ProfessorDamian Blake

Head of School Education

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

  • Head of School Education
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • +61 3 522 71440 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Unit Chair and Teaching:
ECJ721 - Introduction to teaching in the Middle Years
EEJ722 - Applied Learning in the Middle Years
EEE723 - Partnership Development for Applied and Vocational Learning Programs
EEJ735 - Teachers and Youth Literacy and Numeracy Engagement
EXE702 - Becoming a Teacher in the 21st Century
ECV704 - Applied Learning
Teaching:
EXR780 - Research Perspectives
EXR790 - Research Proposal Development
EXR796/7 - Masters Research Paper
EXR798/9 - Masters Minor Thesis
PhD - Higher Degree by Research Program

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Transformative interventions in Public Health Leadership Education in the Pacific
    Sonia Louise Brockington - School of Education
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing IT professionals in New Zealand using project-based learning
    Nicholas Wempe - School of Education - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Role of Self-direction in Australian Sonographers' Professional Development
    Maureen Phillips - School of Education - 2011
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Reengaging 'At-risk' Youth in Secondary Education
    Robin Mautner - School of Education - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Enhacing Student Learning in a First Year Business Program
    Dipu Sebastian - School of Education - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Curriculum for Entrepreneurial Creativity and Resourcefulness in New Zealand
    Ray Meldrum - School of Education - 2008
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Learning to be Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) Educators
    Christine Schulz - School of Education - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring Principals' Purposes, Experiences and Perceptions of Teacher Appraisal in Victorian Independent Schools
    Helen Dorothy Hughes - School of Education - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Risk in the VET Practitioner's Teaching Experience and Professional Identity
    Elli McGavin - School of Education - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Restructuring in Higher Education: A Case Study in an Australian University
    Mohd Fauzi Bin Kamarudin - School of Education - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Spirituality and the Transition to Manhood
    Andrew Smith - School of Education - 2006
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring stakeholders perspectives of cooperative education in sport tertiary education
    Jennine Fleming - School of Education - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The value of guided operating theatre experience for undergradaute nurses
    Paula Foran - School of Education - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Australian Principals' Experiences in Implementing Instructional leadership in Regional Victoria
    Janet Gregory - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Innovative Applied Learning for School Completion: An Activity Theory Perspective
    Stuart Roger Hawken - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Crossing boundaries and building enduring partnerships in initial teacher education
    Kellie Tobin - School of Education - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    When did our schools become the problem?
    Stephen Kendall-Jones - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Implementing the International Baccalaureate in the United Arab Emirates: A Bourdieusian perspective
    Natalie Harris - School of Education - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Interrogating the Paradox: Distributed Leadership and 'Sheikhocracy' in Jordanian Schools Leadership
    Reem Hashem - School of Education - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Co-constructing digital teaching practice in higher education: An activity theory perspective
    Margaret Colasante - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Iranian Immigrants Discourse Struggles: a Case on Subjectivity and Second Language (L2) Selves
    Omid Talebi Rezaabadi - School of Education - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Teaching Early Reading: Teacher Perspectives of Practice
    Tina Daniel-Zitzlaff - School of Education - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Personalising Learning in Practical Physical Education in Middle-Years Schooling
    John Andrew Hill - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Young People, Twenty-First Century Skills and Uncertain Futures: A Genealogy of Australias Neo-Liberal Education Apparatus
    James Goring - School of Education - 2023