Dr Anna Du Plessis
After more than 20 years’ experience in teaching across different international systems and curriculum frameworks, I pursued a career in research, undertaking part-time teaching roles and informal post-graduate supervisory appointments.
Teaching
Research Fellow
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
2015 – present
Senior Research Assistant to Ass/Prof Terry Lyons (ARC-project)
Queensland University of Technology
2015
Presentations
Publications
The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), (Bolzano, Italy) 2018.
The Out-of-field phenomenon's effects on education improvement: A trigger for inclusive or exclusive teaching and Learning environments?
Europe Conference on Education Research, ECER: September 2013 (Istanbul, Turkey).
The interrelationship between school leaders’ perceptions and lived experiences of novice out-of-field teachers across two cultures.
Du Plessis, A. (Submitted January 2019/Under Review).
Out-of-Field Teaching and Education Policy: Examining the practice-policy phenomenon. An international micro-education policy “Think Tank”. (Contract due date: 31 January 2019). Singapore: Springer.
Du Plessis, A., Wang, J., Schmidt, A., Cameron, V., Hoang, N., Mertens, L., & Cullinan, M. (2019/Under Review).
New Lenses to Understand Beginning Teacher Workforce Concerns: Developing and Justifying Scale Items for Measuring Beginning Teachers’ and School Leaders’ Perceptions ID _2019_104