Maria Gindidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6508481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Gindidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Gindidis |
| SIGNATURE | GINDIDIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1551-2602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A boundary-crossing journey
This autoethnographic research article explores the author’s journey from a student from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background to a teacher from a CALD background and then a researcher from a CALD background. The autoethnography unfolds in three interconnected stages, analysed through the lens of Boundary Crossing Theory, which highlights the learning and identity formation that occur when individuals move across diverse educa…
Teaching culture in a competitive market
In 2012, the White Paper Australia in the Asian Century urged governments across Australia to improve access to Asian studies in schools. Despite this, schools still struggle to maintain interest and success for secondary students, particularly those without an Asian family background. In response to the low numbers of non-Chinese-background students graduating from secondary schools with proficiency in Chinese language, the Victorian government …
Education, leadership and diaspora
This paper is a scoping review of literature exploring the range and nature of research activity regarding women leading education within marginalized communities in Australia and England. Such practice of women’s educational leadership regularly occurs beyond formal constructs of schooling, and is often immersed in the vulnerabilities of indigenous, diasporic and other marginalized populations, yet remains invisible in scholarship on leading edu…
Paradoxes of in-school teacher coaching by outsiders
Lurking with intent
Attitudes of Iranian Community Parents in Australia towards their Children’s Language Maintenance
Issues of language shift (LS) and language maintenance (LM) are inevitable consequences of globalization and increased mobility of human populations. This qualitative case study investigated attitudes of migrant parents from Iran towards Persian community language maintenance (CLM) for their school-age children in Australia. Ten parents residing in Melbourne, Victoria were interviewed in two groups and demographic data were collected. The partici…
Dancing My Way Through Life; Embodying Cultural Diversity Across Time and Space
In this paper, I research how my background, in different times and within diverse spaces, has led me to exploring and working with specific Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs. I am forever motivated to engage students learning second languages by providing them with possibilities to find out who they are, to know other ways of being and meet diverse peoples, to maintain languages more effectively and maintain culture(s) mor…
Taking the most delicate care”
We explore the beginnings of professional coaching/mentoring relationships between teachers and university mentors in an Australian school. Often overlooked, initial steps are crucial, holding the seeds of eventual success or failure. Our mentoring program was undertaken in a large, independent, co-educational school in suburban Melbourne, Victoria. In our constructivist study, underpinned by our desire to explore on the lived experiences of othe…
Emotional Landscapes of Living, Learning, and Teaching
This article explores experiences that have influenced my choices for becoming a teacher and then researcher. I used autoethnography as a research method to explore significant moments in my life during the years of both my primary and secondary education. The cumulative power of these life vignettes have been researched to understand the diverse emotional, complex and multilayered experiences of my formative years of childhood and how such emoti…
Learning and Changing
This research paper explores the confluence of significant events in my life that shaped my identity as a teacher and researcher. I employed autoethnography to explore my personal life journey across time, space and context, in order to identify and to analyse the significant moments of epiphany that impacted on my decision to become a teacher. The findings of this study reveal a number of universal qualities of good teachers across three contine…
Learning and Changing
This research paper explores the confluence of significant events in my life that shaped my identity as a teacher and researcher. I employed autoethnography to explore my personal life journey across time, space and context, in order to identify and to analyse the significant moments of epiphany that impacted on my decision to become a teacher. The findings of this study reveal a number of universal qualities of good teachers across three contine…
Attitudes of Iranian Community Parents in Australia towards their Children’s Language Maintenance
Issues of language shift (LS) and language maintenance (LM) are inevitable consequences of globalization and increased mobility of human populations. This qualitative case study investigated attitudes of migrant parents from Iran towards Persian community language maintenance (CLM) for their school-age children in Australia. Ten parents residing in Melbourne, Victoria were interviewed in two groups and demographic data were collected. The partici…
Dancing My Way Through Life; Embodying Cultural Diversity Across Time and Space
In this paper, I research how my background, in different times and within diverse spaces, has led me to exploring and working with specific Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs. I am forever motivated to engage students learning second languages by providing them with possibilities to find out who they are, to know other ways of being and meet diverse peoples, to maintain languages more effectively and maintain culture(s) mor…
Taking the most delicate care”
We explore the beginnings of professional coaching/mentoring relationships between teachers and university mentors in an Australian school. Often overlooked, initial steps are crucial, holding the seeds of eventual success or failure. Our mentoring program was undertaken in a large, independent, co-educational school in suburban Melbourne, Victoria. In our constructivist study, underpinned by our desire to explore on the lived experiences of othe…
Emotional Landscapes of Living, Learning, and Teaching
This article explores experiences that have influenced my choices for becoming a teacher and then researcher. I used autoethnography as a research method to explore significant moments in my life during the years of both my primary and secondary education. The cumulative power of these life vignettes have been researched to understand the diverse emotional, complex and multilayered experiences of my formative years of childhood and how such emoti…
Paradoxes of in-school teacher coaching by outsiders
Lurking with intent
A boundary-crossing journey
This autoethnographic research article explores the author’s journey from a student from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background to a teacher from a CALD background and then a researcher from a CALD background. The autoethnography unfolds in three interconnected stages, analysed through the lens of Boundary Crossing Theory, which highlights the learning and identity formation that occur when individuals move across diverse educa…
Teaching culture in a competitive market
In 2012, the White Paper Australia in the Asian Century urged governments across Australia to improve access to Asian studies in schools. Despite this, schools still struggle to maintain interest and success for secondary students, particularly those without an Asian family background. In response to the low numbers of non-Chinese-background students graduating from secondary schools with proficiency in Chinese language, the Victorian government …
Education, leadership and diaspora
This paper is a scoping review of literature exploring the range and nature of research activity regarding women leading education within marginalized communities in Australia and England. Such practice of women’s educational leadership regularly occurs beyond formal constructs of schooling, and is often immersed in the vulnerabilities of indigenous, diasporic and other marginalized populations, yet remains invisible in scholarship on leading edu…
Sociology (10 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Autoethnography (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Professional development (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)