Staff Profiles
Professor Stephen Dinham
Research Director, Teaching Learning and Leadership
BA (UNE), DipT (Alex Mackie CAE)., MEdAdmin (UNE), PhD (UNE), FACE, FACEL, FAIM
Professor Stephen Dinham is Research Director - Teaching Learning and Leadership at the Australian Council for Educational Research. He is also Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong.
Prior to these appointments he taught in government secondary schools in NSW
before being appointed to the University of Western Sydney where he held a
number of positions including Head of the Department of Curriculum Studies,
Associate Dean (Postgraduate) and Associate Professor.
In 2002 he took up the position of Professor of Teacher Education, Pedagogy and Professional Development in the School of Education, University of New England.
In 2005 he took up the position of Professor of Educational Leadership and Pedagogy at the University of Wollongong.
He has conducted a wide range of research projects in the areas of educational leadership and change, effective pedagogy/quality teaching, postgraduate supervision, professional teaching standards, teachers' professional development, middle managers in schools, and teacher satisfaction, motivation and health. He is a frequent presenter at international, national and state conferences and has conducted consultancies with a variety of educational bodies nationally and internationally.
He is a Past President of the NSW Branch of the Australian College of Educators and chaired the Steering Committee responsible for the NSW Minister for Education and Training and ACE Quality Teaching Awards from inception in 2001 until June 2007.
He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Administration, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
In 2005 he was awarded the Sir Harold Wyndham Medal by the Australian College of Educators in recognition of his contributions to education.
In 2006 he was awarded a national Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching - Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Recent Publications and Papers
Books
Dinham, S. (2007). Leadership for Exceptional Educational Outcomes. Teneriffe, Qld.: Post Pressed.
Refereed Articles
Dinham, S.; Buckland, C.; Callingham, R. & Mays, H. (2008). ‘Factors Responsible For The Superior Performance Of Male Students In Years 3 and 5 Standardised Testing At One Australian Primary School’, Learning and Teaching, (in press).
Brady, L., Aubusson, P. and Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Teachers as researchers: action learning for professional development’, Learning and Teaching, 1(1), (in press).
Scott, C. & Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Born not made: The Nativist myth and Teachers’ Thinking’, Teacher Development’, 12(2), pp. 127-136.
Dinham, S.; Aubusson, P. & Brady, L. (2008). ‘Distributed Leadership as a Factor in and Outcome of Teacher Action Learning’, International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘How Schools Get Moving and Keep Improving: Leadership for Teacher Learning, Student Success and School Renewal’, Australian Journal of Education, 51(3), pp. 263-275.
McCulla, N.; Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (2007). ‘Stepping Out from the Crowd: Some Findings from the NSW Quality Teaching Awards On Seeking Recognition for Professional Accomplishment’, Unicorn Online Refereed Article, ORA 51, pp. 3-32.
Aubusson, P.; Steele, F.; Dinham, S. & Brady, L. (2007). ‘Action learning in teacher learning community formation: informative or transformative?’, Teacher Development, 11(2), pp. 133-148.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Dynamics of Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities’, Unicorn Online Refereed Article, ORA43, pp. 1-16.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Secondary Head of Department and the Achievement of Exceptional Student Outcomes’, Journal of Educational Administration, 45(1), pp. 62-79.
Other Publications
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Feedback on Feedback’, Teacher, May, pp. 20-23.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Counting the Numbers in Educational Change’, The Australian Educational Leader, (accepted)
Chinnappan, M.; Dinham, S.; Herrington, A. & Scott, D. (2008). ‘Year 12 Students and Higher Mathematics: Emerging Issues’, Australian Policy Online.
Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (2008). ‘Responsive, Demanding Leadership’, Management Today, April, pp. 32-35.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘The Lesson of Jonah’, Speld News, 40(1), pp. 2-3.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Education the Key to Overcoming Disadvantage’, Early Childhood News, 28th January.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Education the Key to Overcoming Disadvantage’, ACER eNews.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Every Child Deserves the Best’, The Courier-Mail, 24th January, p. 38.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Family support the key to education’, The Advertiser, 18th January, p. 20.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The (Literacy) Lessons of Jonah’, Eyre District Bulletin, 31.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Lesson of Jonah’, Reading Australia, 30/11/07, available at: http://www.blognow.com.au/ReadingAustralia/page1 <http://www.blognow.com.au/ReadingAustralia/page1> .
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Lesson of Jonah’, ACER eNews, available at: http://www.acer.edu.au/enews/0711_jonah.html <http://www.acer.edu.au/enews/0711_jonah.html> .
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The (Literacy) Lessons of Jonah’, Australian Education Digest, 1(35), available at: http://www.acsso.org.au/AED071128.pdf <http://www.acsso.org.au/AED071023.pdf> .
Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (2007). ‘Getting it wrong (or right) in education’, EQ Australia, summer, pp. 4-5.
Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (2007). ‘Getting it wrong (or right) in education’, EQ Australia, summer, pp. 4-5.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Lesson of Jonah’, Education Review, 17(8), p. 5.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Overcrowding the Curriculum - Still’, Directions in Education, 16(15), pp. 2-3.
Dinham, S. ‘Foreword’, in Fleming, J. & Kleinhenz, E. (2007). Towards a Moving School. Camberwell, Victoria: ACER Press.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Valuing Teacher Expertise’, Ie Independent education, 37(2), p. 29.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Waves of Leadership’, The Australian Educational Leader, 29(3), pp. 20-21, 27.
Dinham, S. (2007). Authoritative
Leadership, Action Learning and Student Accomplishment, Conference Proceedings,
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2007 Research Conference, pp. 33-39.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Teacher Quality and Student Achievement’, Directions in Education, 16(6), p. 1.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Importance of the New South Wales Institute of Teachers’, Forums, (1), pp. 1-4.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Educational Research and the ‘Three R’s’’, Education Review, 17(2), pp. 16-18.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Principal Leadership and Student Achievement’, P & C Journal, 58(1), p. 10.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Time to Start Teaching From the Same Page’, Illawarra Mercury, 27 February, p. 25.
Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (2007). ‘Parenting, Teaching and Leadership Styles’, The Australian Educational Leader, 29(1), pp. 30-32; 45.
Dinham, S. (2007). 'Good Teachers Make a Difference', Illawarra Mercury, 13 February, p. 24.
Conference Presentations
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Driving Improvement in the Quality of Australian Education: Points of Leverage’, Australian College of Educators, Victorian Branch Oration, University of Melbourne, 15th August.
Chinnapan, M.; Dinham, S.; Herrington, T. & Scott, D. (2007). ‘Year 12 students and Higher Mathematics: Emerging issues’, paper presented to Australian Association for Research in Education, Annual Conference, Fremantle, 25th-29th November.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Innovative and Effective Professional Learning’, keynote address, AGQTP National Forum, Sydney, 19th November.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Authoritative Leadership, Action Learning and Student Accomplishment’, invited paper presented at Research Conference, Australian Council for Educational Research, Melbourne, 12th- 14th August.
Chinnappan, M.; Dinham, S.; Herington, T. & Scott, D. (2007). ‘Year 12 Students’ Participation in Higher Mathematics’, paper presented to the MERGA National Conference, 5th July.
Plummer, F.; Ewing, R.; Smith, D.; Hoban, G.; Dinham, S.; Aubusson, P. & Brady, L. (2007). ‘Action Learning: Potential and Pitfalls for Innovation and Research’, paper presented to the AARE Focus 2007 National Conference, Canberra, 13th-14th June.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Leadership for Outstanding Educational Outcomes: Internal and External Collaboration’, keynote address, Area Schools Executive Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7th June.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘Leadership, Collaboration and Action for Improved Teaching and Learning’, keynote address, RAFA Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1st June.
Dinham, S. (2007). ‘The Dynamics of Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities’, keynote address, Sixth International Conference on Educational Leadership, Australian Centre for Educational Leadership, University of Wollongong, 15th-16th February.
Opinion
Study of Mathematics Declines, ACER eNews, March 2008.
Dinham, S. (2008). ‘Education the Key to Overcoming Disadvantage’, ACER eNews, January 2008.
Dinham, S. (2008). 'Family support the key to education'. The Advertiser, 18th January 2008.
Dinham, S. (2007). The
Lesson of Jonah, 26th October 2007.
Dinham, S. (2007). Specialist
Primary Teachers: Experts in the Field,
18th October 2007.