Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
School Leadership, Teacher Education and Bilingual Education
New area of reserach: Neuroscience and Learning - The Bilingual Brain
Community Languages and Teacher Training for sustaining and maintaining diverse languages in these contexts.
Maria's research interests are extensive yet synergised under Teacher education in diverse contexts and often marginalised contexts. She has extensive experience in learning second, community and foreign languages.
Her PhD involved researching the lived experience of marginalised teachers in community schools struggling to teach community or heritage language programs. She used phenomenology as a research methodology.
A further recent research area involved a large grant in 2019 surveying the perceptions and needs of parents nationally in Australia with regards to sustaining and maintaining their immigrant languages.
Biography
Dr. Maria Gindidis was a School Reviewer for Monash University and is currently Chief examiner and Coordinator of first and fourth year core units in the Bachelor of Education with Honours Teacher Education degree. She has held positions of State Coordinator of the Bilingual Schools Project, Innovations and Excellence Educator for a Cluster of five Schools, Curriculum Director of a 3 campus school, Futures and Innovations Leader and Acting Assistant Principal of an eastern region large secondary school. She has also held the Middle Schools Portfiolio for the rural Gippsland region. Maria has taught in a number of secondary schools and coordinated bilingual programs in 15 schools across Victoria. At Monash she also offers and delivers workshops in Brain-based learning, Understanding Learning and Teaching, Second Languages Teaching(Primary and Secondary), School Leadership and Bilingual Education.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- School Leadership
- Education and Neuroscience
- Pre-service Teacher Education
- Australian Community Schools
- Community - Heritage Languages
- Second Languages Education
- School Reviewer
- Bilingual Education & Translanguaging
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 7 Finished
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Professional Learning Program for Zhejiang Teacher Educators
Zhang, H. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Yip, S. Y. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gindidis, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Zhong, R. (Project Manager)
11/11/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Consultancy
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Professional Learning Program for Zhejiang Principals
Gindidis, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Zhang, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Yip, S. Y. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Zhong, R. (Project Manager)
21/10/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Transformative leadership through geopolitical crisis: Stories of women and teams working in marginalised communities
Sum, N. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Gindidis, M. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/01/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Futurity Investment Group Parent Report Card Survey Research Project
Southcott, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Gindidis, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Pardy, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Futurity Investment Group Limited
23/01/20 → 22/03/20
Project: Research
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Research project investigating the state of Community Languages Learning from the perspective of parents
Gindidis, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Southcott, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
30/05/18 → 29/11/19
Project: Research
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Integrating dance and language education: a creative response to social diversity and equity in and through a time of crisis
Zhang, N., Gindidis, M. & Southcott, J., 2025, Arts Education and Sustainability in a Time of Crisis. Chang, W. & Park, S.-E. (eds.). 1st ed. Singapore Singapore: Springer, p. 73-88 16 p. (Yearbook of Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development; vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Daughters of the diaspora: using autoethnography to interrogate impositions of cultural conformity
Wake, R. M., Southcott, J. & Gindidis, M., Jun 2024, In: The Qualitative Report. 29, 6, p. 1621-1636 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Double helix tale: an autoethnography about a pre-service teacher's vulnerability in CALD classrooms in a socio-economically disadvantaged school
Ji, S., Yip, S. Y., Gindidis, M. & Saito, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Management in Education. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The sushi train of professional learning: teachers self-driving learning using a social networking website
Woodford, H., Southcott, J. & Gindidis, M., 2024, In: Teacher Development. 28, 4, p. 515-533 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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An exploration of the possible educational opportunities and the challenges at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds occupied by 10–14 year-old students
Bogiannidis, N., Southcott, J. & Gindidis, M., Dec 2023, In: Smart Learning Environments. 10, 1, 21 p., 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Australian Linguistics Society Michael Clyne Award
Gindidis, M. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: National/international honour
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Monash Students Association MSA 2016 - Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award
Gindidis, M. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Recipient of the Australian Linguistics Society Michael Clyne Award Best postgraduate research thesi
Gindidis, M. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Teaching Excellence Award
Gindidis, M. (Recipient), 3 Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 1 Contribution to conference
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International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations 2019
Gindidis, M. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
7 Jun 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press/Media
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The role of research in the professional development of graduate teachers
Cutler, B., Cooper, R. & Gindidis, M.
28/06/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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How aged-care facilities can become language labs for preschoolers
Gindidis, M., Southcott, J. & Kewalramani, S.
11/07/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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