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
Projects
- 4 Finished
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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
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Research project investigating the state of Community Languages Learning from the perspective of parents
30/05/18 → 29/11/19
Project: Research
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Supporting EAL teachers’ pedagogies for digital literacies: evaluation and improvement of the Transmedia Storytelling Toolkit
23/04/18 → 20/12/19
Project: Research
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Improving refugee students’ access to digital literacies: integrating transmedia storytelling in an EAL (Year 7) classroom.
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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An exploration of the lived experiences of a visual art teacher in a smart classroom
Bogiannidis, N., Southcott, J. & Gindidis, M., Jan 2022, In: Contemporary Educational Technology. 14, 1, 15 p., ep329.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Integrating dance and language education: a pedagogical epiphany
Zhang, N., Southcott, J. & Gindidis, M., 2021, In: The Qualitative Report. 26, 10, p. 3112-3126 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Learning digital literacies through experiential digital storytelling in an EAL context: an exploratory study
Tour, E., Gindidis, M. & Newton, A., 2021, In: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 15, 1, p. 26-41 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Mapping a language(s) journey in science; from learning biology to teaching biology: an autoethnography
Fernando, P. S., Gindidis, M. & Cooper, R., 26 Aug 2021, In: The Qualitative Report. 26, 8, p. 2682-2710 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Paradoxes of in-school teacher coaching by outsiders
Ludecke, M., Rutherford, S., Sawatzki, C., Rady, D., Gindidis, M., Marangio, K. & Tour, E., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: The Australian Educational Researcher. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Australian Linguistics Society Michael Clyne Award
Gindidis, Maria (Recipient), 2014
Prize: National/international honour
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Monash Students Association MSA 2016 - Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award
Gindidis, Maria (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, Maria (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Teaching Excellence Award
Gindidis, Maria (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
Maria Gindidis (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
Blake Cutler, Rebecca Cooper & Maria Gindidis
28/06/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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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
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