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Associate Professor

Telephone:	(61 8)  9370 6320
Facsimile:	(61 8)  9370 6044
Email:	jan.gray@ecu.edu.au
Campus:	Mount Lawley
Room:	ML17.146

 

Staff Qualifications

• Teachers Certificate, Other WA higher ed institution .
• PhD, Edith Cowan University, 2000 .
• Master of Education, Edith Cowan University, 1996 .
• Bachelor of Education, Edith Cowan University, 1993 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Completing Year 11: Providing Positive Retention for WA Students (Clarkson Community High School),  Clarkson Community High School,  Grant,  2011,  $7,273.
• Research and Mapping for the MCEECDYA Project: Student Academic Engagement,  Department of Education WA,  Grant,  2011,  $86,334.
• Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for WA Students Phase 3,  Sevenoaks Senior College,  Grant(**),  2010,  $11,818.
• Completing Year 11: Providing Positive Retention for WA Students (Clarkson Community High School),  Clarkson Community High School,  Grant(**),  2010,  $10,000.
• Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations,  Yayasan Sampoerna - Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute,  Grant,  2009,  $25,000.
• Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for WA Students Phase 3,  Sevenoaks Senior College,  Grant,  2009,  $13,905.
• Enhancing Year 12 Student Achievement. Phase 1 (Instrument Development),  Mount Lawley Senior High School,  Grant,  2009,  $4,545.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2009,  $27,637.
• Providing Quality Retention: Enhancing Student Confidence and Satisfaction Phase 2,  Sevenoaks Senior College,  Grant,  2009,  $9,200.
• Providing Quality Retention: Enhancing Student Confidence and Satisfaction Phase 2,  Sevenoaks Senior College,  Grant,  2008,  $40,448.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2008,  $12,727.
• Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations,  Yayasan Sampoerna - Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute,  Grant,  2008,  $4,852.
• Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations,  Yayasan Sampoerna - Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute,  Grant,  2007,  $130,061.
• Phase 1 of the Year 11 Quality Retention Project,  Sevenoaks Senior College,  Grant,  2007,  $18,182.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2007,  $110,546.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2006,  $118,182.
• Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Student Retention and Success in High School,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2006,  $232,411.
• Balga Senior High School ICT Evaluation 2006,  Balga Senior High School,  Grant,  2006,  $3,000.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2005,  $119,000.
• Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Student Retention and Success in High School,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2005,  $210,651.
• Aboriginal Students and Numeracy Phase II,  Association of Independent Schools of WA,  Grant,  2004,  $32,000.
• 100 Schools Project,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2004,  $92,363.
• Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Student Retention and Success in High School,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2004,  $202,254.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Beresford, Q., Gray, J., (2012), Models of policy development in Aboriginal Education. Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education, 120-148, Crawley.
• Gray, J., Partington, G., (2012), Attendance and non-attendance at school. Reform and resistance in Aboriginal education , 261-303, Crawley, WA.

Journal Articles

• Cahill, R., Gray, J., (2010), Funding and Secondary School Choice in Australia: A Historical Consideration. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 35(1), 121-138, Perth, WA.
• Pearce, M., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J., (2010), Capacity to be inclusive: Secondary teachers' perspective. Special Education Perspectives, 19(1), 15-27, NSW Australia.
• Pearce, M., Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G., (2010), Challenges of the secondary school context for inclusive teaching. Issues in Educational Research, 20(3), 294-313, Australia.
• Gray, J., Hackling, M., (2009), Wellbeing and Retention: A Senior Secondary Student Perspective. Australian Educational Researcher, 36(2), 119-145, The Netherlands.
• Pearce, M., Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G., (2009), The Inclusive Secondary Teacher: The Leaders' Perspective. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 34(6), 101-119, Australia.
• Gray, J., (2009), Staying at school: Reflective narratives of resistance and transition. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 10(5), 645-656, Oxon, UK, DOI: 10.1080/14623940903290711.
• Gray, J., Beresford, Q., (2008), A 'formidable challenge': Australia's quest for equity in Indigenous education. Australian Journal of Education, 52(2), 197-223.

Conference Publications

• Witten, H(., Waugh, R., Gray, J., (2012), School Administrators' Beliefs That School Improvements Were Due to Formal School Registration: A Rasch Measurement. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference Proceedings, 21, Sydney.
• Witten, H., Waugh, R., Gray, J., (2012), School administrators' beliefs that actual school improvements were due to formal school registration: Guttman scales and their inter-correlations. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference Proceedings, 21, Sydney, Australia.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Master of Social Science (Human Services),  The Construction Of Alienated Students And Students At Educational Risk: A Study Of The Justice And Education Discourse..
• Doctor of Education,  The Professional Development Of Tourist Police In Thailand: An Investigation Into English Communication Competency..
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An Investigation Into The Challenges Teachers Face When Working In A Low Socio-economic Primary School..

Co-principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Implementation Of Initiatives To Reform The Quality Of Education In Rural Ghanaian Junior High Schools.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Towards The Development Of Inclusive Standards In Secondary Education..

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  The Effect Of Money As A Context On Students' Mental Computation Performance For Years 3,5,7 And 9..