Dr Genevieve Noone
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Bachelor of Education (Primary), Master of Education (Honours), PhD
Contact
| Email: | gnoone@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Milton Building (E6) Room 37 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2629 (or +61 2 6773 2629 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 5078 |
Genevieve is a member of the Early Childhood group within the School of Education.
As an educator my interest has always been in the relationships between pupils and their teachers. As my life journey has continued my interest has broadened to include all our relationships, both inside and outside the classroom, with and in the places we live.
My other passion is the Arts, and their potential, not only as an expression of our experiences and understandings, but also as a tool for researching education, relationships and place.
I originally trained and worked as a primary teacher, and then spent many years working in various jobs both inside and outside of the education field, some in community organisations, some in private, commercial organizations. I returned to study and teaching over a decade ago, completing my Master of Education and PhD, and taking up a teaching position with the Early Childhood Education program here at U.N.E.
I choose to live in a small, rural village, and being part of community life is important to me. I try to spend as much time as I can in my garden, where I attend to growing both natives, and vegetables and herbs, while my partner enjoys digging the earth and planting bulbs! I have a blog at UNE at http://blog.une.edu.au/Genevieve/, and I welcome your comments.
Affiliations
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA)
International Rural Network (IRN)
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Australian Association for Environmental Education
Early Childhood Environmental Education Network (ECEEN)
Areas of Teaching
I currently co-ordinate the following units in the Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) and the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood):
EDEC310 Professionals in Early Childhood
EDEC442 Children, Childhood and Contemporary Influences
Research interests
I am passionate about place and space, and the relationships we have with places and spaces. And I am just as passionate about engaging the Arts in qualitative research. I am particularly interested in the teacher-learner relationship, at all levels of the education system. I am keen to explore the influence that the environments in which we place educators and pupils have on these relationships and the way we learn. My Master of Education thesis is a study of the relationships between voluntary community members and the children they worked with in a primary school setting, and my Doctoral thesis looks at the mutual relationships with place that teachers develop when placed in rural schools.
Current Research
I am currently involved with a group of researchers in the School of Education working on a project titled Bush Tracks. We see ourselves as a collective in conversation with rural teachers. The first phase of our project concerned early career teachers in rural schools, and the second phase, for which data collection was recently completed is a study of teaching principals in one and two teacher rural schools.
I am also involved in two other smaller studies: one looking at how teacher educators develop their online teaching skills and knowledges; and the other a study of the rural teaching of the Josephite Sisters.
Other areas of interest
I am a member of the School of Education’s Aboriginal Education Group because I am concerned with social justice and, in particular, with equity for Aboriginal Australians.
Publications
Journal Articles
Noone, G. & Parkes, M. (2003). Learning and desire. International Journal of Learning, 10, 2033-2044.
Bush Tracks Research Collective. (2006). Bush Tracks: Exploring rural teaching transitions. Education in Rural Australia, 16(2), 3-11.
Lacey, R., & Noone, G. (1985). Religious attitudes and ideas of first year undergraduates at Aquinas Campus. Journal of the Institute of Catholic Education, 6, 67-79.
Book Reviews
Noone, G. (2009). Book review: The authentic dissertation: alternative ways of knowing, research and representation. Higher Education Research & Development, 28(4), 259-261.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Noone, G. (2006). Teaching and place - a mutual relation. In Sharing Wisdom for our Future, Environmental Education in Action: Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association of Environmental Education (pp. 214-226). Sydney: Australian Association for Environmental Education.
Theses
Noone, G. (2007). Place and becoming: a study of graduate teachers in rural schools. PhD, School of Education, University of New England. (Available at http://e-publications.une.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/une:1914?exp)
Noone, G. (2002). Unfolding Possibilities: a study of pedagogical relationships. Master of Education (Hons), School of Education, University of New England.
Selected Presentations
Noone, G. (2008). Imagining a teacher-place assemblage: re-image-ing rural teaching. Presentation at Brown Bag Seminar Series, School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University (Bathurst), 27 October 2008.
Noone, G. (2004). Becoming teacher in a rural Australian school: how to explore the experience of place? Presentation at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Melbourne, 28 November - 2 December 2004.
Noone, G. (2004). Graduate teachers in rural schools: an exploration of the relation between place and becoming teacher. Poster presentation at New South Wales Institute for Educational Research Postgraduate Research Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 29 April 2004.
Noone, G. (2004). An exploration of relationships in place. Presentation at Visiting Scholars Program, Australian National University, Canberra, 8 September 2004.
Noone, G. (2002). Pedagogical Relationships: Unfolding Possibilities. Presentation at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Brisbane, 2-5 December 2002. (Available at www.aare.edu.au/02pap/noo02457.htm).