Emeritus Professor David Giles
Academic Status
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
place
Education Building
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia
Qualifications
PhD, Auckland University of Technology
Key responsibilities
Former Dean, School of Education (2012-2016).
Professor, Educational Leadership & Management
Co-Director, FLAME research group
Research expertise
Education systems
Research interests
David has a particular interest in hermeneutic phenomenology and appreciative inquiry research methodologies as vehicles for exploring the experiential, relational & phenomenological nature of education and educational leadership.
Current individual and collaborative research projects- Exploring strengths-based initiatives in primary schooling
- Alternative pedagogical approaches in the educational leadership: Starting from the phenomenon of leadership
- Case study of organizational re-culturing within a university department
- Appreciatively appraising the transformative effects of a philosophy course in an ECE program
- Getting a 'feel' for an organisation's culture: Enabling educational leaders with a qualitative questionnaire
- Principals professional learning
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor:
Educational leadership (5),
Higher Education (1)
Associate supervisor:
Ideological considerations of educational policy (1),
Strengths based organisational development (1),
Phenomenological research in Youth Work Education (1),
Educational leadership (2)
Higher degree by research student achievements
Christine Edwards
MEd(Leadership & Management) - NOV 2013
Adrian Rudzinski
EdD - MAR 2014
Joanne Pimlott
EdD - NOV 2013
Publications
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