol. 59)_. New York: Routledge, pp. i-xxiv + 1-277.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

EDO4675 Research Approaches for Contemporary Educators (course examiner) (Semester 2)
EDR8000 Foundations of Contemporar Educational Research Methods (course examiner) (Semester 2)
EDR8001 Effective and Ethical Educational Research (course examiner) (Semester 2)

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 22 years
Other : 9 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Acting Dean