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Dr Joan Conway

Name :	Dr Joan Conway
Position :	Lecturer (School Pedagogies/On-Line Pedagogies)
Section :	Faculty of Education Education
Office :	K2 224
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2350
Extension :	2350
E-mail :
Qualifications :	DipT, BEd Kelvin GroveCAE MEd Deakin PhD USQ

Professional Memberships

Executive Member of Australian Council for Educational Leaders Queensland (ACELQ)
Member of Australian College of Educators (ACE)
Executive member of Darling Downs Branch of ACE

Research Interests

21st Century Teacher Professionals and Schools
Teachers' Knowledge and Shared Pedagogical Meaning
School Revitalisation as a Process
Future Schools and Communities

Research team member of Leadership Research (LRI) group and project coordinator of IDEAS (Innovative Designs for Enhancing Achievement in Schools) http://ideas.usq.edu.au

Recent Doctoral Thesis completed 2008:
Collective Intelligence in Schools: An exploration of teacher engagement in the making of significant new meaning

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Crowther, F., Abawi, L., Andrews, D., Conway, J. M., Dawson, M., Lewis, M., Morgan, A., & Petersen, Shauna (2010). Building and Sustaining Capacity in Your School – The COSMIC C-B model. Monograph Series 47, Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL), Penrith, Australia.

Andrews D., & the USQ-LRI Research Team (2009). The Victorian IDEAS Project: Research Report - report for the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Available from http://ideas.usq.edu.au/Portals/1/docs/Open%20site/Vic_research_sept%20FINAL.pdf

Danaher, P. A., Hickey, A., Brown, A., & Conway, J. M. (2007). Exploring elements for creating an online community of learners within a distance education course at the University of Southern Queensland. In R. J. Luppicini (Ed.), Learning communities in online education (pp. 219-240). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Erwee, R. & Conway, J. M. (2006). "Cocreation of Knowledge: Roles of Coresearchers in Research Teams", The Educational Forum, 70(2) pp.171-184.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

EDG 3000 Designing for Diversity
EDU 5221 Professional Learning
EDR 8061 Masters Project II
PRI 4001 Internship: Professional Project
GDE 4006 Relating and Collaborating

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 12 years
Other : 23 years