Deborah Heck
Biographic Data
| ID | 225931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Heck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Heck |
| SIGNATURE | HECK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0235-8546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Questions of ‘teacher quality’
The quality of teachers and teacher-education continues to be a contentious focus of political debate internationally. Many have identified predominantly negative discursive representations of educators in politics, perpetuating myths of sub-standard teacher and teacher-educator quality. Much research has investigated the incentives and effects of these prevailing political discourses, but less researched is how such discourses operate and the te…
Positioning and repositioning in higher education
Sustainability is an important issue that we all face, including higher education students.We assert that the transition into the contemporary higher education context needs educators to plan transition pedagogy that engages students with the world during their studies, instead of solely using curriculum as preparation for the future world of work.To investigate this, we explored how students position themselves in relation to sustainability as p…
Teacher educators as public intellectuals
As higher education providers respond to increasing financial pressures with restructures and downsizing, teacher education is often subsumed into larger faculties that result in teacher educators’ work, especially related to accreditation lost in the myriad of benchmarks and measures to be achieved. Even during a worldwide pandemic, teaching and teacher education continue to be subjected to scrutiny and portrayed as problematic by policymakers. …
What has been "missing" or "missed" over the last 50 years in APJTE
The editors of APJTE invited a group of teacher education scholars to have a conversation about what is 'missing' from the journal and/ or the field. In line with our celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the journal, we thought that it would be interesting to think about what hasn't been in the journal but might have been. We worked with people who have been, or are becoming, influential in the field, and/ or have been editors of the journal b…
Thinking (Now) Out of Place? Scripting and Performing Collective Dissent Inside the Corporatized University
As a response to the corporatization of the university, nine scholars worked together to create spaces that fostered the possibility of collective dissensus. Using scholarly performative methods, we have sought to push back against the increasing corporate incursions into our institutions of higher learning-the over-valuing of money, measures, and metrics which encroach upon our capacity to think. This one-act ethnodrama below is one of our respo…
The construction of teacher identity in an alternative education context
Relational ways of being an educator
Despite complex reasons for disengagement and exclusion from conventional schooling, all children have a right to education that is of a high quality. Disenfranchised young people require alternatives for re-engaging in education. This necessitates a rethinking of what it means to be an educator in alternative education settings and how to relate to young people who have experienced exclusion and failure in conventional school settings. Relationa…
Alternative Education Engaging Indigenous Young People
This article will discuss some of the findings from a qualitative research project that explored the connections between alternative education and Indigenous learners. This study investigated how flexi school leaders reported they were supporting Indigenous young people to remain engaged in education. The results of the survey provide demographic data focusing on Indigenous participation in this sample of flexi schools. The results revealed that …
Relational ways of being an educator
Despite complex reasons for disengagement and exclusion from conventional schooling, all children have a right to education that is of a high quality. Disenfranchised young people require alternatives for re-engaging in education. This necessitates a rethinking of what it means to be an educator in alternative education settings and how to relate to young people who have experienced exclusion and failure in conventional school settings. Relationa…
Alternative Education Engaging Indigenous Young People
This article will discuss some of the findings from a qualitative research project that explored the connections between alternative education and Indigenous learners. This study investigated how flexi school leaders reported they were supporting Indigenous young people to remain engaged in education. The results of the survey provide demographic data focusing on Indigenous participation in this sample of flexi schools. The results revealed that …
What has been "missing" or "missed" over the last 50 years in APJTE
The editors of APJTE invited a group of teacher education scholars to have a conversation about what is 'missing' from the journal and/ or the field. In line with our celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the journal, we thought that it would be interesting to think about what hasn't been in the journal but might have been. We worked with people who have been, or are becoming, influential in the field, and/ or have been editors of the journal b…
The construction of teacher identity in an alternative education context
Relational ways of being an educator
Despite complex reasons for disengagement and exclusion from conventional schooling, all children have a right to education that is of a high quality. Disenfranchised young people require alternatives for re-engaging in education. This necessitates a rethinking of what it means to be an educator in alternative education settings and how to relate to young people who have experienced exclusion and failure in conventional school settings. Relationa…
Alternative Education Engaging Indigenous Young People
This article will discuss some of the findings from a qualitative research project that explored the connections between alternative education and Indigenous learners. This study investigated how flexi school leaders reported they were supporting Indigenous young people to remain engaged in education. The results of the survey provide demographic data focusing on Indigenous participation in this sample of flexi schools. The results revealed that …
The construction of teacher identity in an alternative education context
Thinking (Now) Out of Place? Scripting and Performing Collective Dissent Inside the Corporatized University
As a response to the corporatization of the university, nine scholars worked together to create spaces that fostered the possibility of collective dissensus. Using scholarly performative methods, we have sought to push back against the increasing corporate incursions into our institutions of higher learning-the over-valuing of money, measures, and metrics which encroach upon our capacity to think. This one-act ethnodrama below is one of our respo…
Teacher educators as public intellectuals
As higher education providers respond to increasing financial pressures with restructures and downsizing, teacher education is often subsumed into larger faculties that result in teacher educators’ work, especially related to accreditation lost in the myriad of benchmarks and measures to be achieved. Even during a worldwide pandemic, teaching and teacher education continue to be subjected to scrutiny and portrayed as problematic by policymakers. …
What has been "missing" or "missed" over the last 50 years in APJTE
The editors of APJTE invited a group of teacher education scholars to have a conversation about what is 'missing' from the journal and/ or the field. In line with our celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the journal, we thought that it would be interesting to think about what hasn't been in the journal but might have been. We worked with people who have been, or are becoming, influential in the field, and/ or have been editors of the journal b…
Positioning and repositioning in higher education
Sustainability is an important issue that we all face, including higher education students.We assert that the transition into the contemporary higher education context needs educators to plan transition pedagogy that engages students with the world during their studies, instead of solely using curriculum as preparation for the future world of work.To investigate this, we explored how students position themselves in relation to sustainability as p…
Questions of ‘teacher quality’
The quality of teachers and teacher-education continues to be a contentious focus of political debate internationally. Many have identified predominantly negative discursive representations of educators in politics, perpetuating myths of sub-standard teacher and teacher-educator quality. Much research has investigated the incentives and effects of these prevailing political discourses, but less researched is how such discourses operate and the te…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works)