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Ms Kerry-Anne Hoad

Position:

Director 

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Division:

ACER Institute 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Publications:

http://works.bepress.com/kerry_anne_hoad/ 

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Qualifications:

BA Deakin, MEd Melb, DipTeach IECD, GradDip SpEd SCVB, CertIV Workplace Train&Assess Box Hill

 

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Ms Kerry-Anne Hoad

Ms Kerry-Anne Hoad is Director of ACER Institute at the Australian Council for Educational Research, and Manager of the ACER International Institute.

Ms Hoad's role at ACER includes the management of ACER Institute, ACER's International Institute and ACER's annual Research Conference.

Prior to joining ACER in 2001, she managed a Commonwealth funded Resource, Advisory and Training Agency that supported the inclusion of children with disabilities into mainstream educational programs. She designed and delivered training programs for the national implementation of a $30 million Special Needs Subsidy Scheme. 

Ms Hoad has worked in the UK at the University of North London as a course writer, lecturer and tutor.  She wrote two curriculum books for this University - "Working with Children with Special Educational Needs" and "Social and Philosophical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education". Kerry-Anne has worked in education in Australia for over 20 years at all levels - early childhood, primary, secondary, special education and tertiary education - and across all school sectors -government, catholic and independent.

In the tertiary sector, she has written course materials for the University of Ballarat and provided sessional lectures for the University of Ballarat, University of Melbourne, Swinburne University, Holmesglen TAFE and Chisholm TAFE. Her areas of research and practical interest are disability studies, deafness studies, early childhood education and adult learning.

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