Fellow, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Leaders
Member, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

BA (Hons) Monash, MA Melb, MEd Melb, PhD UTS, TPTC Ed Dept Vic., Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training Melb.

Adult Education as Professional Practice (25 pts), a graduate Education subject for Masters and DEd students such as managers, trainers, HRD staff, nurses, teachers, and those in community-based and consultancy-based work.

Ethical Leadership (25 pts), core subject in the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Learning and Leadership, for doctoral students anywhere in the University.
See: http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/programs/GCALL/

In addition, I am supervising or co-supervising about 18 theses at MEd, and doctoral (PhD; DEd) levels, having successfully supervised about 50 theses, in the areas of human resource development, workplace learning, professional development and in education philosophy and policy.

My 'active' 2008-2009 supervision/co-supervision topics are:

Nourishing the Seed: A case study of an inner city Uniting Church in Australia arts/spirituality mission (PhD)
Pedagogical Practices and Adult Learners’ Professional Identities: A Malaysian university case study (PhD)
Learning Through Simulation (DEd)
Working To Learn: Co-operative education in an information systems business degree (DEd)
Problem-Solving and Practical Judgement: A study of knowledge creation through informal workplace learning (DEd)
Interrogating Bodies of Knowledge in the Health Professions (DEd)
Philosophical Progress in Philosophy for Children (PhD)
Performance Evaluation of Pakistani Secondary School Teachers in the Peshawar District (DEd)
Phenomenology For Children (PhD)
Workplace Learning in the Franchise Industry (DEd)
Multi-Sited Educational Ethnography (MEd)
Music Education and ICT: A Case Study in Taiwan (DEd)
Nurses Working With Older People in Acute Care: Implications for Education (DEd)
Of Secrets, Sorrows and Shame: Undergraduate nurses’ experiences of death and dying (MEd)

I have taught off-shore: in 2001, in Bangkok in our DEd program for the Rajabhat Institutes; in 2004, in our MEd Management program at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, in 2004 in our MTraining&Development at Singapore Institute of Management, and in 2006, in our MEd Management at the Academy of Principals, Singapore.

Adult education, as it is apparent in professional development, policy analysis, and in workplace and lifelong learning.

Epistemological, ontological and ethical perspectives on practice.

Between 1999-2009 inc., I have given research conference papers in Melbourne (RMIT University and here), Oxford (New College – three times), Johannesburg (UWitwatersrand), Leeds (Trinity and All Souls College), Abu Dhabi (Higher Colleges of Technology), Geneva (the ILO), Vancouver (UBritish Columbia), Calgary (UCalgary), Madison (UWisconsin-Madison), Honolulu (UHawaii), Sydney (twice at USydney, and twice at UTechnology Sydney), Wollongong (UWollongong), Singapore (NUS), Bangkok (UChulalongkorn) Hong Kong (HK Inst of Education), in Finland (UTampere), in Malta (UMalta), in Scotland (UStirling), in China (Beijing Normal U), in Malaysia (National U of Malaysia - UKM), twice in New Zealand (Museum, Wellington; UAuckland), and in Japan (U Kyoto).

Latest Book:

O’TOOLE, J. and BECKETT, D. (2009) Educational Research: Creative Thinking and Doing. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Latest Refereed Chapters:

RADOMSKI, N., and BECKETT, D. (2010 in press) Crossing Workplace Boundaries: Interprofessional Thinking in Action, in S, Kitto, J. Chesters, J.Thistlethwaite and S Reeves (eds.) A Sociology of Interprofessional Health Care Practice: Critical Reflections and Concrete Solutions. Nova Science Publishers: New York

BECKETT, D (2010 in press) Adult Learning: Philosophical Issues, in The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, edited by Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson and Eva Baker, Elsevier, UK.

BECKETT, D. (2009 in press) Learning To Be - At Work, in L. Scanlon (ed) 'Becoming' a Professional: An interdisciplinary analysis of professional learning. Springer, The Netherlands.

BECKETT, D. (2009) Holistic Competence: Putting Judgements First, in K. Illeris (ed.) International Perspectives on Competence Development. Routledge: UK

BECKETT, D. and MULCAHY, D. (2006) Constructing Professionals’ Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment, in P. Hager and S. Holland (eds.) Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability. Lifelong Learning Book Series. Springer: New York

MORRIS, G. and BECKETT, D. (2004) Performing Identities: The New Focus on Embodied Adults’ Learning, in P. Kell, S. Shore and M. Singh (eds) Adult Education @ 21st Century. Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education. Peter Lang: New York

Latest Refereed Journal Articles:

BECKETT, D. (2009 in press) Ludwig: My pedagogical part, in Educational Philosophy and Theory. 41: 7 pp781-783

GOUGH, J. and BECKETT, D. (2006) Young doctors as teachers: understanding their motivations and needs. The Clinical Teacher, 3: 1 pp49-52

BECKETT, D. and GOUGH, J. (2004) Perceptions of Professional Identity: A story from paediatrics. Studies in Continuing Education. 26: 2 pp195-208

MORRIS, G. and BECKETT, D. (2004) Learning For/At Work: Somali Women ‘Doing It For Themselves’. Journal of Workplace Learning. 16: 1 pp75-82

BECKETT, D.G. (2004) Embodied Competence and Generic Skill: the Emergence of Inferential Understanding. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 36: 5 pp497-509

Between 1992 and the end of 2009, I have published about 280 items, mainly of two kinds:

(a) non-refereed education policy contributions to 'Directions in Education'(for ACEL: see http://www.acel.org.au/)

(b) refereed journal articles and chapters (see 'Latest' lists under Publications), 30 conference papers, four commissioned reports, and first book (2002) 'Life, Work and Learning: Practice in Postmodernity' (Beckett and Hager), Routledge International Studies in Philosophy of Education, London.