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Maryanne Macdonald

Lecturer, Indigenous Education, Edith Cowan University

Dr Mary-anne Macdonald is a lecturer and researcher at Kurongkurl Katitjin Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research, Edith Cowan University. Her work as a non-Indigenous academic focuses on the intersection of Indigenous and Western knowledges, and bettering the engagement of non-Indigenous peoples with Indigenous ways of being and knowing.
Her previous career as a secondary school teacher of maths and science enables her to critically engage with racial and cultural dynamics as they affect real world relationships.

Experience

  • 2017–2022
    Lecturer, Edith Cowan University

Education

  • 2018 
    Edith Cowan University, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Booth, S., Somerville, R. (2022). Pedagogy Matters: Positive Steps towards Indigenous Cultural Competency in a Pre-Service Teacher Cohort. Australian Journal of Education. (in press)., Australian Journal of Education
  • 2022
    Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Garvey, D., Hayward, K. (2022). Broadening academia: An epistemic shift towards relationality. Higher Education Research and Development. Vol. 42(3). (in press)., Higher Education Research and Development
  • 2021
    Macdonald, M., Gringart, E. (2021), Validation of the Multi-Dimensional Student Perceptions of School Questionnaire (MSPSQ): Early findings and next steps. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, (in press)., Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
  • 2018
    Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Ngarritjan-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, Vol. 62(2) 192–216, Sage Publications, DOI: doi.org/10.1177/0004944118776762 , Australian Journal of Education
  • 2016
    Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Gray, J., (2015). (2016). Creating Shared Norms in Schools - A Theoretical approach. , Australian Journal of Indigenous Education