TLU publications

Journal articles

Davies, W. M. (2004), "Not Quite Right: On Writing and Inferencing, A Vector Analysis of Graduate Student Work", (Draft. To be submitted to Studies in Higher Education). (PDF, 151Kb)

Davies, W. M. (2004, under review) 'In Defence of Generalisation: Moore on the Critical Thinking Debate', submitted to Higher Education Research and Development Journal (Reply to Tim Moore's paper, 'The Critical Thinking Debate: How General are General Thinking Skills?' HERD, Volume 23, Issue No. 1: pp. 3-18.)(PDF, 272Kb)

Davies, W. M.  (2004), ‘Ways of Knowing and Ways of Reasoning', Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA), Transforming Knowledge into Wisdom: Holistic Approaches to Teaching and Learning, Miri, Sarawak. 4-7th July. http://herdsa2004.curtin.edu.my/Contributions/NRPapers/P003-jt.pdf

Davies, W. M.  (2004), Commissioned article. "Sir William Mitchell", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Martin: United States of America. (URL: http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/).

Davies, W. M. (2004), 'Amodal or Perceptual Symbol Systems: A False Dichotomy?' Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27(1). Peer Review Commentary on L. Barsalou's Perceptual Symbol Systems BBS Target Article (1999) Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 22 (4). http://www.bbsonline.org/

Davies, W. M. (2002) ‘Are we Different?: English and Cross-Cultural Thought Patterns', English Australia Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1: pp. 53 - 65.

Davies, W. M. (2000), 'Commercialism, Fundamental Research and the "New" Universities', Australian Quarterly, Jan/Feb  2000.

Davies, W. M. (1999), "Sir William Mitchell and the 'New Mysterianism'", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 77, No 3, September: pp. 253-257.

Davies, W. M. (1999), 'On Eskimos and Hamburgers: The Future of Scholarship in Australia', Australian Quarterly, Vol 71, No 6, Nov/Dec: pp. 24-27

Morris, G. & Beckett, D. (2003) ‘Real’ Knowing: Rethinking language, identity and work, International Journal of Learning

Johnston, C., Waters, L. (Forthcoming 2004) Web-delivered, Problem-based Learning in Organisational Behaviour: A New Form of C.A.O.S, Higher Education Research and Development

Johnston, C. & N. Olekalns. 2002 Enriching the learning Environment: A CALM Approach. Studies In Higher Education, Vol 27, No.2. pp.103-120

Johnston C. 2001 Student perceptions of learning in first year in an Economics and Commerce Faculty Higher Education Research and Development, Vol 20. No.2 July pp.169-184

Johnston, C., Williams, R., McDonald, I. 2001, The Scholarship of Teaching Economics, Journal of Economic Education, Vol 32, No 3 Summer pp. 195-202

Johnston C. & Caldwell, B. 2001 Leadership and organisational learning in the quest for world class schools. The International Journal of Educational Management. Vol 15 No.2 pp. 94-102

Johnston, C., James, R., Lye, J. & McDonald, I. 2000 An evaluation of the introduction of collaborative problem-solving for learning economics, Journal of Economic Education Vol 31 No 1 pp. 13-29.

Jones, A. (Forthcoming 2004) Teaching critical thinking: an investigation of a task in introductory macroeconomics Higher Education Research and Development

Jones, A. (Forthcoming 2004) Culture and context: critical thinking and student learning in introductory macroeconomics, Studies in Higher Education

Morris, G. & Beckett, D. (Forthcoming 2004) Learning for/at work: Somali women ‘doing it for themselves’, Journal of Workplace Learning

Books

Davies, W. M. (forthcoming 2005/6) Study to Succeed: Commerce Research and Learning Skills. MacMillan Palgrave: UK.

Davies, W. M. and Sievers, K. H., (2004 in press) The Nature of Knowing: A Resource Manual for Understanding Knowledge. Ibid Press: Melbourne, Australia. (URL: http://www.ibid.com.au)

Davies, W. M., (2003) The Thought of Sir William Mitchell 1861-1962: A Mind's Own Place. Funded by The Australian Research Council, ArtsSA and the H. J. Allen Prize in Philosophy. Studies in the History of Philosophy, Volume 73. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, USA.

Davies, W. M., (1996) Experience and Content. Avebury Series in Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House, Aldershot, Hants  United Kingdom (URL: http://www.ashgate.com/)

Chapters in books

Johnston, C. (2003) The use of online assessment in stimulating a deeper approach to learning in Learning and Teaching with technology Principles and Practice, ed. Som Naidu. Kogan Page, London, pp.221-231.

Johnston, C., (1997) Fostering Deeper Learning Teaching and Learning in Vocational Education and Training (ed) R Blunden, Social Science Press. Katoomba

Johnston , C., (1995.) Peer tutoring in Economics at the University of Melbourne in S. Goodlad, Students as Tutors and Mentors, Kogan Page London, pp 32-51.

Davies, W. M. (2001), 'Sir William Mitchell'. Commissioned article, in SA's Greats: The Men and Women of the North Terrace Plaques. The Historical Society of South Australia Publication: Adelaide.

Working Papers

Jones, A., Gribble, J., Meyer, L (2003) Quantifying and Assessing Learning Objectives Centre for Actuarial Studies Working Paper Series Paper no 112

Refereed conference proceedings

Davies, W. M. (2004) 'Cognitive Contours: Recent Work on Cross-Cultural Psychology and its Relevance for Education', Hawaii International Conference  on Education, Honolulu, 4-7th/1/2004: URL: http://www.hiceducation.org/proceedings_edu.htm

Davies, W. M. (2003) ‘A Cautionary Note about the Teaching of Critical Reasoning’, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA), Learning for an Unknown Future. 2-9th July, 2003, Christchurch, New Zealand. Available for purchase or PDF version of paper.

Davies, W. M. (2003), ‘Deconstructing Literature: Using Literature as a Resource for Reasoning', International Federation for the Teaching of English Conference. Transforming Literacies, Changing English: Elsewheres of Potential, 5-8th July, Melbourne, Australia.

Davies, W. M. (2000), ‘Where to Begin?: Problems in Teaching Critical Reasoning to NESB Students' , Sources of Confusion , Language and Academic Skills Conference, La Trobe University, November. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/lasu/conference/davies.doc

Davies, W. M.  (2000),  "Are we Different?: English Language and Inter-Cultural Thought Patterns, 13th Annual English in Australia Conference, Perth, October.

Johnston, C., Schultz, A., McCrohon, M. (2003) An evaluation of the effectiveness of online learning on student learning, attitudes and approaches to study in management accounting at university .The 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and informatics July 27th-30th Orlando Florida Vol 1, pp. 339-343.

Johnston, C. (2000) The effect on learning outcomes of using online learning modules in a principles of macroeconomics subject. 6th Annual EDINEB International Conference Teaching Today the Knowledge of Tomorrow. Bergen , Norway

Morris, G. & Beckett, D. (2004) Learning for/at work: Somali women ‘doing it for themselves’. 3rd International Conference of Researching Work and Learning July 25 – 27, Tampere, Finland (Proceedings Book VI: Theme 8: learning and learners at Work, pp.167-175)

Work in progress

Davies, W.M. , Hirschberg, J., Lye, J., Johnston, C. & McDonald, I. (2005) "Is it your fault? Influences on student evaluations of teaching in tertiary institutions". (PDF, 83Kb)