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Prof Graham Dellar

Dip Teach)(STC); THC; BA PGrad Dip C&ET Distinction; MEd Distinction; PhD (Curtin) MAARE; MAERA; FWAIER
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    • Role:
    • Professor
    • Department:
    • School of Education
    • Location:
    • Education 226
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 2164
Graham is currently the Postgraduate Programs Coordinator for the School of Education. Graham has taught at the postgraduate level in the areas of Educational Leadership and Curriculum Theory in units focusing on Educational Innovation and Change, School Improvement,Teacher Professional Development, Curriculum Theory, Educational Leadership and Educational Policy Studies. He is involved in consultancy in the areas of school improvement, change management, educational leadership, middle schooling and program evaluation.

Research Interests

  • School Development /Improvement: Issues and Processes;
  • Educational Leadership;
  • Change theory and change management;
  • Organisational Climate/Culture;
  • Curriculum design, implementation and evaluation;
  • Policy and Administration.

Research Projects

Dellar, Cavanagh & Reynolds. ARC Linkage grant Western Australian rural and remote schooling: The influence of learning environments on student participation and retention (ARC and Industry Partner ) $610,000.00 Zhang and Dellar ARC Discovery Grant, English as a spoken lingua franca in ASEAN: a study of its linguistic and socio-cultural features’ $80,000 Dellar, Cavanagh & Giddings. ARC Linkage grant Building professional learning communities in a large Australian School District: School leadership within an information and communications technology (ICT) environment (ARC and Industry Partner) $402,921.00; Dellar & McDonald. Discovering Democracy Evaluation Phase II. DEET Funded $15,000.00; Dellar, Cavanagh & Boland. Cannington Community College, Cecil Andrews SHS, East Maddington Primary School. $30,000.00 grant for Quality teaching Program funding;

Memberships

  • Member of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association;
  • Member of the American Educational Research Association;
  • Member of the Australian Council of Educational Administration.

Awards

Curtin University Post Graduate Research Scholarship, 1988 – 1990 Commonwealth Post Graduate Scholarship, 1986 – 1987 Curtin Alumni Medal for Academic Excellance (PhD) WAIER Early Career Award WAIER Fellow

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Cavanagh, R, and Dellar, G. 2003. Organisational and learning community conceptions of schools: Implications for understanding and researching school improvment. In On the Forefront of Educational Psychology, eds Susan Boriotti, Donna Dennis, 257-275. New York, U.S.A: Nova Science Publishers.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Brooks, Z, Dellar, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2011. Middle-level Leaders: Measuring their Perceptions of the Role. AARE Conference 2011, 27/11/2011. Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Association for Research in Education.
  • Ansell, D, Reynolds, P, Dellar, G, Cavanagh, R, and Moore, L. 2006. From retention to participation: Reconceptualising student involvement in education, training and employment. AARE 2006 International Education Research Conference, 27/10/2006. Adelaide, South Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education.
  • Cavanagh, R, and Dellar, G. 2004. Conjoint Use of Rasch and Correlational Analyses in Learning Environment Instrument Development. American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2004 Annual Meeting, 12/04/2004. San Diego, California, America: n/a.
  • Cavanagh, R, and Dellar, G. 2004. Measuring Student Perceptions of Classroom Information and Communication Technology Learning Culture.. American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2004 Annual Meeting, 12/04/2004. San Diego, California, America: n/a.
  • Dellar, G, Cavanagh, R, and MacNeill, C. 2004. The Principalship and Pedagogic Leadership. American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2004 Annual Meeting, 01/04/2004. San Diego, California, USA: CTB McGraw-Hill.
  • Dellar, G, Waugh, R, and Cavanagh, R. 2003. Aligning Secondary school classroom culture and pedagogy with attitudinal and acheivement outcomes. Educational Research, Risks, & Dilemmas, 01/12/2003. Auckland New Zealand: The New Zealand Association for Research in Education.
  • Harris, M, Cavanagh, R, Dellar, G, Romanoski, J, and Giddings, G. 2003. Application of the Rasch model and traditional statistics to develop a measure of primary school classroom learning culture. Educational Research, Risks, & Dilemmas, 01/12/2003. Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Association for Research in Education.
  • Harris, M, Romanoski, J, Dellar, G, Giddings, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2003. Development of a Rasch model scale to measure student information and communication technology learning self-reported outcomes, behaviours and attitudes. Educational Research, Risks, & Dilemmas, 01/12/2003. Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Association for Research Education.
  • Dellar, G, Cavanagh, R, and Reynolds, P. 2003. Orienting dialogues concerning school renewal. International Education Research Conference AARE - NZARE, 30/11/2003. Auckland, New Zealand: Australian Association for Research in Education.
  • Boland, T, Dellar, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2001. EVALUATION OF SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING INTENDED TO CREATE A MIDDLE SCHOOLING CULTURE. AARE, INTERNAITONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 01/12/2001. FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA: AARE INC.
  • Dellar, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2001. PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. AARE, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 01/12/2001. FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA: AARE INC.
  • Dellar, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2001. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR COMMUNITY BUILDING?. AARE, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 01/12/2001. FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA: AARE INC.
  • Dellar, G, and Cavanagh, R. 2001. SECONDARY SCHOOL CULTURE AND IMPROVEMENT: TEACHER, STUDENT AND PARENT PERSPECTIVES. AARE, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 01/12/2001. FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: AARE INC.