Donna Tangen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3052181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Tangen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Tangen |
| SIGNATURE | TANGEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1438-3183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using activity theory to identify contradictions impacting mentoring in schools following mentor training
This research adopted an activity theory lens to analyse the implementation of a teacher mentor training program. The aim of the research was to understand how contradictions within the mentoring activity system impacted on the implementation of mentoring in school contexts. The Teacher Mentor Training (TMT) program (pseudonym) was developed as a systemic response to national and state government reviews of teacher education in Australia. The TMT…
Long-term transformative learning from short-term outbound mobility programs and the connection to government’s soft power initiatives
In this paper we describe the long-term impact of engagement in a short-term outbound mobility program (OMP) that connected Australian preservice teachers with Malaysian preservice teachers at an education institution in Kuala Lumpur. The university program was funded in the first iteration by Australia’s Study Overseas Short-term Mobility program and subsequent iterations by the New Colombo Plan. These grants are a government soft power initiati…
Backward mapping from outcomes
Should Australia have a law against cyberbullying? Problematising the murky legal environment of cyberbullying from perspectives within schools
The challenges of geographical inclusive education in rural Bangladesh
This paper considers the challenges of promoting inclusive education in geographically isolated rural communities in Bangladesh. Inclusion is explored from both government and non-government (NGO) providers, and identifies challenges and opportunities for implementing inclusive practices. Challenges for implementing inclusion are linked to poverty, gender inequality, ethnicity, remoteness, language barriers, issues for children with disabilities,…
Building bridges between global concepts and local contexts
This paper reports on the implications of participation in an Australian Award Short Course Awards programme for inclusive educators from South Asia. Seventeen educators from Nepal, three from Bangladesh, and one from Sri Lanka participated in the short course in Brisbane, Australia with a follow up component in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the short course was to provide a platform for sharing knowledge of inclusive education as a global concept…
Inclusive education in the Asia Indo-Pacific region
The International Journal of Inclusive Education provides a meeting place for people to engage in dialogue about inclusive education, with the aim of dismantling forms of exclusion that people experience across education sectors. We, as researchers, work in partner- ship with teams of international educators and researchers and acknowledge that local interpretations of inclusive education are influenced and intersected by ‘ racial, class, caste, …
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of self as inclusive educators
Teacher education institutions play a key role in preparing pre-service teachers to graduate as competent and confident inclusive educators. Seeking to understand pre-service teachers’ current perceptions of diversity and inclusion, and how they perceived themselves as future inclusive educators, this qualitative study employed inductive analysis to explore pre-service teachers’ self-perceptions as inclusive teachers, utilising the theory of poss…
Incorporating translation in qualitative studies
Cross-language qualitative research in education continues to increase. However, there has been inadequate discussion in the literature concerning the translation process that ensures research trustworthiness applicable for bilingual researchers. Informed by the literature on evaluation criteria for qualitative data translation, this paper compares two different procedures for incorporating translation in education qualitative research to provide…
Building Intercultural Competence One "Patch" at a Time
This paper describes a program calledPatchesthat was implemented to assist a group of Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers to enhance their intercultural competence through their involvement in a series of reciprocal learning activities. Each learning experience was considered a "patch" that eventually created a "quilt of intercultural learning." The purpose of this study was to enhance the intercultural competence of domestic and intern…
Incorporating translation in qualitative studies
Cross-language qualitative research in education continues to increase. However, there has been inadequate discussion in the literature concerning the translation process that ensures research trustworthiness applicable for bilingual researchers. Informed by the literature on evaluation criteria for qualitative data translation, this paper compares two different procedures for incorporating translation in education qualitative research to provide…
Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of self as inclusive educators
Teacher education institutions play a key role in preparing pre-service teachers to graduate as competent and confident inclusive educators. Seeking to understand pre-service teachers’ current perceptions of diversity and inclusion, and how they perceived themselves as future inclusive educators, this qualitative study employed inductive analysis to explore pre-service teachers’ self-perceptions as inclusive teachers, utilising the theory of poss…
The challenges of geographical inclusive education in rural Bangladesh
This paper considers the challenges of promoting inclusive education in geographically isolated rural communities in Bangladesh. Inclusion is explored from both government and non-government (NGO) providers, and identifies challenges and opportunities for implementing inclusive practices. Challenges for implementing inclusion are linked to poverty, gender inequality, ethnicity, remoteness, language barriers, issues for children with disabilities,…
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
Building Intercultural Competence One "Patch" at a Time
This paper describes a program calledPatchesthat was implemented to assist a group of Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers to enhance their intercultural competence through their involvement in a series of reciprocal learning activities. Each learning experience was considered a "patch" that eventually created a "quilt of intercultural learning." The purpose of this study was to enhance the intercultural competence of domestic and intern…
Building bridges between global concepts and local contexts
This paper reports on the implications of participation in an Australian Award Short Course Awards programme for inclusive educators from South Asia. Seventeen educators from Nepal, three from Bangladesh, and one from Sri Lanka participated in the short course in Brisbane, Australia with a follow up component in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the short course was to provide a platform for sharing knowledge of inclusive education as a global concept…
Inclusive education in the Asia Indo-Pacific region
The International Journal of Inclusive Education provides a meeting place for people to engage in dialogue about inclusive education, with the aim of dismantling forms of exclusion that people experience across education sectors. We, as researchers, work in partner- ship with teams of international educators and researchers and acknowledge that local interpretations of inclusive education are influenced and intersected by ‘ racial, class, caste, …
Incorporating translation in qualitative studies
Cross-language qualitative research in education continues to increase. However, there has been inadequate discussion in the literature concerning the translation process that ensures research trustworthiness applicable for bilingual researchers. Informed by the literature on evaluation criteria for qualitative data translation, this paper compares two different procedures for incorporating translation in education qualitative research to provide…
Building Intercultural Competence One "Patch" at a Time
This paper describes a program calledPatchesthat was implemented to assist a group of Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers to enhance their intercultural competence through their involvement in a series of reciprocal learning activities. Each learning experience was considered a "patch" that eventually created a "quilt of intercultural learning." The purpose of this study was to enhance the intercultural competence of domestic and intern…
Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of self as inclusive educators
Teacher education institutions play a key role in preparing pre-service teachers to graduate as competent and confident inclusive educators. Seeking to understand pre-service teachers’ current perceptions of diversity and inclusion, and how they perceived themselves as future inclusive educators, this qualitative study employed inductive analysis to explore pre-service teachers’ self-perceptions as inclusive teachers, utilising the theory of poss…
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
The challenges of geographical inclusive education in rural Bangladesh
This paper considers the challenges of promoting inclusive education in geographically isolated rural communities in Bangladesh. Inclusion is explored from both government and non-government (NGO) providers, and identifies challenges and opportunities for implementing inclusive practices. Challenges for implementing inclusion are linked to poverty, gender inequality, ethnicity, remoteness, language barriers, issues for children with disabilities,…
Building bridges between global concepts and local contexts
This paper reports on the implications of participation in an Australian Award Short Course Awards programme for inclusive educators from South Asia. Seventeen educators from Nepal, three from Bangladesh, and one from Sri Lanka participated in the short course in Brisbane, Australia with a follow up component in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the short course was to provide a platform for sharing knowledge of inclusive education as a global concept…
Inclusive education in the Asia Indo-Pacific region
The International Journal of Inclusive Education provides a meeting place for people to engage in dialogue about inclusive education, with the aim of dismantling forms of exclusion that people experience across education sectors. We, as researchers, work in partner- ship with teams of international educators and researchers and acknowledge that local interpretations of inclusive education are influenced and intersected by ‘ racial, class, caste, …
Should Australia have a law against cyberbullying? Problematising the murky legal environment of cyberbullying from perspectives within schools
Long-term transformative learning from short-term outbound mobility programs and the connection to government’s soft power initiatives
In this paper we describe the long-term impact of engagement in a short-term outbound mobility program (OMP) that connected Australian preservice teachers with Malaysian preservice teachers at an education institution in Kuala Lumpur. The university program was funded in the first iteration by Australia’s Study Overseas Short-term Mobility program and subsequent iterations by the New Colombo Plan. These grants are a government soft power initiati…
Backward mapping from outcomes
Using activity theory to identify contradictions impacting mentoring in schools following mentor training
This research adopted an activity theory lens to analyse the implementation of a teacher mentor training program. The aim of the research was to understand how contradictions within the mentoring activity system impacted on the implementation of mentoring in school contexts. The Teacher Mentor Training (TMT) program (pseudonym) was developed as a systemic response to national and state government reviews of teacher education in Australia. The TMT…
Sociology (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (4 works) · Inclusion (mineral (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works)