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    • Associate Professor Jan Gray

      Associate Professor Jan Gray

Associate Professor Jan Gray

Honorary Associate Professor

Staff Member Details
Email: jan.gray@ecu.edu.au

Jan is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education.

Background

Jan has teaching, leadership and research experience in the education sector at State, National and International levels. She is particularly interested in advancing teaching, research and scholarship of the highest calibre for postgraduate students in an intellectually challenging, supported, socially just and ethical manner. As an experienced Higher Degrees supervisor, she has supervised more than 20 successful completions for doctoral students.

Leadership roles taken by Jan span School, Faculty and University level service, and included Program Director, Research and Higher Degrees and Associate Dean Research and Higher Degrees in the former Faculty of Education.

Professional associations

  • Executive Editor of the international Q1 journal Teaching and Teacher Education 2017-2022
  • Review Panel of Teaching and Teacher Education., an international journal of teaching research 2007-2022
  • Review Panel of Australian Journal of teacher Education 2007-2022

Research areas and interests

  • School leadership
  • School improvement
  • Educational policy

Qualifications

  • CC5 Three-Year Trained Teachers Certificate, Other WA higher ed institution.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2000.
  • Master of Education, Edith Cowan University, 1996.
  • Bachelor of Education, Edith Cowan University, 1993.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

  • Mpate, H., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2023). Pre-service teachers’ preparedness to teach during teaching practice in Tanzania. African journal of teacher education, 12(1), 95-120. https://doi.org/10.21083/ajote.v12i1.7264.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Mpate, H., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2021). Triad role in shaping Tanzanian pre-service teachers' experience of teaching practice. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46(8), 31-50.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Bolaji, S., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2019). Management of universal basic education policy in the villages in Nigeria. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 29(3), 76-91. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/8394.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Cross, G., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2018). Beyond the assumptions: Religious schools and their influence on students' social and civic development. International Journal of Christianity & Education, 22(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056997117742172.
  • Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Kessaris, T., Cooper, M., Gray, J. (2018). A ‘better’ education: An examination of the utility of boarding school for Indigenous secondary students in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Education, 62(2), 192–216. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944118776762.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Bolaji, S., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2017). The perils of bureaucratic complexity: Education for all in Nigeria. International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 9(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5897/IJEAPS2016.0480.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Bolaji, SD., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2016). Universal basic education policy implementation in Nigeria. KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 13(2), 137-158.
  • Leggett, B., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2016). Issues and challenges of school governance. Leading and Managing, 22(1), 36-56.
  • Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Gray, J. (2016). Creating shared norms in schools – a theoretical approach. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 45(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2016.9.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Bolaji, SD., Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G. (2015). Why do policies fail in Nigeria?. Journal of Education and Social Policy, 2(5), 57-66.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Lyle, J., Cunningham, C., Gray, J. (2014). The New Australian Curriculum, Teachers and Change Fatigue. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(11), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v39n11.4.
  • Leggett, B., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2014). Opportunities Taken, Lost or Avoided: The Use of Difference of Opinion in School Decision Making. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(4), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v39n4.7.
  • Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J., Leggett, B. (2014). Adaptive leadership in school boards in Australia: An emergent model. School Leadership and Management, 34(5), 538-552. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2014.938038.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G., Leggett, B. (2013). Independent Public Schools: Boards in transition. Leading and Managing, 19(1), 72-88.

Reports

  • Gray, J., Newhouse, P., Lock, G., Konza, D., Campbell-Evans, G., Budgen, F., Shean, M. (2013). Evaluation of the Fogarty EDvance Initiative: Stage 1. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.

2012

Book Chapters

  • Gray, J., Partington, G. (2012). Attendance and non-attendance at school. Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education (261-303). UWA Publishing.
  • Beresford, Q., Gray, J. (2012). Models of policy development in Aboriginal Education. Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education (120-148). UWA Publishing.

Conference Publications

  • Witten, H., Waugh, R., Gray, J. (2012). School administrators' beliefs that actual school improvements were due to formal school registration: Guttman scales and their inter-correlations. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference Proceedings (21). Australian Association for Research in Education.
  • Witten, H., Waugh, R., Gray, J. (2012). School Administrators' Beliefs That School Improvements Were Due to Formal School Registration: A Rasch Measurement. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference Proceedings (21). Australian Association for Research in Education.

Reports

  • Ure, C., Gray, J. (2012). Research and Mapping for MCEECDYA Project: Student Academic Engagement. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.

2010

Journal Articles

  • Cahill, R., Gray, J. (2010). Funding and Secondary School Choice in Australia: A Historical Consideration. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 35(1), 121-138.
  • Pearce, M., Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G. (2010). Challenges of the secondary school context for inclusive teaching.. Issues in Educational Research, 20(3), 294-313.
  • Pearce, M., Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2010). Capacity to be inclusive: Secondary teachers' perspective.. Special Education Perspectives, 19(1), 15-27.

2009

Journal Articles

  • Pearce, M., Gray, J., Campbell-Evans, G. (2009). The Inclusive Secondary Teacher: The Leaders' Perspective. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 34(6), 101-119.
  • Gray, J. (2009). Staying at school: Reflective narratives of resistance and transition. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 10(5), 645-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623940903290711.
  • Gray, J., Hackling, M. (2009). Wellbeing and Retention: A Senior Secondary Student Perspective. Australian Educational Researcher, 36(2), 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03216902.

Reports

  • Newhouse, P., Gray, J., Clarkson, B., Pagram, J., Kershaw, L., Brook, C., Cooper, M. (2009). Learning with ICT Project - Evaluation of Professional Learning Strategy: Final Report. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.
  • Newhouse, P., Gray, J., Clarkson, B., Pagram, J., Kershaw, L., Cooper, M. (2009). Learning with ICT Project - Evaluation of Professional Learning Strategy: Report 10 - Phases Three and Four Comparison 3 Data. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.

2008

Journal Articles

  • Gray, J., Beresford, Q. (2008). A 'formidable challenge': Australia's quest for equity in Indigenous education. Australian Journal of Education, 52(2), 197-223.

Reports

  • Newhouse, P., Gray, J., Clarkson, B., Pagram, J., Kershaw, L., Brook, C., Cooper, M. (2008). Learning with ICT Project - Evaluation of Professional Learning Strategy: Report 9 - Phases Three and Four Comparison 2 Data. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.

2006

Journal Articles

  • Beresford, Q., Gray, J. (2006). Models of policy development in Aboriginal education: Issues and discourse. Australian Journal of Education, 50(3), 265-280.

Conference Publications

  • Vonganusith, V., Gray, J. (2006). Computers can be your EFL friends if you ask them nicely. Teaching, Learning, Researching: Three Pillars of TESOL (On Line). Thailand TESOL.

2005

Journal Articles

  • Ross, S., Gray, J. (2005). Transitions and Re-engagement through Second Chance Education. Australian Educational Researcher, 32(3), 103-140.

2004

Book Chapters

  • Gray, J. (2004). The action learning model. Working mathematically in the middle years (9-21). MAWA.

2003

Book Chapters

  • Partington, G., Gray, J. (2003). Classroom management and aboriginal students. Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education (164-184). UWA Press.
  • Gray, J., Partington, G. (2003). Attendance and Non attendance at school. Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education (133-163). UWA Press.

2002

Journal Articles

  • Gray, J., Beresford, Q. (2002). Aboriginal Non-Attendance at School:Revisiting the Debate.. The Australian Educational Researcher, 29(1), 27-40.
  • Campbell-Evans, G., Gray, J. (2002). Beginning teachers as teacher-researchers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 27, 2-29.

Research Projects

  • Completing Year 11: Providing quality retention for WA students - Phase 9, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2017 ‑ 2019, $32,364.
  • Providing quality retention for WA students Phase 8, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2016 ‑ 2017, $31,492.
  • Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for WA Students Phase 7: 2015, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2015 ‑ 2016, $29,108.
  • Challenges of Participation: Governance in Anglican System Schools, Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2014 (Round 1), 2014 ‑ 2015, $37,500.
  • Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for Western Australian Students Phase 6, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2013 ‑ 2015, $30,333.
  • Evaluation of Fogarty EDvance Initiative, Fogarty Foundation, Fogarty EDvance Initiative - tender, 2012 ‑ 2014, $124,022.
  • Increasing School Engagement, Edith Cowan University, Grant, 2009 ‑ 2013, $11,964.
  • Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for WA Students. Phase 5, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2012 ‑ 2013, $15,930.
  • Research and Mapping for the MCEECDYA Project: Student Academic Engagement, Department of Education WA, Grant, 2011 ‑ 2012, $172,668.
  • Completing Year 11: Providing Positive Retention for WA Students (Clarkson Community High School), Clarkson Community High School, Grant, 2010 ‑ 2012, $20,000.
  • Completing Year 11: Providing Quality Retention for WA Students Phase 3, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2009 ‑ 2011, $25,723.
  • Providing Quality Retention: Enhancing Student Confidence and Satisfaction Phase 2, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2008 ‑ 2010, $49,648.
  • Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations, Yayasan Sampoerna - Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute, Grant, 2007 ‑ 2009, $159,913.
  • 100 Schools Project, Department of Education and Training WA, Grant, 2003 ‑ 2009, $502,727.
  • Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Student Retention and Success in High School, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2004 ‑ 2009, $645,316.
  • Enhancing Year 12 Student Achievement. Phase 1 (Instrument Development), Mount Lawley Senior High School, Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $4,545.
  • Phase 1 of the Year 11 Quality Retention Project, Sevenoaks Senior College, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2007, $18,182.
  • Balga Senior High School ICT Evaluation 2006, Balga Senior High School, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2007.
  • Aboriginal Students and Numeracy Phase II, Association of Independent Schools of WA, AISWA - Grant, 2004 ‑ 2005, $32,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Social Science (Human Services), The construction of alienated students and students at educational risk: A study of the justice and education discourse.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Intent to action: Overcoming barriers to universal basic education policy implementation in Nigeria
  • Master of Education, Teaching Aboriginal curriculum content in Australian high schools
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Portraits of middle eastern gulf female students in Australian universities.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Religious schools in Australia's education system: An investigation of the social and civic implications.
  • Master of Education, Institutional experiences of female child migrants in Western Australia between 1948 - 1955
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Investigating the relationships between education and culture for female students in tertiary settings in the uae.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creative reuse: How rescued materials transformed my a/r/tographic practice
  • Doctor of Education, The professional development of tourist police in Thailand: An investigation into English communication competency.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, An investigation into the challenges teachers face when working in a low socio-economic primary school.
  • Master of Education, The reality of reform: Teachers reflecting on curriculum reform in Western Australia

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Towards the development of inclusive standards in secondary education.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Stakeholders' Roles in Shaping Pre-service Teachers' Experience of Teaching Practice in a College of Teacher Education in Tanzania
  • Doctor of Philosophy, School administrators' beliefs regarding the relationship between school improvements and formal school registration.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Implementation of initiatives to reform the quality of education in rural ghanaian junior high schools
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Gifted students: Perceptions and practices of regular class teachers
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Overcoming the challenges: How native English-speaking teachers develop the English speaking skills of university students in South korea

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Examining the perceived benefit of education for Aboriginal secondary students in Western Australia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The influence of parents, English teachers, friends and peer group on West Australian adolescents' recreational book reading: Findings from the West Australian study in adolescent book reading (wasabr)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Maximising the contributions of phd graduates to national development: The case of the seychelles
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The effect of money as a context on students' mental computation performance for years 3,5,7 and 9.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Knowing and teaching: The impact of teachers' knowledge on students' early literacy achievement.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, "More than three 'rs' in the classroom": A case study of Aboriginal tertiary business education.
  • Master of Education, International student perceptions of quality of learning experiences in vocational education and training
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