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.
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
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Projects
- 4 Finished
Futurity Investment Group Parent Report Card Survey Research Project
Southcott, J., Gindidis, M. & Pardy, J.
Futurity Investment Group Limited
23/01/20 → 22/03/20
Project: Research
Research project investigating the state of Community Languages Learning from the perspective of parents
30/05/18 → 29/11/19
Project: Research
Supporting EAL teachers’ pedagogies for digital literacies: evaluation and improvement of the Transmedia Storytelling Toolkit
23/04/18 → 20/12/19
Project: Research
Improving refugee students’ access to digital literacies: integrating transmedia storytelling in an EAL (Year 7) classroom.
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Research Output
Dancing my way through life; embodying cultural diversity across time and space: an autoethnography
Zhang, N., Gindidis, M. & Southcott, J., 2020, In : The Qualitative Report. 25, 1, p. 88-104 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access
File
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Emotional landscapes of living, learning, and teaching: a lens within, from learner to teacher-researcher
Gallardo, M. & Gindidis, M., 2020, In : The Qualitative Report. 25, 2, p. 291-305 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access
File
A comparative investigation of first and fourth year pre-service teachers’ expectations and perceptions of emotional intelligence
Gallardo, M., Tan, H. & Gindidis, M., 2019, In : Australian Journal of Teacher Education. p. 102-114 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Learning digital literacies through experiential digital storytelling in an EAL context: an exploratory study
Tour, E., Gindidis, M. & Newton, A., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
An action research case study of the development of a personalized professional learning project
Rutherford, S., Ludecke, M., Sawatzki, C., Gindidis, M., Tour, K., Marangio, K., Rady, D. & Southcott, J., 16 Apr 2018. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Prizes
Australian Linguistics Society Michael Clyne Award
Gindidis, Maria (Recipient), 2014
Prize: National/international honour
Monash Students Association MSA 2016 - Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award
Gindidis, Maria (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Recipient of the Australian Linguistics Society Michael Clyne Award Best postgraduate research thesi
Gindidis, Maria (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Teaching Excellence Award
Gindidis, Maria (Recipient), 3 Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press / Media
How aged-care facilities can become language labs for preschoolers
Maria Gindidis, Jane Southcott & Sarika Kewalramani
11/07/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature