Debra Donnelly

ORCID: 0000-0002-3100-3648
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Research Areas
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Digital Storytelling and Education
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Education and Technology Integration
  • Film in Education and Therapy
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Art Education and Development
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Educational Leadership and Innovation
  • Service-Learning and Community Engagement
  • Digital literacy in education
  • Impact of Education Environments
  • Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

University of Newcastle Australia
2014-2024

University of Amsterdam
2023

University of Southern Queensland
2020-2023

Dalarna University
2023

Deakin University
2023

Leiden University
2022

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2022

Zurich University of Teacher Education
2022

Simon Fraser University
2022

Radboud University Nijmegen
2022

Many nations have experienced conflict over the content of their History curriculum, and debates relative importance skills (historical thinking) versus knowledge). Australia is no exception. This paper seeks to contribute discussions historical thinking in education by exploring changing conceptions curricula New South Wales (NSW) (Australia’s most populous state; which evolved from earliest British colony; has an uninterrupted tradition teaching high schools; a rather unique...

10.5965/2175180306112014113 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Revista Tempo e Argumento 2014-05-27

The benefits of micro-teaching (pre-service teachers practicing their teaching skills with small groups peers or students) are well documented. However, the overcrowding teacher education curriculum, in part due to regulatory mandates, led many initial (ITE) programs abandon using micro-teaching. focus this study was understand experiences pre-service who engaging real-time simulation technology as a new form analysis our findings indicated that use mixed-reality learning environments...

10.1080/08878730.2021.1973167 article EN The Teacher Educator 2021-09-10

The Ghanaian senior high-school history curriculum encourages teachers to guide students explore, question and construct historical interpretations, rather than accept established narratives. This study investigates how those conceive implement the intent by exploring their pedagogical reasoning classroom practices. project described in this paper draws from a range of investigative instruments including in-depth interviews, observations, post-lesson interviews teachers’ planning paperwork...

10.14324/herj.17.2.04 article EN cc-by History Education Research Journal 2020-01-01

<ns7:p>In the digitally reliant twenty-first century, exclusivity of printed sources for investigating and interpreting past has been eroded, other modes historical interpretations, such as film, virtual reality simulations online museums, have found a growing audience influence. History education followed suit in Australia, with range multimodal commonly featured history teaching programmes (Donnelly, 2018). Film become an increasingly popular choice teachers strive to engage student...

10.18546/herj.17.1.09 article EN cc-by History Education Research Journal 2020-04-01

Abstract Background The number of people living with chronic health conditions is increasing in Australia. Chronic Disease Management program was introduced to Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) provide a more structured approach managing patients and complex care needs. supports General Practitioners (GP)s claiming for up one general practice management plan (GPMP) team arrangement (TCA) every year the patient five private allied visits. We describe profile participants who claimed GPMPs...

10.1186/s12913-019-4663-3 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2019-11-07

Family history research has become one of the most popular pastimes in world due to digital advances and resulting democratization historical records. For many, family is a heuristic which make empathetic connections with their ancestors they will never (and can never) meet barriers temporal, geographical intergenerational distance. The histories reconstruct re-tell social through micro-historical lens individual. It been claimed that this intimate connection between researchers familial...

10.1080/13642529.2021.1928392 article EN Rethinking History 2021-04-03

History teaching and learning make intellectual demands on both teachers students, requiring them to travel back in time engage with complex issues distant lifestyles. education research advocates the use of approaches that portray as an intellectually engaging subject but application cognitive has not received much attention recent times. This article focuses role psychology argues for a linkage between Piaget's concept development pedagogy. The suggests even though substantive procedural...

10.1080/00377996.2019.1659748 article EN The Social Studies 2019-09-06

Educators have long been aware of the role that schools, and specific school subjects, play in nation-building, including ways which national consciousness is perceived to be shaped within classroom. This makes historical narratives future history teachers mobilise particular interest researchers. paper draws on research from Remembering Australia’s Past (RAP) project conducted with pre-service History University Newcastle, who studied at during period ‘history wars’ (Clark, 2008). Drawing a...

10.52289/hej10.103 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Historical Encounters A journal of historical consciousness historical cultures and history education 2023-03-05

Family history has become a significant contributor to public and social histories exploring (re)discovering the micro narratives of past. Due growing democratisation digital access documents proliferation family media platforms, is now challenging traditional custodianship research moved beyond realms archives, libraries community-based societies occupy an important space in domain. This paper reports on some findings recent study into historical thinking practices Australian historians....

10.3390/genealogy5040102 article EN cc-by Genealogy 2021-12-01

Objectives General practitioner (GP) follow-up after a hospital admission is an important indicator of integrated care. We examined the characteristics patients who saw GP within 2 weeks discharge in Central and Eastern Sydney (CES) region, Australia, relationship between subsequent hospitalisation. Methods This data linkage study used cohort 10 240 people from 45 Up Study resided CES experienced overnight hospitalisation 5 years following recruitment (2007–14). Characteristics participants...

10.1071/ah19285 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Australian Health Review 2020-10-22

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 5.120 (2020 JCR, received June 2021)

10.5334/ijic.s3160 article EN cc-by International Journal of Integrated Care 2019-08-08

Ways of accessing and understanding history have shifted in contemporary society with being repackaged for public consumption a vast array digital technologies. These technologies present historical narratives which aim to simultaneously entertain educate. This research project introduces the term ‘histotainment’ this fusing entertainment. Docudramas are strong example popularity form histotainment. article explores how family docudramas presented as prime time TV entertainment examines...

10.5130/phrj.v27i0.6971 article EN Public history review 2020-08-27

In the preceding decades, rapid technological advancements and increasing democratisation of historical records have been coupled with scientific data from DNA testing, which has revolutionised family history industry. Going beyond traditional archives databases, profiles present nuanced confirmations, puzzles, contradictions generated through this biological lens. Family researchers seek iterative engagements their familial pasts and, in process, amplify contemporary identities. This...

10.3390/genealogy8020075 article EN cc-by Genealogy 2024-06-12
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