A Mcdowall
Biographic Data
| ID | 65942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Mcdowall |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdowall |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4737-3563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What counts as learning? Competing discourses and the production of learners in Australian schooling policy
It’s not a future issue, it’s a now issue’
Preparation for doctoral research
In Australia, only two-thirds of doctoral students finish their degrees, with underrepresented students completing at even lower rates. Students who successfully complete still experience many challenges throughout their degrees. In this narrative literature review, we use preparation and readiness for the doctorate as a framework to examine how students are prepared for studies at the doctoral level, the challenges they experience, and the suppo…
Smooth seas never made a skilled sailor
This article explores how academic buoyancy, a concept from the educational psychology literature, can be used to understand the experiences of Indigenous secondary students' schooling. Academic buoyancy refers to students' ability to overcome everyday challenges of schooling. In this project, 11 Indigenous secondary students in a remote school shared their experiences of school and how they developed a range of capabilities to overcome the every…
Growing learning dispositions in Indigenous studies
Indigenous studies has come a long way. In this paper, we share some bold steps we have taken to develop a learning process that situates Indigenous people as a people of place, a people of knowledge and a people of science. This teaching disengages students from learning about Indigenous people as remnants of the past. We extend earlier conversations by focusing on the development of learning dispositions which enable students to better navigate…
More learning, less activism
The School Strike for Climate campaign led to public discussion about children’s political participation. Children are generally excluded from formal political systems, however this campaign challenges mainstream attitudes that children are not sufficiently competent to participate in politics. This paper presents an analysis of Australian mainstream media representations of adult responses to the School Strike for Climate events held in Australi…
Data use as the heart of data literacy
A shifting policy landscape in Australian teacher education has led to the introduction of teaching performance assessment tasks in initial teacher education degrees, foregrounding data literacy practices. The aim of this research was to explore pre-service teachers’ uses of data to inform and evaluate their teaching practice as demonstrated in their Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment task. To do so, we drew on a pool of 37 assessment respon…
Layered spaces
University disciplines are grappling with how best to incorporate Indigenous content and frameworks for practice into their teaching to better prepare graduates to work with Indigenous communities. Yet the pedagogical approaches that can best engage students in Indigenous Studies as a field of critical study are still being debated. This article has two aims. The first is to consider how an uncomfortable reflexivity may provide an alternative the…
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain) Adaptacin y validacin de un cuestionario para medir la percepcin de la calidad percibida por los
You Are Not Alone
Aunty Mary Graham, Kombu-merri elder and philosopher, writes, “you are not alone in the world.” We have a responsibility to each other, as well as to the land, and violence is the refusal of this relationship that binds us (Rose). Similarly, Emmanuel Levinas, a French-Lithuanian Jewish teacher and philosopher who lived through the Holocaust, writes that, “my freedom does not have the last word; I am not alone” (Levinas, Totality 101). For both wr…
(Not)Knowing
Our work as educators is entangled in questions of how colonisation privileges particular epistemologies and ontologies, ethical responsibilities and the reproduction of privilege or exclusion through education. Working with preservice teachers as they shape their social and ethical responsibilities allows the opportunity to effect social change on a larger scale as they move into their own classrooms. Students often begin the course seeking some…
(Not)Knowing
Our work as educators is entangled in questions of how colonisation privileges particular epistemologies and ontologies, ethical responsibilities and the reproduction of privilege or exclusion through education. Working with preservice teachers as they shape their social and ethical responsibilities allows the opportunity to effect social change on a larger scale as they move into their own classrooms. Students often begin the course seeking some…
(Not)Knowing
Our work as educators is entangled in questions of how colonisation privileges particular epistemologies and ontologies, ethical responsibilities and the reproduction of privilege or exclusion through education. Working with preservice teachers as they shape their social and ethical responsibilities allows the opportunity to effect social change on a larger scale as they move into their own classrooms. Students often begin the course seeking some…
You Are Not Alone
Aunty Mary Graham, Kombu-merri elder and philosopher, writes, “you are not alone in the world.” We have a responsibility to each other, as well as to the land, and violence is the refusal of this relationship that binds us (Rose). Similarly, Emmanuel Levinas, a French-Lithuanian Jewish teacher and philosopher who lived through the Holocaust, writes that, “my freedom does not have the last word; I am not alone” (Levinas, Totality 101). For both wr…
Data use as the heart of data literacy
A shifting policy landscape in Australian teacher education has led to the introduction of teaching performance assessment tasks in initial teacher education degrees, foregrounding data literacy practices. The aim of this research was to explore pre-service teachers’ uses of data to inform and evaluate their teaching practice as demonstrated in their Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment task. To do so, we drew on a pool of 37 assessment respon…
Layered spaces
University disciplines are grappling with how best to incorporate Indigenous content and frameworks for practice into their teaching to better prepare graduates to work with Indigenous communities. Yet the pedagogical approaches that can best engage students in Indigenous Studies as a field of critical study are still being debated. This article has two aims. The first is to consider how an uncomfortable reflexivity may provide an alternative the…
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain) Adaptacin y validacin de un cuestionario para medir la percepcin de la calidad percibida por los
More learning, less activism
The School Strike for Climate campaign led to public discussion about children’s political participation. Children are generally excluded from formal political systems, however this campaign challenges mainstream attitudes that children are not sufficiently competent to participate in politics. This paper presents an analysis of Australian mainstream media representations of adult responses to the School Strike for Climate events held in Australi…
Growing learning dispositions in Indigenous studies
Indigenous studies has come a long way. In this paper, we share some bold steps we have taken to develop a learning process that situates Indigenous people as a people of place, a people of knowledge and a people of science. This teaching disengages students from learning about Indigenous people as remnants of the past. We extend earlier conversations by focusing on the development of learning dispositions which enable students to better navigate…
Preparation for doctoral research
In Australia, only two-thirds of doctoral students finish their degrees, with underrepresented students completing at even lower rates. Students who successfully complete still experience many challenges throughout their degrees. In this narrative literature review, we use preparation and readiness for the doctorate as a framework to examine how students are prepared for studies at the doctoral level, the challenges they experience, and the suppo…
Smooth seas never made a skilled sailor
This article explores how academic buoyancy, a concept from the educational psychology literature, can be used to understand the experiences of Indigenous secondary students' schooling. Academic buoyancy refers to students' ability to overcome everyday challenges of schooling. In this project, 11 Indigenous secondary students in a remote school shared their experiences of school and how they developed a range of capabilities to overcome the every…
It’s not a future issue, it’s a now issue’
What counts as learning? Competing discourses and the production of learners in Australian schooling policy
Sociology (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)