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Leesa Wheelahan
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Leesa Wheelahan works at the L.H. Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management at the University of Melbourne. She has taught in tertiary education for approximately 17 years, which includes time as a Technical and Further Education teacher, in policy development, as an academic developer, and as a teacher of vocational education and training teachers.
Tertiary education policy, relations between vocational education and training and higher education, tertiary education teacher qualifications and continuing professional development, the role of knowledge in vocational qualifications and student equity.
Her current focus is on higher education in TAFE. She is leading a similar project on private providers that offer both VET and higher education, and universities that offer some VET. Leesa led a recently completed project on the quality of teaching in VET, and VET teacher education programs and continuing professional development.
Memberships
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM)
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
- Australian Vocational Education and Training Research of Australia (AVETRA)
- International Association for Critical Realism (IACR)
Editorial board memberships
- Member of the editorial board of Community College Review from 2011
- Member of the editorial board of Pacific-Asian Education from 2011
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education and Work from 2010.
- Member of the editorial board of Teaching in Higher Education, from 2008
- International advisor for the Journal of Access Policy & Practice, from 2006 – 2009.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Universities Review, from 2006.
Board/Committee memberships
- Appointed to the Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Training (MCTEE) Access and Participation Principal Committee 2010.
- Member of the William Angliss Institute of TAFE Higher Education Academic Board 2010
Wheelahan, Leesa (2010) Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum: A Social Realist Argument, London: Routledge.
Wheelahan, Leesa; Moodie, Gavin; Billett, Stephen; and, Kelly, Ann (2009) Higher Education in TAFE, Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education Research, http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2167.html.
Wheelahan, Leesa (2010) ‘Tertiary education as insurance against risk – what are the outcomes? For whom?’ in Marston, Greg; Moss, Jeremy; and Quiggin, John (eds.) Risk, Welfare and Work, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Wheelahan, Leesa (2009) ‘The limits of competency-based training and the implications for work’ in Field, John; Gallacher, Jim; & Ingram, Robert (eds.), Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning, London: Routledge.
Moodie, Gavin & Wheelahan, Leesa (2009) ‘The significance of Australian vocational education institutions in opening access to higher education’, Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 356-370.
Wheelahan, Leesa (2009) ‘Do educational pathways contribute to equity in tertiary education in Australia?’ Critical Studies in Education, Vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 261-275.
Wheelahan, Leesa; & Moodie, Gavin (2010) The quality of teaching in VET: Final report and recommendations produced for the Quality of Teaching in VET project, Australian College of Educators, http://www.lhmartininstitute.edu.au/research-and-publications/research/1-study-on-the-quality-of-teaching-in-vet
Buchanan, John; Yu, Serena; Wheelahan, Leesa; Keating, Jack and Marginson, Simon (2010), Impact Analysis of the proposed strengthened Australian Qualifications Framework Conducted for the Australian Qualifications Framework Council (AQFC), Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, <http://www.aqf.edu.au/Portals/0/Documents/AQFC%20-%20impact%20analysis%20-%20final%208Oct10%20(3).pdf> viewed 25 October 2010.
Buchanan, John; Yu, Serena; Marginson, Simon; and Wheelahan, Leesa (2009) Education, Work and Economic Renewal: An issues paper prepared for the Australian Education Union, June 2009, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Publications/2009/JBuchananreport2009.pdf
Wheelahan, Leesa (2009) ‘From old to new: the Australian Qualifications Framework’, in Allais, Stephanie; Raff, David; Strathdee Rob; Wheelahan, Leesa; & Young, Michael, Learning from the First Qualifications Frameworks, Employment Working Paper No. 45, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, http://www.ilo.org/skills/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCM_041902/index.htm.
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