Michael Witter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Witter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Witter |
| SIGNATURE | WITTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Education and Arts Australian Catholic University Melbourne Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4244-1624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of trauma‐informed teacher education
In this study, two cohorts of university students in an employment‐based teacher education course undertook trauma‐informed education training embedded within their coursework to enhance their preparedness to work with diverse learners and their self‐efficacy for trauma‐informed teaching. With increased calls for teacher preparation programmes to better educate preservice teachers about trauma and its impact on learners, trauma‐informed teacher e…
Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs about trauma-informed education practices
Three distinct facets of teacher belief about trauma-informed practice were validated. • Results validated conceptual dimensions of trauma-informed practice. • Preservice teachers had comparatively higher levels of efficacy for self-regulation and resilience than trauma-responsive strategies. This study situated preservice teacher self-efficacy beliefs within the context of trauma-informed education practices. The study aimed to validate a measur…
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness
A critical aim of teacher quality research is to identify and distil its multiple components. While many such components have been identified in the literature, there is a scarcity of research that has attempted to empirically investigate how these elements integrate within a larger profile of teacher quality, including how particular teachers' beliefs, behaviours and outcomes cluster into unique profiles of teachers. In this study, a group of Au…
Covid-19
The Caribbean has experienced an overlapping and interconnected series of challenges, including economic, social, and environmental, which pose an existential threat to the region. This article focuses on the nature of this threat as it evolved before and during the pandemic crisis. Under neoliberal globalization, Caribbean economies transformed themselves rapidly into service providers, most having resorted to developing a tourism sector, while …
Caribbean Economic Thought
The reflections provided in this article were presented in the 4th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture, delivered at the SMAIAS/ASN Summer School in January 2021. The article focuses on the critical tradition of economic knowledge and thought about the socio-economic development of the Caribbean, which began in the last decades of the colonial era. The advances made through the early Independence period were concerned with the problems of individual countr…
The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade
Part I: Theoretical Issues: Dependence, cumulative causation and the Caribbean, Nikolaos Karagiannis Are there any limits to 'globalization'? International trade, capital flows and borders, Grahame F. Thompson The political economy of international integration: small states in the Caribbean and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Robert Read Globalization, technology, trade and development, Anthony Clayton. Part II: Policy Issues: Monetar…
Small garden-- bitter weed
Covid-19
The Caribbean has experienced an overlapping and interconnected series of challenges, including economic, social, and environmental, which pose an existential threat to the region. This article focuses on the nature of this threat as it evolved before and during the pandemic crisis. Under neoliberal globalization, Caribbean economies transformed themselves rapidly into service providers, most having resorted to developing a tourism sector, while …
Small garden-- bitter weed
The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade
Part I: Theoretical Issues: Dependence, cumulative causation and the Caribbean, Nikolaos Karagiannis Are there any limits to 'globalization'? International trade, capital flows and borders, Grahame F. Thompson The political economy of international integration: small states in the Caribbean and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Robert Read Globalization, technology, trade and development, Anthony Clayton. Part II: Policy Issues: Monetar…
Covid-19
The Caribbean has experienced an overlapping and interconnected series of challenges, including economic, social, and environmental, which pose an existential threat to the region. This article focuses on the nature of this threat as it evolved before and during the pandemic crisis. Under neoliberal globalization, Caribbean economies transformed themselves rapidly into service providers, most having resorted to developing a tourism sector, while …
Caribbean Economic Thought
The reflections provided in this article were presented in the 4th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture, delivered at the SMAIAS/ASN Summer School in January 2021. The article focuses on the critical tradition of economic knowledge and thought about the socio-economic development of the Caribbean, which began in the last decades of the colonial era. The advances made through the early Independence period were concerned with the problems of individual countr…
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness
A critical aim of teacher quality research is to identify and distil its multiple components. While many such components have been identified in the literature, there is a scarcity of research that has attempted to empirically investigate how these elements integrate within a larger profile of teacher quality, including how particular teachers' beliefs, behaviours and outcomes cluster into unique profiles of teachers. In this study, a group of Au…
Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs about trauma-informed education practices
Three distinct facets of teacher belief about trauma-informed practice were validated. • Results validated conceptual dimensions of trauma-informed practice. • Preservice teachers had comparatively higher levels of efficacy for self-regulation and resilience than trauma-responsive strategies. This study situated preservice teacher self-efficacy beliefs within the context of trauma-informed education practices. The study aimed to validate a measur…
The impact of trauma‐informed teacher education
In this study, two cohorts of university students in an employment‐based teacher education course undertook trauma‐informed education training embedded within their coursework to enhance their preparedness to work with diverse learners and their self‐efficacy for trauma‐informed teaching. With increased calls for teacher preparation programmes to better educate preservice teachers about trauma and its impact on learners, trauma‐informed teacher e…
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic conditions (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works)