Alison Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8650-4570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
University student experiences of feedback
This study contributes to the need for context-specific research into student feedback in higher education by investigating student experiences of receiving feedback in initial teacher education programs. A phenomenological case study methodology was used to investigate students’ satisfaction with assessment-based feedback and their perspectives of its value. Findings show that students value pre-assessment feedback as it has high utility and can…
Efficacious learning strategies and experiences for education recovery after disruption
Multidisciplinary approaches to establishing trauma informed practice for pre-service teachers
In response to the urgent need for teachers to be better equipped with strategies for responding to students who suffer the effects of complex trauma (CT), this inter-disciplinary study investigated the lived experiences of professionals (social workers, psychologists, criminal justice workers and community workers) working with school students with CT in out-of-school contexts. The aim of this study was to formulate strategic approaches from the…
Developing preservice teachers’ intercultural understanding and capability through wider field experience/service learning in Peru
Listen with your heart
The Wandiny creative gathering of Indigenous and non-Indigenous poets, artists, Elders, and participants across Australia actively sought to foreground First Nations voices, stories, poetry, art, and ontology. This paper presents the auto-ethnographic reflections from the event organisers, demonstrating that participation in a gathering that honours Eldership and Country is a profoundly personal and spiritual experience. Following a call-and-resp…
The role of teachers in mitigating student stress to progress learning
Many Australian young people experience mental health concerns, academic and study-related stresses, and socio-economic pressures. Phenomenological research conducted among primary and secondary schoolteachers in four Australian states investigated how teachers manage student wellbeing concerns and academic pressures and stresses. Findings identify key stresses that affect students’ performance and how teachers respond to these stresses to progre…
The need for dialogic reciprocal anti-discrimination practice and policy in faith-based schools
This paper investigates intersecting rights and ways of thinking in faith-based schools. It outlines current legislative attempts to manage anti-discrimination in Australian schools and proposes a dialogic model of reciprocal anti-discrimination for educational leaders and administrators. This paper proposes that reciprocal anti-discrimination will require rigorous clarity in organisational beliefs, values and philosophies of education. Differenc…
Teacher educators speaking up
This paper seeks to explore the lived experiences of teacher educators working in the midst of the current tumultuous and highly regulatory policy landscape. The paper will briefly outline the politics and policies that have profoundly shaped teacher educators’ work in Australia over the past 10 years. We write from our own experiences, as three actively-teaching teacher educators, working with a diverse and nontraditional student population in r…
The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos
Reciprocity between student success and community support has emerged as a strong theme in a phenomenological case study that was conducted amongst post‐primary educational migrant students 1 in Laos. Students clearly articulated their dependence upon community support and the ways in which they gave back to their communities in exchange for their continuing education. The descriptions of their experiences were indicative of hierarchical interdep…
A foot in both camps
This paper articulates lessons learned about without-prejudice teaching and learning from a researcher-practitioner who has experience in both developing and developed contexts. Developing countries often look to Western countries for education standards, but Western countries rarely look to developing contexts where theory is being generated about divisions and access to education. This comparative study integrates lessons learned from both cont…
Juggling With Both Hands Tied Behind My Back
Youth mental health in Australia is concerning with 25% of young people reported as experiencing mental health issues in a 12-month period. Meanwhile, Australian schools march forward with academic improvement agendas. Survey research conducted among primary and secondary school teachers, most drawn from the Australian state of Queensland, revealed that although teachers value student well-being initiatives, they are experiencing very real tensio…
The Function of Specialized Vocabulary Development in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Traumatized Populations
An education for peace model that centres on belief systems
The education for peace model (EFPM) presented in this paper was developed within a theoretical framework of complexity science and critical theory and was derived from a review of an empirical research project conducted in a conflict affected environment. The model positions belief systems at the centre and is socioecologically systemic in design to capture the holistic dynamic of education within community. There is increasing interest, in both…
Organic and institutional views of learning in Northern Uganda
The role that teachers play in overcoming the effects of stress and trauma on children’s social psychological development
The role that teachers play in overcoming the effects of stress and trauma on children’s social psychological development
Listen with your heart
The Wandiny creative gathering of Indigenous and non-Indigenous poets, artists, Elders, and participants across Australia actively sought to foreground First Nations voices, stories, poetry, art, and ontology. This paper presents the auto-ethnographic reflections from the event organisers, demonstrating that participation in a gathering that honours Eldership and Country is a profoundly personal and spiritual experience. Following a call-and-resp…
A foot in both camps
This paper articulates lessons learned about without-prejudice teaching and learning from a researcher-practitioner who has experience in both developing and developed contexts. Developing countries often look to Western countries for education standards, but Western countries rarely look to developing contexts where theory is being generated about divisions and access to education. This comparative study integrates lessons learned from both cont…
Organic and institutional views of learning in Northern Uganda
Juggling With Both Hands Tied Behind My Back
Youth mental health in Australia is concerning with 25% of young people reported as experiencing mental health issues in a 12-month period. Meanwhile, Australian schools march forward with academic improvement agendas. Survey research conducted among primary and secondary school teachers, most drawn from the Australian state of Queensland, revealed that although teachers value student well-being initiatives, they are experiencing very real tensio…
An education for peace model that centres on belief systems
The education for peace model (EFPM) presented in this paper was developed within a theoretical framework of complexity science and critical theory and was derived from a review of an empirical research project conducted in a conflict affected environment. The model positions belief systems at the centre and is socioecologically systemic in design to capture the holistic dynamic of education within community. There is increasing interest, in both…
The role that teachers play in overcoming the effects of stress and trauma on children’s social psychological development
Organic and institutional views of learning in Northern Uganda
An education for peace model that centres on belief systems
The education for peace model (EFPM) presented in this paper was developed within a theoretical framework of complexity science and critical theory and was derived from a review of an empirical research project conducted in a conflict affected environment. The model positions belief systems at the centre and is socioecologically systemic in design to capture the holistic dynamic of education within community. There is increasing interest, in both…
The Function of Specialized Vocabulary Development in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Traumatized Populations
The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos
Reciprocity between student success and community support has emerged as a strong theme in a phenomenological case study that was conducted amongst post‐primary educational migrant students 1 in Laos. Students clearly articulated their dependence upon community support and the ways in which they gave back to their communities in exchange for their continuing education. The descriptions of their experiences were indicative of hierarchical interdep…
A foot in both camps
This paper articulates lessons learned about without-prejudice teaching and learning from a researcher-practitioner who has experience in both developing and developed contexts. Developing countries often look to Western countries for education standards, but Western countries rarely look to developing contexts where theory is being generated about divisions and access to education. This comparative study integrates lessons learned from both cont…
Juggling With Both Hands Tied Behind My Back
Youth mental health in Australia is concerning with 25% of young people reported as experiencing mental health issues in a 12-month period. Meanwhile, Australian schools march forward with academic improvement agendas. Survey research conducted among primary and secondary school teachers, most drawn from the Australian state of Queensland, revealed that although teachers value student well-being initiatives, they are experiencing very real tensio…
Teacher educators speaking up
This paper seeks to explore the lived experiences of teacher educators working in the midst of the current tumultuous and highly regulatory policy landscape. The paper will briefly outline the politics and policies that have profoundly shaped teacher educators’ work in Australia over the past 10 years. We write from our own experiences, as three actively-teaching teacher educators, working with a diverse and nontraditional student population in r…
The role of teachers in mitigating student stress to progress learning
Many Australian young people experience mental health concerns, academic and study-related stresses, and socio-economic pressures. Phenomenological research conducted among primary and secondary schoolteachers in four Australian states investigated how teachers manage student wellbeing concerns and academic pressures and stresses. Findings identify key stresses that affect students’ performance and how teachers respond to these stresses to progre…
The need for dialogic reciprocal anti-discrimination practice and policy in faith-based schools
This paper investigates intersecting rights and ways of thinking in faith-based schools. It outlines current legislative attempts to manage anti-discrimination in Australian schools and proposes a dialogic model of reciprocal anti-discrimination for educational leaders and administrators. This paper proposes that reciprocal anti-discrimination will require rigorous clarity in organisational beliefs, values and philosophies of education. Differenc…
Developing preservice teachers’ intercultural understanding and capability through wider field experience/service learning in Peru
Listen with your heart
The Wandiny creative gathering of Indigenous and non-Indigenous poets, artists, Elders, and participants across Australia actively sought to foreground First Nations voices, stories, poetry, art, and ontology. This paper presents the auto-ethnographic reflections from the event organisers, demonstrating that participation in a gathering that honours Eldership and Country is a profoundly personal and spiritual experience. Following a call-and-resp…
Multidisciplinary approaches to establishing trauma informed practice for pre-service teachers
In response to the urgent need for teachers to be better equipped with strategies for responding to students who suffer the effects of complex trauma (CT), this inter-disciplinary study investigated the lived experiences of professionals (social workers, psychologists, criminal justice workers and community workers) working with school students with CT in out-of-school contexts. The aim of this study was to formulate strategic approaches from the…
University student experiences of feedback
This study contributes to the need for context-specific research into student feedback in higher education by investigating student experiences of receiving feedback in initial teacher education programs. A phenomenological case study methodology was used to investigate students’ satisfaction with assessment-based feedback and their perspectives of its value. Findings show that students value pre-assessment feedback as it has high utility and can…
Efficacious learning strategies and experiences for education recovery after disruption
Pedagogy (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works)