Doctor Joanne Orlando
ACADEMIC COURSE ADVISOR (Early Childhood Eductaion),
Early Childhood Education (SoE)
SENIOR LECTURER,
Early Childhood Education (SoE)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Technology, Sydney
- BEd Catholic Teachers College
- DipTeach Catholic Teachers College
- MEd University of Western Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Early Childhood Education (SoE)
- Early Childhood Education (SoE)
Contact
| Email: | j.orlando@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6273 |
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| Location: | 4.G.26 Bankstown |
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Biography
Joanne's research and teaching focuses on the use of technology in learning. In particular her work examines how technology sits alongside established practices for teaching and learning and how technology contributes to that practice and vice versa. Her work examines this focus comprehensively to include early childhood education, school, and the learning of adults outside formal education.
Joanne is an executive member of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). She currently holds the portfolio of Research Development and convenes the highly successful, annual "Utilising Theory in Research" workshops.
Joanne has a strong interest in working with the media to enhance the community's understanding of learning using technology. Previous to her academic position at UWS she was a writer and adviser for the ABC television early childhood program 'PlaySchool' for eight years. She now makes regular expert commentary in print, radio and television media.
Joanne is the Academic Course Adviser for the Early Childhood Education program at UWS.
Joanne established and is editor of EdNews, the UWS School of Education newsletter.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Orlando.
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Orlando, J. (2008), 'Online teaching in universities and management: Divided and shaky grounds for change', Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology, Post Pressed 9781921214387.
Journal Articles
- Orlando, J. (2009), 'Understanding changes in teachers' ICT practices: a longitudinal perspective', Journal of Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 12.
- Orlando, J. (2007), 'Computer-based Learning in a Primary School: Differences between the early and later years of primary schooling', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 15.
Research
Completed Projects
Fair Go Research Project: Fair Go is funded by the Australian Research Council in collaboration with DET (NSW) and UWS. In this project extensive case studies were undertaken of 30 “exemplary” teachers of students in poverty. Joanne's focus is the ways exemplary teachers in poverty use technology in their teaching.
The e.ffects Project: An ARC funded collaborative research project undertaken by University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) that focuses on student learning in schools and classes where Computer Based Learning (CBL) is used. The objective of the study was to identify factors within primary and secondary schools that contribute to integration strategies with positive benefits for students.Collaborators: Professors Lyn Yates and Shirley Alexander, Dr Debra Hayes (UTS)
Net Gain: This project was funded by the NSW DET, Curriculum Support Directorate. It focused on the integration of computer based learning in NSW government schools. Collaborators: Dr Debra Hayes, Dr Sandy Schuck & Gilda Segal (UTS)
This information has been contributed by Doctor Orlando.
Supervision
Doctor Orlando is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Attitudes and Beliefs Towards the Encouragement of Emerging Mathematical Understandings of Children in the Early Years |
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| Title: | A Path to Professional Knowledge and Identity Building: Self Study of a Native Chinese Language Two Teacher in Western Sydney Schools |
| Field of Research: | TEACHER EDUCATION |
| Title: | Investigating the Lived Experiences of Career-change Teachers in their First Year of Teaching |
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| Title: | Science Education and E-Learning in Girls Secondary Schools in Saudi Arabia |
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| Title: | Teaching English Vocabulary via Video Games |
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| Title: | Visual Pedagogy in the New Digital Era: Analyze the Role of the New Media in Language Teaching Practice and in Cross-Cultural Study |
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Previous Supervision
| Title: | Reading Respect in Australian Schooling |
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| Field of Research: | EDUCATION |
| Thesis: | Reading Respect in Australian Schooling |
| Title: | A Chinese Beginning Teacher's Professional Identity Transformation: An Auto-Ethnographic Study |
| Field of Research: | SOUTHERN ASIAN LANGUAGES |
| Thesis: | A Chinese Beginning Teacher's Professional Identity Transformation: An Auto-Ethnographic Study |
| Title: | A 'Self-Study' of a Chinese Teacher-Researcher's practice of transnational knowledge exchange: Stimulating Students' Mandarin Learning in Australia |
| Field of Research: | EDUCATION |
| Thesis: | A 'Self-Study' of a Chinese Teacher-Researcher's practice of transnational knowledge exchange: Stimulating Students' Mandarin Learning in Australia |
| Title: | The Degree of Secondary School Principals in Jeddah Educational District Employment of Information in Technology in their Administrative Tasks |
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| Thesis: | The Degree of Secondary School Principals in Jeddah Educational District Employment of Information in Technology in their Administrative Tasks |
| Title: | Evaluation of Second Language Curriculum in Practice |
| Field of Research: | |
| Thesis: | Evaluation of Second Language Curriculum in Practice |
Media
Media Contact Details
| Media Officer: | UWS Media Unit |
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| Phone: | (02) 9678 7083 |
| Email: | media@uws.edu.au |
