Dr Marcia Thorne - Research Portfolio

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About

An education background with experience teaching early childhood, secondary school and vocational training with Indigenous adults prepared me as a small IT business owner (20 years) to manage training and career pathways for up to 24 staff to customise work practices, manage accounts and cash flow, accommodate industry and business innovations and to meet government quality accreditation requirements. I then created a specialist, personal development training organisation and delivered hundreds of seminars across Australia between 2002 and 2010. At James Cook University, I upgraded my Diploma of Teaching to a Bachelor of Education (Prof Dev) in 2008, a Master of Education in Sustainability in 2011 and a PhD in 2017.

Teaching

ED2442: Inclusive Education for Special Needs (Secondary) (Level 2; TSV)
ED3093: Teaching for Learning 2 (ECE) (Level 3; SIN & TSV)
ED3193: Teaching for Learning 2 (Primary) (Level 3; TSV)
ED3442: Inclusive Education: Differentiated Learning for Students with Special Needs and Abilities (Level 3; TSV)
ED5912: Social Learning Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Level 5; TSV)
ED5914: Individual Researched Action Project (Level 5; TSV)
ED5980: Teachers as Researchers for Learning and Change (Level 5; TSV)
ED5985: Teachers as Researchers for Learning and Change (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Professional

Centre of Excellence in Autism, Committee Member

Research

Neuro motor maturity, engagement and learning readiness
Wellbeing, resilience and teacher retention in the profession
Environmental stewardship and care pedagogy

Teaching

Action reserach to enhance pedagogy
Inclusive education and differeniation

Experience

2019 to present - Coordinator B Ed PRI, James Cook University (Townsville)
2018 to present - Education Lecturer, James Cook University (Townsville)
2018 - Coordinator B Ed ECE, James Cook University (Townsville)
2013 to 2016 - Supply Teacher, Education Queensland (Cairns)
2002 to 2010 - Personal Development Educator, Own Consultancy Business (Across Australia)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Memberships

1980 - Queenlsand College of Teachers

Publications

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Journal Articles

Thorne M and Whitehouse H (2018) Environmental stewardship education in the Anthropocene (part two): a learning for environmental stewardship conceptual framework. The Social Educator, 36 (1). pp. 17-28
Carter M, Pagliano P, Francis A and Thorne M (2017) Australian university students and mental health: viewpoints from the literature. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 3 (3). pp. 1-25
Nicholls J and Thorne M (2017) Queensland teachers' relationship with the sustainability cross-curriculum priority. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 33 (3). pp. 189-200
Thorne M and Whitehouse H (2017) Environmental stewardship education in the Anthropocene: what have we learned from recent research in North Queensland schools adjacent to the Wet Tropics? The Social Educator, 35 (1). pp. 17-27

Book Chapters

Whitehouse H, Evans N, Jackson C and Thorne M (in press) Children caring for the Australian wet tropics as a response to the anthropocene. In: Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Thorne M and MacGregor C (2017) Pedagogy and learning for sustainability in a virtual world scaffold. In: Authentic Virtual World Education: Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity. Springer, Singapore, pp. 9-23

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation:

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

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